This month, Toho ordered Arizona rock band Asshole Godzilla to forfeit its internet domain and stop using Godzilla in its name. "We gotta change the name of our band, because we're so scary hard that Godzilla and the people surrounding Godzilla want nothing to do with us," lead vocalist Nick Danger writes on assholegodzilla.com, which is being shuttered.
Toho was only the second lawsuit against Netscape that was my fault! Oh, the good old days...
I'm so glad. The domain parking stuff looks soo much better (I assume).
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There was a folksinger who used the name Donald Duck till Disney complained. He changed it to Duck Donald.
Johnny Cash apparently didn't have a problem with Johnny Paycheck.
Some band names which seem not to have had legal problems: The Undead Kennedy's. The Dead Milkmen. The Grateful Undead. The Ungrateful Dead.
I wonder if they'll go after Bongzilla next...
What was the first!?
And the third?
I wonder if "Nick Danger" is an intentional reference...