Bauman testified before the House Public Policy Committee on Senate Bill 192, a truth-in-music advertising bill. The measure would prohibit a person from posing as another performer in a live musical performance or in advertising. A violation would be a Class A infraction.
Bauman has appeared before lawmakers across the country in support of similar state measures, arguing that singing groups that appropriate the names of famous bands of the 1950s and 1960s are committing what amounts to musical identity theft.
Absent such laws, he argues, fake bands have cashed in by posing in live performances as mega-groups of the past such as the Temptations, the Platters and the Coasters.
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