What do you do if someone steals your DJ/Producer name?

Dead Rats · Post by **Dead Rats** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 4:43 pm

Find out the name of the geezers mum, rename yourself that, and add "I fisted" at the beginning of it.

No better way to destroy a mans morale than getting his mum involved. He'll let you have Rusha back in an instant.

jolly wailer · Post by **jolly wailer** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 4:46 pm

just put a (prk) behind it

adam_misst · Post by **adam_misst** » Wed Apr 15, 2009 4:54 pm

Plastician wrote:Drop Richie Hawtin an email he might give you a few pointers

Haha...i'm guessing this why you changed from Plasticman to Plastician?

grime suspect · Post by **grime suspect** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 9:09 pm

Dead Rats wrote:Find out the name of the geezers mum, rename yourself that, and add "I fisted" at the beginning of it.

No better way to destroy a mans morale than getting his mum involved. He'll let you have Rusha back in an instant.

lol

quidz · Post by **quidz** » Thu Apr 16, 2009 9:51 pm

The bottom line is here, is that you werent the first to pick that name and you wont be the last. No name is original, and so you have got two options here:

Find out where he lives, or go to see him at one of his gigs, approach him with a joint in hand and offer him a smoke, laugh off the fact that you both have the same dj name and chances are you will get along since you picked the same name.

Or, graffiti mentality wise, prove you a more worthy of the name than he is, do bigger and better things, gather more fame than he does, potentially "beef" him if necessary and then the better man will come out on top.

rusha101 · Post by **rusha101** » Thu Dec 03, 2009 5:58 pm

I hope this isn't in reference to me. I am a drum n bass DJ called Rusha but have been using the name for production since about 2002. I hope this aint me otherwise we have another DJ rusha too? haha

♫♪♫ · Post by **♫♪♫** » Thu Dec 03, 2009 6:28 pm

Oh snap!

DRTY · Post by **DRTY** » Thu Dec 03, 2009 6:30 pm

Unless you have trademarked it, then legaly you can do nothing.

Just ask, show him old flyers, if he has any sense he'll change it, as it'd be in his interest to do so

ransom · Post by **ransom** » Thu Dec 03, 2009 6:57 pm

I just started going by my first name + my DJ name (which is from 1997, got fliers from 1998 with it) since most people in my area were calling me that for years. I think part of the catalyst though was in 2000 or so when "Bushpig" on Super Charged came out and I saw there was a UK DJ with the same DJ name, and then started seeing it on Fabric promos and then found out there was a DJ in Australia with the same name, who was a DMC battle DJ.

Never heard from either of them about my own name, but someone contacted me about playing in Melbourne, but we realized he wanted the Australia DJ and not me. I do have one or two old tunes that show up on Beatport mixed up with Joe Ransom's "Bush Pig" though.

CollisionCourse · Post by **CollisionCourse** » Thu Dec 03, 2009 7:18 pm

i dread to think how many dj's/producers have the name "Collision"
suppose it doesnt matter cus ill never be famous...

misk · Post by **misk** » Thu Dec 03, 2009 7:28 pm

im not sure. i'd ask arveene and misk about it though...

http://www.myspace.com/arveeneandmiskmusic

i was there first, too.

kidshuffle · Post by **kidshuffle** » Thu Dec 03, 2009 7:29 pm

plastician wrote:Drop Richie Hawtin an email he might give you a few pointers

ahahahaha fuck

gravious · Post by **gravious** » Thu Dec 03, 2009 7:34 pm

If you are intersted the name Forensic/Forensix now appears to be free...

(/digging up past grievances blog)

dutty_switch · Post by **dutty_switch** » Thu Dec 03, 2009 8:07 pm

Bust out tha leng and buck boy off da ting? Maybe?

DRAPES!

kidshuffle · Post by **kidshuffle** » Thu Dec 03, 2009 8:18 pm

dutty_switch wrote:Bust out tha leng and buck boy off da ting? Maybe?

DRAPES!

get out the car!

prisoner · Post by **prisoner** » Thu Dec 03, 2009 8:25 pm

too many n00bs on here.

ur supposed to just add MCR to the end of ur name.

edit: Gravious beat me too it! lol

jolly wailer · Post by **jolly wailer** » Thu Dec 03, 2009 8:28 pm

yeah I say buck boy off da ting

♫♪♫ · Post by **♫♪♫** » Thu Dec 03, 2009 8:30 pm

Just on Discogs.com, there's about 50 billion people/bands using the name Autopilot. A few of them making electronica/dance too.

Doesn't particularly bother me.

An anecdote though, when I first started my Sub FM show, I called it "The Deep End" and someone PMed me saying they already had a show with that name and I changed it to avoid confusion...no problem. It can't hurt you to track down the person and ask.

q23 · Post by **q23** » Thu Dec 03, 2009 8:35 pm

Legally, you cannot copyright a name.

That will be all.

How many DJQs are out there? I know of quite a few and I am sure I dont know them all.

Bastardizations of Ruckus Rukkus Rawkus etc...

Dmitri from....where again? Deelite, New York, Paris?....

Speedy? Theres got to be one per country at least.

DJ Paul - I could throw a party with 12 different DJ Pauls.

You get the picture......

dj_yeoku · Post by **dj_yeoku** » Thu Dec 03, 2009 8:39 pm

either smash him up, or go civil, either way u cant do nothing

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