HW: Brock's Destruction of Hawkwind Reputation

[DRider]

Here's even more proof to drive it home......

Jason Newsted is being sued for trademark infringement by the Dallas band
Echo Drain

Here's a link to one of the many articles:

http://www.antimusic.com/news/2002/june/item26.shtml

I did not read all of this one, but I remember reading it on Billboard.com.
Seems like Jason actually bought the rights to Echo Drain's website, so that
if anyone typed Echo Drain.com his band's website (Echobrain)would actually
load on the person's PC. If I remember correctly....

Seems like that was pretty ruthless of him. The 2 names are quite a bit more
differnt thanxHawkwind and Hawkwind.....

Echo Drain vs. Echobrain

Hmmmm....

D
-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Pearson [mailto:jasret at MINDSPRING.COM]
Sent: Monday, August 12, 2002 9:24 PM
Subject: Re: HW: Brock's Destruction of Hawkwind Reputation


On Mon, 12 Aug 2002 13:19:58 +0100, M Holmes <fofp at HOLYROOD.ED.AC.UK> wrote:
>There are already legal precedents in such brand wars. Slight variations
>on spelling have been ruled as brand-stealing.

I don't know about single-letter variations, as in this particular case,
but there are numerous instances, at least in the USA, where two-letter
variations of a band name were sufficient to be ruled as not "brand-
stealing".  Two examples would be "yazOO" and "mission UK".

    -Doug
     jasret at mindspring.com