Brainstorm is already several bands? o.o

[BrandonS]

My friend and I were trying to think of a band name for our band, so he was like, let's brain storm... so I said heh, why not Brainstorm? (cause I'm lazy and didnt want to think of a name)

Anyway I got to metal-archives.com and find out there are like 5 or 6 brainstorm bands, and then I came here and noticed there was a forum! Why are there so many brainstorms, and how do I know which one this forum belongs to?

Sorry.. I'm confused!!1 And slightly upset x_x

 

[sj]

This Forum belongs to this Brainstorm http://www.truemetal.org/brainstorm/

A German Powermetal-Band.

 

[BrandonS]

Are they any good? I guess I will have to download some of their stuff and see if I like it, and then buy the CD I guess..

How is it possible that there are so many Brainstorms though? Isn't that illegal or something? If I go to amazon.com and try to buy Brainstorm CDs, it'll show all the cds from all the brainstorm bands? x_X

 

[sj]

Hmm i think since theres no copyright laws on that (at least here in germany) there are no problems with having a name of the band twice or more... or have you ever seen metallica™? or something like that?

Yeah Brainstorm is cool i think, of course it behaves on your taste of music but its nice powermetal

Try to find the downloads in the discography section on their homepage, they're legally to download and it are some of the bests ;-)

regards

 

[Gaunerin]

you actually have to distinguish between copyright and trademark as these are two different things. and I'm sure you _can_ register a band name as a trademark. afaik it does mainly work locally or so (that's why it's no problem to have a Brainstorm dance band in Eastern Europe for example).....but I never really bothered to dig deeper into the legal side of band names. I'm pretty sure you can find plenty of information on the net though.

 

[Gaunerin]

see also these threads we had before:
http://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=113528
http://www.ultimatemetal.com/forum/showthread.php?t=95734

 

[CyberCy]

Though there are already some other bands calles Brainstorm (from Australia n' others) WE DO KNOW THE BEST worldwide: OUR BRAINSTORM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Marlies]

I have no idea if anyone has ever bought the rights to the name Brainstorm. It's a normal English word, so it's inevitable that there are several bands with that name, even one in the 70's! So our Brainstorm is not the first, but so far I have not heard of any conflict with existing bands (only one other band is really succesfull, those Latvian Eurovision Songcontest winners).