DSP Media Files to Trademark KARA’s Name

[lapetite-indigo.livejournal.com]

With the industry still trying to make sense of KARA’s Seungyeon, Nicole, Hara, and Jiyoung filing to terminate their exclusive contracts with their agency, DSP Media, it was hit with another astounding blow, as reporters revealed that DSP Media has applied for trademark rights over the ‘KARA’ name.

According to information revealed by a patent browser on January 19th, DSP Media requested to trademark 85 different clauses regarding KARA on December 7th, 2010. Because it is still only an application, DSP Media does not have rights over the name yet, but should it become finalized, the members will need special permission from DSP in order to continue under the name of ‘KARA’.

Such recent developments have raised speculations over whether DSP Media predicted KARA’s move and attempted to take advantage of the situation by submitting the patent.

Trademark rights have always been a central issue whenever artists move onto different agencies, as the original agency is reluctant to allow those artists to promote under the same name once they leave. A similar case lies with JYJ, as they were unable to continue under the name of ‘TVXQ‘, since the ‘TVXQ’ name belongs to SM Entertainment.

The four girls were asked whether they would be open to compromising with DSP Media, in regards to their lawsuit against them. Hong Myungho of Trademark spoke through Star News and replied, “Before we reported the news to the public, we discussed with the parents of the four members and considered everyones’ opinions. Nobody has expressed a desire to continue moving forward with DSP Media. We will have to come to an agreement on various outstanding issues with DSP Media, in order to move on with the termination.”

When asked why Park Gyuri was excluded from their report, Hong replied, “We are working only for the four members, so we are not sure of Gyuri’s position. We’ve been in discussion with the members’ parents since two months ago. At the time, they attempted several times to reach a compromise with their agency, but because they could not reach one, they decided to terminate their contracts instead.”

Source: Star News #1, #2 via Nate, AKP

This makes me wonder if they saw this coming

Edit: added in picture from original article

Comments

[lysblack.livejournal.com]

fuck son, fuck.

[rexona-woman.livejournal.com]

:/

[conxito.livejournal.com]

lol. DSP Media.
are you SM brother or what?

[ghost-whisper.livejournal.com]

They all belong to the same old boys club I bet.

[prismboy.livejournal.com]

crying.

[faister.livejournal.com]

all i really want it clarifications from the other 4 :|

[faister.livejournal.com]

*is

[yuudokubi.livejournal.com]

They have to have seen it coming it takes a lot of names and months to prepare just the application itself. I hope they dont get it contrary to belief SME doesnt have the rights to the name DBSK either they tried twice but didnt get it, their still claiming it as their own though.

a favor to ask...

[http://users.livejournal.com/reminisce__/]

For my Sociology class, I'm writing a paper regarding TVXQ and its lawsuit - do you happen to have sources regarding SMent not owning the DBSK name and all the times it tried to claim to do so? It'd be really helpful, if it's not too much to ask.

[woohyun.livejournal.com]

(http://tinypic.com?ref=voapm9)

[oonalala.livejournal.com]

Really? When I read it, I thought it seems even more like Gyuri had to know this was going on.

[riofrio.livejournal.com]

step 1: release statement of contract termination.

step 2: trademarking of group name.

hhhmmm, where have i heard of this before?

[soheefan.livejournal.com]

NSYNC?

I dont know. Im kinda joking lol

Prayer Circle

[notyourgeisha.livejournal.com]

This might be the last one I ever hold ;_;

Re: Prayer Circle

[faister.livejournal.com]

i am hoping for the best :(

[lyndaosaurus.livejournal.com]

this is srsly so much to take in. ):

[yuukihitohira.livejournal.com]

jfc, this is like JYJ all over again


also, lol akp, SM doesn't own the name Dong Bang Shin Ki :\

[na-jin-br.livejournal.com]

Legit surprised they hadn't done this before.

[shimology.livejournal.com]

Same

[byronsbitch.livejournal.com]

Yea they obviously suspected the 4 girls would leave.

All very interesting..

[heekochan.livejournal.com]

so they saw this coming huh.....

[kiks4skm.livejournal.com]

(http://s59.photobucket.com/albums/g317/minini_es/?action=view&current=shitjustgotreal.gif)

[decodexx.livejournal.com]

lol irl what is this gif?

[lysblack.livejournal.com]

or K@R@

[ethereal-limbo.livejournal.com]

ugh, let the sue-ing begin, bah.

[mediumpurple.livejournal.com]

karagyuri

[pandaranger.livejournal.com]

*sigh*

[gabucha26.livejournal.com]

I was expecting them to make this move soon =/

[arigachun.livejournal.com]

I'm still in shock

[violetrosie.livejournal.com]

What the hell is going on.

[khaus414.livejournal.com]

THIS.

[captainmarvel.livejournal.com]

A similar case lies with JYJ, as they were unable to continue under the name of ‘TVXQ‘, since the ‘TVXQ’ name belongs to SM Entertainment

EXCUSE ME?

JYJ NEVER wanted to use the name DBSK and SM does NOT own the rights to that name.

[http://users.livejournal.com/reminisce__/]

I keep hearing this, is there a news source that confirms SMent not owning the TVXQ name and all its attempts to do? (compiling for a future paper) Because seriously, I keep seeing journalism articles getting it WRONG.