Interestingly, j-pop duo Puffy Amiyumi had to add the "Amiyumi" prefix to their Japanese name for their American releases, because of... Sean Combs, who owns the copyright to the Puffy name.
Sounds like something came back and bit him on the arse.
The only way this case could be resolved in an interesting manner (well, for us, anyway) is if the judge forced one of them to assume the moniker of Artist Formerly Known As Diddy. Or maybe a symbol of some sort.
Couldn't Ken Dodd have the law on them both?
I've always thought "Charlatans UK" sounded decent but I fucking hate "London Suede". Not that "Suede UK" would sound any better, but still . . .
Puffy should just call himself "Diddy USA" and not just outside of the States. He's already surpassed various levels of ludicrousness ("I've gone through this difficult trial, thus I'm going to change my stage name to something even stupider"), so he might as well go the whole hog.
Combs should rename himself Crap Bag.
"If you need an easy way to remember it, just think of a bag of crap."
I kind of disagree with your comments regarding Sky One. I don't know so much about NTL, but Telewest was always a good provider, very few problems compared to the Sky Digital users I know. Still, losing Sky One and Sky News is hardly a big thing. Sky One has the Simpsons, and half the US 'biggie' shows, with C4 getting the other half, with more Simpsons. I'd actually pretty much stopped watching Sky One before this happened, as had many of my friends. Sky News wasn't bad though.
I'm not quite sure what Sky are attempting here; their revenue from NTL and Telewest was already huge, and their advertising rate must surely drop after suddenly losing potential millions in audience.
But I do agree Virgin were a bit too flippant, which might backfire on them somehow.
Surely it should be "Haywards Heath Suede", although that obviously doesn't have much international market potential.
As the Virgin themselves noted the viewing figures for Sky One have been going down by 7% a year for the last 5 years *in cable homes*. Not coincidentally the Virgin Media TV channels have had a bit of a viewership surge in that time, but sky has cut the price they'll pay for Living, UK Gold etc. to 10p per subscriber per month rather than 40p which will blow a fairly large hole in their profitability. Thus the tit of the tat so to speak. It's just a big farce really, the only good thing of which is that Virgin are now focused on 'On Demand' IPTV content deals which are *much* better for the viewer (no ads and starts whenever you want).
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