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What do you do if someone steals your DJ/Producer name?
Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2009 5:16 pm
by rusha
from what ive learned there is a dj from london who has recently changed his name to the same as mine, i keep hearing bookings for nights with him on but he only changed his name early 2009, and i been using Rusha for like 2 years now,so in theory can i do him for liable or slander or something?
just the thing of if he plays a shit night or like smacks Dj hype or summat thats my rep right there.
what should i do?
any serious advice would be good
Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2009 5:19 pm
by miscreant
send him a message on myspace or something?
i'm sure his pride of knowing someone else had his name before him would take over.
Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2009 5:28 pm
by surface_tension
Make a request, show him a flyer you've been on before him, or where you've used the name. Once you use it, it's yours if you were the first. Ask yourself if you were the first though, Rusha could be a common DJ name maybe...
After asking, Demand.
If that doesn't work, and it's worth it, pursue legal action.
Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2009 5:28 pm
by irishgashflaps
Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2009 5:32 pm
by basra
irishgashflaps wrote:
ha ha ha
Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2009 5:33 pm
by chester perry
Do it the Old Skool graff way, pop round his house tooled up and make that name yours.
Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2009 5:37 pm
by dreadnort
Chester Perry wrote:Do it the Old Skool graff way, pop round his house tooled up and make that name yours.
Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2009 6:07 pm
by s.h.smoke
ask nicely... no legal recourse for you unless you have the name trademarked
Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2009 6:15 pm
by merkin
Battle him for the name - I suggest sum old Bounty Killa & Smif n Wessun tunes....
Posted: Tue Apr 14, 2009 6:21 pm
by caos
think how many khaos' chaos' ka0s' kayos' there are including myself
its not really a problem, most people know the difference, considering i dont currently dj aswell, but i am starting to do a few things under another name too
Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2009 12:20 am
by MARCHMELLOW
Merkin wrote:Battle him for the name - I suggest sum old Bounty Killa & Smif n Wessun tunes....
yeeaaahhh!! just organise a night and ask him to battle against you for the name! thats actually a well good idea.
Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2009 12:21 am
by ST100
off topic real quick:
are you the Rusha that made 'Slimy dub'?
nice fucking work man
Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2009 12:53 am
by deadly_habit
come up with something more original next time?
Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2009 12:56 am
by pidge
Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2009 12:57 am
by waaaae9
theres a jungle dj called 'rusher' who still plays out
Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2009 1:06 am
by abZ
Deadly Habit wrote:come up with something more original next time?
Haha yeah. My name from the 90's was pretty obvious and there was a dj from just about every genre using the name. Had to let it go. Not that my current name is original but at least it isn't taken by everyone already.
Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2009 1:08 am
by deadly_habit
abZ wrote:Deadly Habit wrote:come up with something more original next time?
Haha yeah. My name from the 90's was pretty obvious and there was a dj from just about every genre using the name. Had to let it go. Not that my current name is original but at least it isn't taken by everyone already.
ditto
Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2009 1:18 am
by kingcannibal
I have experience of this.... the story is all pretty longwinded as these things tend to be, but i'll do my best to keep this short and to the point.
I was using the name 'ZILLA' (
http://www.discogs.com/artist/Zilla?noanv=1 )for deejaying / recording and had a few things out, some of them on pretty decent labels too. I was in the early stages of talking to a U.S label about putting an EP and the owner mentioned a band over in the states who had started using the name, they were getting a bit of press in certain areas and the chap was now worried about the confusion releasing the Ep in the current situation would lead too.
After looking in what they were about (and noticing a HELL of a load of things i'd done contributed to them... including like iTunes) I tried contacting them. They were really flakey, and insisted that as their name was Zilla and not 'ZILLA' it was a completely different name and wouldn't be an issue. They also confirmed they started using the name after my first release (which happened to be in the U.S). I told them their thoughts on the name was bullshit... i couldn't start a band called 'THE ROLLING STONES' and get away with it. After repeatedly emailing them and threatening all sorts of legal shit (i had also my publishing company looking in to it for me and contacting them on my behalf) the guy who was wanting to release my EP told me that asides from taking them to court there was nothing i could do. Even if i won i'd have to pay my costs.. that'd be a hell of a lot of cash to protect a stupid name. So...
I just had to pick another name and move on really. Fortunately i was in the position that i had a number of releases lined up which would help cement the new name.
It isn't / wasn't an ideal situation but really there isn't anything you can do besides ask them to stop using your name.
Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2009 1:28 am
by boomstix
battle him for the name
its the way its done
Posted: Wed Apr 15, 2009 1:50 am
by kammo
same issue wit me. been running camo since 97. now some kid in austria who skates better than me is making dnb, n some other kid in nz is mc'ing. so im changing my name to camo-tree. plus i have a load of smif'n'western n bounty killa. not really much you can do
