Dispute over band name rights

A few days before the Belgrade concert, Pekinška Patka’s co-founding member and first lineup guitarist Sreten Kovačević put out a press release relaying his “consternation” at the band’s reunion, which he referred to as “misuse of the [Pekinška Patka] name and legacy by a group of individuals [i.e. Čonkić, Bulatović, Vukmanović, and Radić] that have little to nothing to do with the band”. Adding that “Pekinška Patka finished its concert activity for good at Exit 2008”, he further stated his own credentials to stem from being the “author and co-author of songs from Plitka poezija , the only authentic Pekinška Patka album” before listing each track’s submission code at SOKOJ [ sh ] (Yugoslav Composers’ Copyright Agency). Kovačević’s press release ends by once again dismissing Čonkić, Bulatović, Vukmanović, and Radić as a “random collection of individuals that decided to book a gathering under the Pekinška Patka name” before threatening legal action should they continue to do so. In response, the band posted a press release of their own on their record label Long Play’s official site, disputing Kovačević’s claims and attributing them to “either [his] faulty memory or [his] deliberate intent to spread mistruths regarding Pekinška Patka’s origins and subsequent work”. The release goes on to state that Čonkić is the one who came up with the band’s name while further claiming that out of the 16 songs on the first album, Čonkić wrote 5 of them, with Kovačević adding 3 songs, 5 songs being co-authored between the two, and 3 more being covers. It concludes with a claim that back in July 1980, without informing Čonkić and the rest of the bend, Kovačević went to SOKOJ and unilaterally submitted faulty information as each of the original 13 songs (including Čonkić’s 5) being co-authored by Čonkić and Kovačević despite even the album sleeve stating otherwise based on the information submitted by the band to their record label, Jugoton.