Irene McC said:
quoted 1 line Listening to Panasonic's Kulma over the weekend made me think of> Listening to Panasonic's Kulma over the weekend made me think of
how
quoted 6 lines they had to change their name to Pan Sonic and Hoover and now> they had to change their name to Pan Sonic and Hoover and now
> Hooverphonic.
>
> Yet Aphex 'gets away' with tracks titled Alberto Balsam and Ventolin.
>
> How does this work? And where's the logic?
yet aphex has to put on all of his releases now that Aphex is a
registered trademark of Aphex Systems, makers of some music gear.
it's easy -- panasonic and hoover are very large companies that value
their names a lot. So they actively pursue those that use those names
in media. Aphex already modified Alberto Balsalm (adding the last "l")
and "ventolin" may be a drug name, but most likely the company
responsible for the drug name never bothered to hunt down RDJ
regarding the name use, as asthma medicine and electronic music
are rather different fields.
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