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Band Names: Lawyers Are So NOT Rock 'N' Roll Edition

Posted at 6:19 AM on September 5, 2006 by Hans Eisenbeis

Speaking of band names, please take note of this week's Weekly Download. It's the digital deutschman, Radio Citizen. RC has a new album arriving in just one week, but in the run-up we noticed that Niko Schable recently blogged about the subtle shift in name from "Radio City" to "Radio Citizen."

why is this project called radio citizen and not radio city anymore? you know the cultural world gets divided into claims. mcdonalds gets i love it, canon you can and volkswagen is trying to trademark the volks, which simply means "of the people". no wonder radio city had already been occupied....

It seems someone pressed the trademark issue, and Schabel retreated. (So rattled, he forgot to capitalize!) Which got us thinking about other bands who have been served legal notice, and lost the battle to have a cool name--because someone else already held claim to it, and set a pack of lawyers on them. Remember when Tilt-A-Whirl got a face full of cease-and-desist, and became Arcwelder? How about when the US Olympic Committee took their ball and went home, leaving the Olympic Hopefuls merely hopeful?

Send along your own fond, litigious memories--and tell us why Hüsker Dü never got sued by Milton Bradley--in the comments. (There is a correct answer, by the way!)

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