The lesbo newswire
It sez here that
The Wyrd Sisters, a Winnipeg-based lesbian folk singing trio with some great tunes (and some meow on-stage chatter, I discovered at a gig a few years ago -- who was sleeping with...?), is trying to stop the distribution of the new boy wizard flick.
"The group is also suing Warner Brothers and three famous British musicians over a scene in
'Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire' that allegedly depicts a band called The Wyrd Sisters playing on a stage. 'The name of the band is threatened by Warner Brothers actions,' Kimberly Townley-Smith, lawyer for The Wyrd Sisters, said Monday. 'If everybody knows Harry Potter's Wyrd Sisters, we can't go out and find new fans because people are going to see us and go, well who are you? Some people are going to think we're ripping them off.'
"Townley-Smith has filed a statement of claim seeking $40 million plus punitive damages from three divisions of the Warner Brothers empire, singer Jarvis Cocker of the British band Pulp, and Johnny Greenwood and Phil Selway of Radiohead. Townley-Smith said she plans to file more documents this week, asking for a court injunction against any public display of the movie in Canada."
Apparently, "The problem seems to have arisen from the book on which the movie is based, which refers to a fictitious Weird Sisters band."