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Using Your Own Name May Be Infringement, Part 2
phillymjs writes "We're probably all familiar with Uzi Nissan and his fight to keep his nissan.com domain name from the clutches of Nissan Motors. Well, more same-name idiocy came to light today-- the Atlanta Journal-Constitution is reporting that their staff music writer, Bill Wyman, has received a cease-and-desist letter from lawyers representing former Rolling Stone Bill Wyman, for "a seriously misleading and, arguably, an intentional, unauthorized exploitation of our client's name, goodwill and publicity value."
It should be interesting to see how this one plays out, because Bill Wyman the musician was born William George Perks and changed his name to Bill Wyman in 1964. Journalist Bill Wyman was given that name at his birth in 1961."
...a good start...
Why must we be so sue-happy that respectful citizens cant even enjoy their own names without some over-paid copyright lawyer hearing the crinkling of his clients not-so-hard earned money.
It's obvious Bill Wyman is going to win this case.
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. It's just that yours is stupid.
I lucked out. Imagine my last name was McDonald? I wouldn't be able to refer to anything in the possessive!
The global economy is a great thing until you feel it locally.
My Native American birth name was "Komhand Duer Tawk-Hoe" but I had to change it in shame in 1999. Everyone kept joshing me about whether I 'remembered the last time that was posted' and whether I could 'spell my own name'.
Very funny.
Bill Wyman the writer should sue Bill Wyman the Stone for infringing on his name for the past 38 years, and should seek damages of about $50 million, claiming that William George Perks made a ton of money off of the Bill Wyman name that he stole.
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SERENITY NOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Keith Richard sends out Cease and Desist notices to cadavars because folks confuse them for him.
deserve's got nothing to do with it...
Wow, that could get messy really quickly...
There's no wrong way, to eat a Rhesus...
Is that an accurate description?
unique URLs based on DNA code
Identical Twins might object.
And let's be blunt, a 650 meg URL consisting of four characters in endless patterns is not an easy thing to rememeber.
"Live Free or Die." Don't like it? Then keep out of the USA
that the lawyers are also named Bill Wyman?
Sigs are bad for your health.
what about the Uzi? This guy is flagrantly infringing on IMI's trademarks!
... to hear the verdict:
All your bass are belong to us!!
Should invading one's peaceful neighbours be opposed, or rewarded with trade deals?
Last name?
/runs and turns off Slashdot modding powers.
Nielsen.
Mental note. Rate nothing. Ever.
From imdb.com:
It's one thing when Nissan sues you, yeah, I could deal with that. What are they going to do, run me over with a Nissan?
;)
But when the Uzi people finally get wind of this fellow, you can bet he'll change his tune.
It's just not wise to argue with Israelis armed with machine guns with a beef over territory or ownership rights.
You see? You see? Your stupid minds! Stupid! Stupid!
You better watch what you say, or I might sue you for slander. I am not insensitive....my toe hurts today.
They stuck me in an institution, said it was the only solution, to...protect me from the enemy, myself
Actually, it's probably the firm of Ben Dover and Phil McCavity (say it fast)
And then Marklar will marklar the marklar, and in the end the marklar will all go to marklar in a marklar!!
These damn marklar's.....
No I didnt spell check this post...
I heard it was Phil McCrackin
FUD? Oh, great, now Warner Brothers will get in the act. This could be a vewwy nasty case.
Sigs are bad for your health.
The answer is simple.
1.Name all children with a unique ID
like RTDSG4232342
and don't allow their children to have kids named
RTDSG4232342 Jr.
2.Reassign all adults new names as well.
3. ???
4. Profit
Saskboy's blog is good. 9 out of 10 dentists agree.
Well, you could cancel any other magazine that you do subscribe to, considering that they would be as relevant to this topic as Rolling Stone.
My beliefs do not require that you agree with them.
I'm free riding on Bill Wyman the musician's commercial goodwill in order to further the commercial interests of bill_wyman the Slashdot user and get more mod points.
The musical Wyman wants the columnist wyman to put a discalimer on everything he writes that he is in fact NOT the musical Wyman!
Sounds reasonable... Provided, of course, that every time Bill Wyman of the Rolling Stones plays, he should be required to add a disclaimer that he is not Bill Wyman the journalist.
FreeSpeech.org
should change his last name to "Datsun" to make them happy.
