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Post by Non Banjoble Tokens on Jun 24, 2022 0:52:08 GMT -5
Ruby should start going by Ruby Thyme and the announcers can be like IT"S RUBY TIME!!! She can jump through a giant clock and wear a belt that looks like a big watch.
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Post by EvenBaldobombHasAJob on Jun 24, 2022 8:51:36 GMT -5
WWE hasn't really come down much on people using similar names because there's only so much you can do when someone changes their names. You can't pursue someone for having a stage name where the last name is Black, and 'Alistair' and 'Malakai' might be thematically similar, but they are super distinct names as far as the IP courts would be concerned. It's just not worth trying to chase litigation on those because they won't really win, and the cost of doing so with how many people they've cut lately would be an absolute misery. Very specifically, WWE owns the trademark for 'Isaiah "Swerve" Scott'. They can nail that down. If he ran around as Swerve Scott? Absolutely it'd be a problem. But he's not. He's "Swerve" Strickland. Shane Strickland is his legal name, he has plenty of proof he's gone by Swerve before WWE, and WWE didn't nail down the use of Swerve itself as a nickname. They nailed down 'Isaiah "Swerve" Scott'. WWE doesn't really have the authority within what they have to go for that, and they'd have a hard time proving that Swerve Strickland and 'Isaiah "Swerve" Scott' are so similar that it infringes on what they own. It'd be wasted resources and it'd give WWE an actually kinda bad name. It opens WWE up to a whole lot of problems and possibilities in case anyone decides to bite back. IPs are a funny thing because you do have to defend them to keep them, but if you're going to defend them too frivolously, you're going to piss off judges and risk ending up fined or having your lawyers sanctioned. It's not worth chasing people down because of an epithet they don't have total ownership of because that's a good way to hurt yourself down the line if you're perceived as lashing out at just anyone and everyone. Got to pick your battles. Yeah honestly if WWE chased down everyone with a ring name that was remotely similar to one they had a trademark on they'd inevitably end up like that idiot who thought he had the trademark on the word "Edge" for literally everything ever and tried to sue Sony over Mirror's Edge.
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Post by Feyrhausen on Jun 24, 2022 9:00:14 GMT -5
WWE hasn't really come down much on people using similar names because there's only so much you can do when someone changes their names. You can't pursue someone for having a stage name where the last name is Black, and 'Alistair' and 'Malakai' might be thematically similar, but they are super distinct names as far as the IP courts would be concerned. It's just not worth trying to chase litigation on those because they won't really win, and the cost of doing so with how many people they've cut lately would be an absolute misery. Very specifically, WWE owns the trademark for 'Isaiah "Swerve" Scott'. They can nail that down. If he ran around as Swerve Scott? Absolutely it'd be a problem. But he's not. He's "Swerve" Strickland. Shane Strickland is his legal name, he has plenty of proof he's gone by Swerve before WWE, and WWE didn't nail down the use of Swerve itself as a nickname. They nailed down 'Isaiah "Swerve" Scott'. WWE doesn't really have the authority within what they have to go for that, and they'd have a hard time proving that Swerve Strickland and 'Isaiah "Swerve" Scott' are so similar that it infringes on what they own. It'd be wasted resources and it'd give WWE an actually kinda bad name. It opens WWE up to a whole lot of problems and possibilities in case anyone decides to bite back. IPs are a funny thing because you do have to defend them to keep them, but if you're going to defend them too frivolously, you're going to piss off judges and risk ending up fined or having your lawyers sanctioned. It's not worth chasing people down because of an epithet they don't have total ownership of because that's a good way to hurt yourself down the line if you're perceived as lashing out at just anyone and everyone. Got to pick your battles. Yeah honestly if WWE chased down everyone with a ring name that was remotely similar to one they had a trademark on they'd inevitably end up like that idiot who thought he had the trademark on the word "Edge" for literally everything ever and tried to sue Sony over Mirror's Edge. Sometimes the bullies win those battles. In the mid 90s an RPG came out called Nightspawn. Todd McFarlane threatened to sue and they had to change the name. But hey a few years later he got his from Tony Twist. So karma.
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Post by EvenBaldobombHasAJob on Jun 24, 2022 9:19:45 GMT -5
Yeah honestly if WWE chased down everyone with a ring name that was remotely similar to one they had a trademark on they'd inevitably end up like that idiot who thought he had the trademark on the word "Edge" for literally everything ever and tried to sue Sony over Mirror's Edge. Sometimes the bullies win those battles. In the mid 90s an RPG came out called Nightspawn. Todd McFarlane threatened to sue and they had to change the name. But hey a few years later he got his from Tony Twist. So karma. That one still makes me scratch my head because Tony Twist was a real person and he explicitly said he took the name from him. What the hell did he think was going to happen?
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Post by "Gizzark" Mike Wronglevenay on Jun 24, 2022 9:52:47 GMT -5
I want someone whose WWE name was like John Smith to hit the indies as 'Legally Distinct' John Smyth
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Post by Feyrhausen on Jun 24, 2022 11:14:31 GMT -5
Sometimes the bullies win those battles. In the mid 90s an RPG came out called Nightspawn. Todd McFarlane threatened to sue and they had to change the name. But hey a few years later he got his from Tony Twist. So karma. That one still makes me scratch my head because Tony Twist was a real person and he explicitly said he took the name from him. What the hell did he think was going to happen? I mean honestly the hockey player was being stupid. So you have a mobster named after you in a comic. Who cares. Suing over that is BS. But hey McFarlane wanted throw his weight around thinking he should own the word spawn. Karma hit him good.
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Post by Ronny Rayguns Is All Elite on Jun 24, 2022 16:22:47 GMT -5
Sidenote I'm so glad Billy Gunn got the ownership to his name cause I don't think there's even been a name copyright fiasco as bad (other than the Cody thing lol) as when he went to TNA as The New Age Outlaw AKA The Outlaw AKA You Know Who That Is for something like a month or two. Dude literally had to wear a shirt that said YOU ALREADY KNOW WHO I AM cause they couldn't say his name. All that trouble to be Kip James. Never forget It would have been hilarious if they got hit with a Cease and desist from Trent Reznor
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Post by A Platypus Rave on Jun 24, 2022 17:32:43 GMT -5
That one still makes me scratch my head because Tony Twist was a real person and he explicitly said he took the name from him. What the hell did he think was going to happen? I mean honestly the hockey player was being stupid. So you have a mobster named after you in a comic. Who cares. Suing over that is BS. But hey McFarlane wanted throw his weight around thinking he should own the word spawn. Karma hit him good. Then there was the time that he designed a character with Stan Lee and Rob Liefeld for charity. Stan provided the name "Overkill" and let the other two do the work... and by the other two I mean Rob basically designed it on his own while Todd drew a logo... and then a chain and maybe a shoulderpad. Then a few months later OVERTKILL showed up in Spawn comics and Todd was listed as the sole creator even though it was blatantly Rob's design colored Blue.
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