Posted on 07/17/2020 6:09:13 PM PDT by simpson96
The most ridiculous part is going from Antebellum to A. I mean everyone knows what the A stands for. Not that there’s anything wrong with the word. Bad things have happened throughout human existence. But if you want to distance yourself, this isn’t how you do it.
If she’s been using it before they were ever formed, and they got a registration for a trademark which they never used {sometimes called a “defensive registration” to keep someone else from getting a mark too similar to yours] and they sat back and did nothing while she used it, they may not have any rights against the singer, even though they registered it.
The way trademark law works, you can’t just file a million registrations with the trademark office and then never use them in trade, and hope to keep ownership of them when a bona fide user comes along. Especially one who’s been around for 20 years, even before you existed.
Because trademarks rights are all about use.
Effin A
Real, observed RACISM! And the MSM is taking the side of the bigoted white chicks..
Lady Antebellum should rename itself Charday Hill for Charles, Dave, and Hillary.
I am a little surprised Lady Antebellum hasn’t figured out this is a losing battle for them, or had someone tell them to move on.
Rich white singers going after a poor black singer? Wow.
- or Lady BLM -
Exactly! Would have been less offensive to just keep the original name at this point. They are digging themselves into a hole.
“..., citing “necessary changes to practice antiracism”...”
And then they steamroller over a black woman.
Here’s a good name: Lady Antebellum. Just admit defeat and announce that you’re going back to the original band name. Should have never changed the name to begin with.
They want to start a war over the name, then how about Lady Belligerant or Lady Bellicose, although someone suggested Lady Annabelle which I think is lovely and even sounds a lot like the original.
Pass the popcorn.
In their efforts to prove how ‘woke’ they are, hownon racist they are, they are actually doing real damage to a black woman.
How typical (historically) for a leftist. From the Great Society programs, education reform, desegregation, busing, to gun control to ‘defunding police”, it’s the black man who suffers from liberal’s efforts to help the black man.
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