Dewey, Cheatham, & Howe seems more likely to have taken up this case...
20 January 2017: the End of an Error.
I am going to change my name to Slash Dot and sue the hell out of someone. heh.
1. Change Name
2. Sue Someone (How we missed this one for so long is beyond me.)
3. Profit!
g
i actually had a student in one of my classes in high school named Shi-Thead, and on our Student ID cards they couldnt put hyphens, so it did come out Shithead on all her school paperwork.
Pryor Cashman Sherman and Flynn LLP are being sued by Richard Pryor, Pat Cashman, William Tecumseh Sherman, and Laura Flynn-Boyle for sullying their fine names with such actions.
And my name is Michael Bolton, and I refuse to change it. I had that name before he ever became famous.
(paraphrased, sorry, I don't remember the exact quote)
-Space for rent
Duff man does not approve. ;)
Tell the former rolling stone to shut up and get back to gathering moss!
I saw the McDonald story on 60 minutes or something a couple years back. He really is "the" McDonald of Scotland with centuries old royal proclomations and whatnot to back it up.
Though, every time I see/hear it I can't help hearing:
"THERE CAN BE ONLY ONE!!!!"
I don't need no instructions to know how to rock!!!!
"Why should I change, he's the one who sucks!"
-Office Space
Could anyone here help me win a lawsuit against a German city?
--Mike Hamburg
(Aside: yes, the name comes from that city; my ancesters were "Hamburger"s and wisely decided to change their names to avoid a lawsuit by MacDonald's. Or maybe just to avoid being made fun of.)
I hereby place the above post in the public domain.
"Bill Wyman is hereby ordered to pay $50,000 in damages."
.. wha?
Plantif and defandant in unison: YES!
"Your superior intellect is no match for our puny weapons!"
Just think about the troubles that George Foreman has coming...
Unfortunately the sharks will just leave the lawyer alone. It's professional courtesy.
All editorial writers ever do is come down from the hill after the battle is over and shoot the wounded.
This morning, I heard a prank phone call from a local radio station to a guy named Harry Potter. They were pretending to be lawyers trying to cather up as many Harry Potters as they could for a class action suit against Warner Brothers.
Of course it was all a joke, and the person named Harry Potter seemed to be okay with the fact that his name was now something of a household word. His wife even found great amusement in telling everyone her husband was indeed Harry Potter.
It was mentioned that Harry Potter is quite a common name, and a web-search for people named Harry Potter would turn up quite a few people.
Just something to think about.
For the longest time I thought the name was "Hairy Potter" and it was about a hippy.
"Everything you know is wrong. (And stupid.)"
Moderation Totals: Wrong=2, Stupid=3, Total=5.
My friends name is Russell Nash. Now after reading this article i told him he should probably hide or start the battle now .. since well u know .. "There can be only one"
dvNuLL
The guy who was born Bill Wyman should change his name to Perks... ;-)
In other news, McDonnell, world-renowned maker of fighter jets including the F-15, has decided to sue McDonalds, world-renown maker of fried heart-attack hamburgers.
McDonnell is apparently worried that the US Government, intending to go to McDonnell.com and buy an airplane, will instead go to McDonalds.com and buy a Happy Meal.
"Naturally," a McDonnell representative said, "We don't want McDonalds taking advantage of our good name and making 15 million dollars on a Happy Meal because the US Government got confused."
McDonald's has filed counter-suite, claiming that a family wanting to buy a happy-meal for $4.50 will become confused, walk into McDonnell Corp and buy a F-15 for $4.5 Million.
"Obviously," a McDonald's spokesperson said, "there is a great potential for consumer-confusion here. We just want to make sure that consumers intending to buy a Happy Meal will buy a Happy Meal and not an air-plane."
social sciences can never use experience to verify their statemen
Do you think of Highlander when you hear any Scottish name?
I'm descended from Highlanders. Clan MacDonald at Glencoe to be precise. I'm personally offended that you think that the Scottish Highlanders are of the same sort of spineless, sniveling, whining douchebags whose culture of victim worship obviously inspired your post.
You may rest very comfortably assured that if anyone actually says anything which remotely offends us, we'll have thrown a telephone pole at him long before you come along in our defense.
"[...] It's slander when it's spoken. In print, it's libel."
People will pass up steak once a week, for crap every day.