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Originally Posted by Broomstick Pilot
I don't know how you can legally protect a name. Perhaps someone more conversed in law will correct me, but if your parents had called you Lilly and your surname was Savage, and, for the sake of this speculation, you went on to be a well known and popular television presenter. How could Paul O'Grady prevent you from using his stage name? Likewise any celeb whether from showbiz, sport or politics. I looked up, on an informative website some classics to this theme. It used to be: Cliff Richards & the Drifters, that was before the Drifters were heard of in the UK. Both bands went onto world fame,( but I don't know what became of Cliff Richard,) so neither could accuse the other of trading on their success. And an absolute classic was Tina Turner. The judge at her divorce granted her the stage name by which she was famously known for the very reason that I have just outlined. I wonder if Miss Diamond Blush, who posted what might seem a plagiarism of her stage name, has any further thoughts on this subject?
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Well, I know in America you can get sued and stuff... I think it's under the "intellectual rights" for that. Some politician tried to change his name to a famous telivision guy's name (I can't remember which one...) and the telly guy SUED him!
And anyhow, no one wants to have the same name as someone else when you're getting famous. You don't know if you're booking Dita von Teese the world-famous performer with a 16.5" waist, or Dita von Teese, the housewife from Massachussets who can't perform to save her life and weights 800 lbs.
I think it'd be a good idea, but there would have to be limits-- you'd have to actually be a performer or something. It's not fair if some 13-year old can take some name away from a 30-something veteran of the burlesque circuit because they got to the site first.
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