About 25 years ago I started playing gigs with , wait for it guy called Dan Worner..just the two of us.......we called ourselves The Warner Brothers. About eighteen months after that we got a rhythm section and it really started to get kind of busy, then we made a record.....then it got airplay,national. Then we got a letter. You know what it said.
Our legal advise said " unless you buy assetts in the U.S they can't touch you, the onus is on the plaintiff here and any court would view what you do as not attempting to mimic or pass-off , let ém sweat, the publicity is worth it
so we did, for two years.
Then we got a letter that stated they were about to lodge an ambit claim against our income over the previous five years, apparently 1 Million ,because it had been earned under a name that they believed was theirs... it was a ridiculous notion but as our advise said anytime a hearing is listed that mentions that sort of money there will be serious interest from the Tax Office.
We changed our name.
The bottom line was it was some little Subaru in a local office trying to big note himself to head office back in the U.S.....
Yes Dan , he drinks beer but no he don't race.