It seems there may be a legal dispute brewing over the trademark to the Kublai Khan name. There’s of course the more current Kublai Khan (see here,) who hail from Texas and then there’s the Minnesotan thrash metal band, Kublai Khan, who formed in 1985 (see here.) It would appear to be the older outfit who have taken issue with the much younger Texan outfit.
While neither party appear to have publicly acknowledged any potential lawsuit, Hannah Hensely, wife of the Minnesotan Kublai Khan‘s guitarist Christopher Hensely, has made some suggestive comments lately via social media.
Those comments were made amidst apparent social media disputes between the two band’s fanbases. Among some of her comments are:
“That band from Texas stole the band name. And their fans are being real king douchers about it. Maybe direct your anger towards the idiots that knowingly stole an already existing band name. When the original band was started is irrelevant. It was a blatant poor desicion on their part, and an even poorer desicion on their fan’s part to act a fool and be rude to the original band…. Just sayin'”
“He has a right to, it’s his band, his copyright, and guess what if he decides to start making music again he has every right to. That is why he is suing them. Not because they’re ‘blowing up’ but because it is his name and he intends to keep using it. The popularity of the band denotes absolutely jack shit when they stole a name that was legally someone else’s. It’s fucking black and white man, how are all of you so fucking blind to that? There’s no grey area here. Your boys made a really poor desicion. And they did it knowingly! The original KK Annihilation album art was used to promote one of the Texas Kublai shows. So sit there and try to tell me it was an accident.”
[via Lambgoat]
