To get at the Wing in a different way, Cohen filed the petition to cancel their servicemark: "Tony" Awards. According to Cohen's legal counsel, Pollack & Greene, LLP, the judge took the Wing out of that case because "they were not a signatory to the agreement with Cohen." The League's part of the arbitration is still pending. Since February, Cohen (or, more accurately, his Tony production company: Bentwood Television Corporation) has been in arbitration with the League and the Wing on this issue. (After Cohen's 20-year deal with TAP, the League and Wing did not renew their partnership with him.)Ĭohen, who believes the 1967-86 Tony footage is his to do with as he pleases, has long battled the Wing and League on this issue and feels they've squelched potential deals by insisting that they, too, be asked for consent to use the footage pr even turning buyers away. However, Tony co-producers TAP Productions (aka a teaming of The American Theater Wing and the League of American Theaters and Producers) feel they are joint owners of the material, and therefore entitled to consent in any deals made, not to mention a share of any proceeds from sale or lease of footage. Last seen Off-Broadway in his autobiographical monologue Star Billing, Cohen, the creator and producer of 20 Tony Awards television specials (1967-86), feels he has sole proprietorship of the footage from those broadcasts.
Theatrical producer Alexander Cohen has launched another legal missile at his former Tony co-producers, filing on July 9 a petition to cancel the Wing's Tony trademark.
If you thought the nixing of a musical number from It Ain't Nothin' But The Blues was the only headache producers of the Tony Awards have been facing, think again.
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