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Feud between band and its record label over ownership of Web site reflects a growing battlefront in the industry

InterviewNovember 3, 1999Los Angeles Times

Goo Goo Dolls may be a regrettable choice for a band name--even the members of the rock trio have admitted that--but it’s apparently worth fighting for as a brand name. The group from Buffalo, N.Y., which hit it big with the song “Iris” in 1998, is now fighting its label, Warner Bros. Records, for control of the https://googoodolls.com Web site, and the feud recently prompted the band to set up a competing “official” site at https://googoodolls.org that is nearly identical in the nature of its content. That conflict is hardly unique. Metallica, the Offspring

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