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sue

Your name is Tricity, you're a duo from Liverpool and you get selected to represent the UK in the Eurovision Song Contest. So far, so good.

You are told that there's a British dishwasher company that shares your name, so you change it to Jemini.

You then receive an injuction from the American hip hop artist Jemini that forbids you to use that name.
So you now hold a poll for people to choose your name between Sunrize, Jemani and Sapphire, and thereby decide whether you'll next be sued by a Swedish car club, a Dutch cleaning services company or the world's leading provider of innovative IT staffing solutions.

Have you ever heard of Google? And no, I am not suggesting that you name yourself after the search engine.

3 Responses to “sue”

  1. thebrick Says:

    didnt a certain four-piece Swedish bunch have to settle with a local fish company before they could use ABBA?

  2. Jon Says:

    I had the exact same problem with my band, 'The Ten Thousand Eyes of Daniel McCallister'. There's no point in looking back…

  3. mike Says:

    …and as Chig and I were saying only yesterday during a discussion of the very same burning issue: Sapphire was also one of the Song For Europe finalists in (I think) 1997, with the rather-good-actually "I'll Never Be Lonely Again". (Proper single, Tony De Vit remix and everything!)