A popular children’s- music group called Hot Peas ’N Butter is steamed that a similarly named creative- music agency won’t stop operating under a trademarked moniker.
Butter says in a new Brooklyn federal-court lawsuit that it has tried outside court to settle the beef with Hot Peas & Butta, a Philadelphia-based music-production and promotion company, over the alleged trademark infringement.
But after Butter served the company with a cease-and-desist letter, a lawyer for Butta was “flippant and dismissive” and said the company had no connection with music, the suit says.
Butta didn’t respond to a message seeking comment.
Jeffrey Sonnabend, a lawyer who represents Butter, said, “There’s no need to be dragging these things to court when my client’s rights are pretty clear.”
