New Subscriber / Use of the name The Paranoids

[Otto Sell]

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Hello J.P.

Never heard of that story. Sounds like the Warner Bros. trying to stop the
Marx Bros. setting up a Casablanca-movie. Who owned the term "Bros." before?
What I mean is that neither "The" nor "Paranoids" can be copyrighted, and
the combination?
. . . cannot imagine TRP such a Bill-Gates-like person. But why not ask him:

Thomas Pynchon
Author of "Mason & Dixon"
c/o Henry Holt & Company Ltd.
115 West 18th Street
  NY NY 10011
USA

 Regards

Otto
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----- Original Message -----
From: <PeepSmersk at aol.com>
To: <pynchon-l at waste.org>
Sent: Tuesday, August 15, 2000 6:52 PM
Subject: New Subscriber / Use of the name The Paranoids


> Hello -
>
> My name's J.P. Cyr, and I'm new to the list.  I've got a specific question
that I'm hoping somebody can help me with (yes, i'm here 2 minutes and
already bugging y'all for info) . . .
>
> I am forming a band and, though we have a great 45 minute set together,
naming the entity has been troublesome.  The three members have all agreed
> that we'd love to name ourselves The Paranoids;  however I seem to
recollect reading somewhere that old Thomas grew quite annoyed at someone
who'd previously tried to do the same, to the extent of legally "blocking"
the use of the name.
>
> Am I correct on that count?  I would not want to take the name if it were
to draw the ire of Mr. Pynchon . . . I've also searched the web at great
length
> looking for someone else who's used the name, and have found nothing -
leading me to suspect that my remembrance is indeed true.  Yet I can't seem
to find any info on the subject.
>
> If any of you know definitively of a case like that mentioned above,
please let me know.  If not, that's fine as well.  I'd really appreciate any
info you on the subject!
>
> Glad to be here,
> JP
>