Posted on 07/10/2020 8:50:50 AM PDT by Red Badger
The trio changed their name in June in light of the term 'Antebellum' referencing a pre-abolition period in the South
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Country band Lady A has filed a lawsuit over trademark rights against a blues singer who uses the same name.
In June, the band -- previously known as Lady Antebellum -- changed their name "after much personal reflection" and conversations with "closest Black friends" because the word "Antebellum" refers to a period of time "which includes slavery," they said.
A blues singer from Seattle, Wash., however, had already been using the name for more than two decades.
Now, the country trio is taking legal action, a rep confirmed to Fox News, after the blues singer -- whose name is Anita White -- has allegedly made an “attempt to enforce purported trademarks rights in a mark that Plaintiffs have held for more than a decade," per the suit.
Additionally, the suit -- which was filed on Wednesday in Nashville’s U.S. District Court for the Middle District of Tennessee -- reportedly alleges that White and her representation “delivered a draft settlement agreement that included an exorbitant monetary demand.” According to Billboard, $10 million was requested.
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Bad optics to do this.
A blues singer from Seattle, Wash., however, had already been using the name for more than two decades
This will go nowhere fast.
Some people are their own worst enemy.
Anna White is a black woman. Ruh Roh. Is Lady Antebellum racist for suing a black woman?
Maybe they should just change their name to Lady Reconstruction instead.
While I think the blues singer is in the right, “ $10 million was requested.”, that’s just negotiating room.
“It’s a quarter after one, I’m a little drunk and I just sued a black singer whose name I stole to prove how woke I am, yeah yeah...”
I thought she would have been better off changing her name to “Lady Anti-Bellum”. The path that she’s chosen is not very bright.
Lady A Hole.
How about “Lady W.” or “Lady Woke”?
And the “Dixie Chicks” are now the “Chicks”. Also bad optics....
I think the blues singer should countersue.
They are suing because they are mealy mouthed pushovers.
How about Lady Auntie Bella?
“Lady A” could be interpreted a number of ways. I’m thinking of a word ending in “hole”.
White supremacy mount sounds like to me. Who owns the trademark/copyright?
What’s the point in white privilege if you don’t exercise it once in awhile?
This ‘country-band’ will disappear by the end of this year, and just pretend they never existed.
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