it’s like a band being called Dylan, Springsteen or Hendrix… its pretty blatant, just find another name!

although yeah… i was in a band with a guy who had been another band that had recorded an album called ABBEY ROAD. hah… he called it that because the album was mastered on the very same board as the Beatles abbey road and he was being ironic… it was funny.

On the other hand, if you hear the word Lennon you’re definately gonna think of John first.

Wonder who’ll win?

I’ve never heard of her but if I had seen the name before the story, I would have assumed it was a Beatles tribute band or somehow otherwise related.

Her statement that her career may now come to an end is pretty over the top. If her music is really any good, her fans will continue to follow her regardless of her name.

I’m not sure about the legal issues involved but I’m pretty sure that if my name was Icky Presley I’d not get talked into marketing myself as Presley.

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i think enough said. I hope she wins, but I really doubt she will.

On the other hand, whether she has the right to trademark “Lennon” is another matter. That seems more iffy, since she’s hardly the first musician to have that name.

And I actually tend to dig Ono, but this move seems unfortunate. I wonder why she’s doing it? I mean, Lennon’s name is pretty much what it is, for good or ill. Will she start suing people that cover “Imagine” in a way she finds disrespectful?

The fact that Julian is supporting someone against Yoko should be completely exempt from any part of the argument (aside from the fact that Lennon Murphy is, y’know, wrong). Julian’s been royally dicked over by Yoko since day one, so he kinda has it out for her.

Most importantly, I encourage everyone to forget about these appeals to emotion generally. Yes, Yoko leaves a bad taste in some people’s mouths (mine included), but that doesn’t make her wrong if the law says she’s right. Disagree all you wish with the laws, but they came into being for a reason.

It raises my hackles that she wants to register that name as a trademark. ESPECIALLY since she’s adopting the “poor me attacked by awful, AWEful lawyers. Haters. HATERZZZ!”

So yeah, thumbs down on this. At least this legal part of her complaint.

Also, even if Yoko succeeds in breaking the trademark, that doesn’t mean that Lennon, the band, has to stop calling itself Lennon. Most of us have not trademarked our names.

And any sympathy I might have had for Lennon Murphy pretty much evaporated when she pulled the “oh woe, with no trademark my career will be destroyed” line.

As for poor old Mike Rowe – “I never even thought of getting anything out of them,” he said, adding that he only asked for the $10,000 because he was “sort of mad at them for only offering 10 bucks.” – man, he fell for one of the oldest slimy lawyer tricks in the book. Never ask them for more money; just decline their deliberately insulting offer.

I’d say that Murphy has a lot more worries with her music career than just Yoko’s lawsuit, though — she may have signed an overhyped major-label deal with Arista in 2000, but it only seems to have lasted for one album. Her last two full-length discs (and most recent release, a disc of remixes) have been released in the US on a record label called “John Galt Entertainment,” a company with no web presence and only about 10 non-Lennon releases. And despite the fact that Evanescence made truckloads of money with a fairly similar schtick over the last 8 years, I’d wager that most of us had never heard of Ms. Murphy until this story hit the wires. Hmmm … maybe she’s the one who brought the Trademark to Yoko’s attention . . .

Ehh, I don’t see how Ono could win this one. Unless of course, she’s also going to sue all the companies, persons, and cities that are also named Lennon.

Not everyone who is named Lennon is trying to get rich off the name.

Yoko doesn’t want her to change her name. She just want to undo a marketing decision that tries to profit off John’s name.

Hey, Murphy, self esteem issues much?

I also wonder what said dead celebrity himself would have to say about this. IANJL, but I suspect the man who once proclaimed his band as bigger than Jesus would tell everyone to ignore this manipulative little attention grabbing marketing ploy and realize everyone will forget who she is in a few years or less.

Yoko, for all her faults, appears content to let Ms. Murphy release music under whatever name she wants, as long as it doesn’t threaten Yoko’s ability to release her husband’s music under his actual name (for whom Ms. Murphy was named in tribute to) as well. It’s hard for me to see any fault in that.

What a load of tosh. Your momma didn’t know the man. She knew OF the pop star. What is it about Beatles fans, more than fans of any other pop group, that makes them think they’ve got this intense personal relationship with the figures on their album jackets?

You may be a great singer/songwriter, good for you. But don’t give us a sob story how your career will come to an end because Yoko is suing you. You couldn’t ask for better publicity….an attractive singer sued by crazy old Yoko….pull the other one it has bells on!

People forget about how much Yoko meant to John, and how important John is to music. Change your name to Heather Mills Leg and reap the benefits.