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Neil Young Gary Miller/Getty Images Luxury fashion brand Chrome Hearts has dropped their copyright infringement lawsuit against Neil Young and his similarly named backing band.
In September 2025 —a few months after Young and his then-new band released their first album Talkin to the Trees — Chrome Hearts (the brand) sued Young and the Chrome Hearts (the band), claiming they never “granted a license” or gave Young “any form of permission to use intellectual property belonging to Chrome Hearts”; the fashion company has existed since the late Eighties, while Young branded the band in late 2024.
In not only using the name Chrome Hearts, but by making and selling merchandise emblazoned with the name “Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts,” the brand said Young and his bandmates would “likely cause confusion” in the marketplace.
