Alan Parsons awarded nearly $5 million in dispute with former manager

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A US court last week awarded Alan Parsons nearly $5 million in damages as part of a dispute with his former manager, John Regna of World Entertainment Associates Of America.

Judge and jury together found that Regna was liable for trademark infringement, unfair competition and breach of fiduciary duty, among other things.Having first build his reputation via studio work with the likes of The Beatles and Pink Floyd, Parsons enjoyed success in the 1970s and 1980s through his creative partnership with the late Eric Woolfson.

That collaboration used the moniker The Alan Parsons Project. In more recent times Parsons has worked on a solo basis, and between 2009 and 2018 his projects were managed by Regna and WEAA.Parsons and Regna ultimately stopped working together due to, according to Parsons, “Regna’s erratic and intolerable behaviour”.

After they split, Regna put together a live show featuring session musicians who worked with the Alan Parsons Project back in the day and then started promoting that show using variations of Parsons’ brand, including “The Project, the original voice, original musicians of The Alan Parsons Project & Friends”.That unsurprisingly pissed off Parsons who, after initially going legal in Spain to try to stop a show Regna was organising there, sued his former manager through the federal courts in Florida in January 2020.