Chris Fahey wrote:
quoted 3 lines One thing I've always appreciated about Panasonic (besides the beautiful
> One thing I've always appreciated about Panasonic (besides the beautiful
> beeps!) is the blatant use of the brand name and logo as their band
> name. Have they ever gotten into legal trouble over their name?
Here's an excerpt from a Panasonic interview for the Finnish Rumba
magazine, November 1995 <
http://www.sci.fi/~phinnweb/panasonic_rumba.html>:
By the way, has there been any hassle with the international electronics
giant with which you share your name?
Mika Vainio: - Not yet, but it's bound to come. We've been preparing for that
in some ways, even.
Ilpo Väisänen: - The American distributor won't take the album, they are
afraid of getting into trouble. We should clear that out first.
Might you invent a new name for the band in the future?
Mika: - Maybe we have to do it then. Or just to change the font. The word
itself is Latin, so I don't see how they could have an exclusive right to
that.
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I don't know if there has been any drastic changes with the situation since
this interview, but I haven't heard about any legal problems or any
concrete plans for the band to change their name...
http://www.uta.fi/~trerra/panasonic.html
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