Gaga accused of ripping off Mayhem logo

[NewYorkGirl 1,436]

Everyone wants a familiar fruit moment or whatever 

[Controversiaga 10,061]

I can see it 

[Ladle Ghoulash 18,711]

Is this why Gaga used a different font on the tour announcement? 

[AsleepOnTheCeiling 6,123]

4 hours ago, RAMROD said:

Why is it always nobodies that suing her?!! Why can't it be someone relevant?? 

Should Taylor sue her for How Bad Do You Want Me?

[weed 72,428]

I understand their position but they deserve nothing. If their brand was "Zinga doo Feefee" and that was Gaga's album name with a similar font, sure I'd be on their side.

[fede ARTPOP 6,609]

Just pay them and move on. 

[MOT 2,843]

I suppose it's worth a shot from the surfboarder point of view, and the album IS making waves .. might as well throw that into their court filing too.

[JazzGa 14,592]

They're both just aping common metal logo tropes, like the messy font, curved text line, and mirror image first and last letter.

The first thing I thought when I heard Gaga's new album was gonna be called Mayhem is that she must be inspired by the old 80s black metal band, Mayhem. The surf brand almost certainly copied their idea from the  metal band, and then perhaps Gaga or her graphic designer were subsequently inspired by the surf brand. So the surf brand couldn't copyright the ideas because they (very easily demonstrably I might add) aren't original themselves.

"There are only 12 notes between any octave, and then the octave repeats. All any artist can offer this world is how they see those 12 notes. That's it."

Case closed, legal sistren. 

[JazzGa 14,592]

27 minutes ago, weed said:

If their brand was "Zinga doo Feefee" 

This is Simlish for "Your mother is a turd" and very offsensitive, delete please

[llemesm 1,333]

She created the font? 

[AVeryGagaHolyDick 23,037]

5 hours ago, Mr Oak said:

The choice for a new logo on the tour poster speaks volumes 

That was just Gaga messing up with Paint, what are you talking about? 

[RAMROD 107,012]

51 minutes ago, AsleepOnTheCeiling said:

Should Taylor sue her for How Bad Do You Want Me?

No she should collab with her

[Nathaniel Arven 1,739]

a little game for little monsters

count the logos with the first and last letter in capital 'curvin towards each other'.

Edited Wednesday at 05:50 PM by Nathaniel Arven

[stvn 599]

Okay I'm not a lawyer but I'm into this stuff so let me make a few points. 

https://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=85658224&caseSearchType=US_APPLICATION&caseType=DEFAULT&searchType=statusSearch

1) You can go onto USPTO and see all trademarks. There are MANY people who have trademarked Mayhem for different purposes. When you file a trademark, you file it in different categories and say what you are selling. This surfboard company lists "surfboards" as their product. Therefore, people using Mayhem to sell OTHER types of goods and services are not bound by their trademark in the first place. 
2) There are 2 ways to trademark in this case. You can trademark just the text, or you can trademark the graphic alongside the text. As you can see in my link, this company DID NOT EVEN include the design in their trademark, it's a text-only trademark. 
3) Even IF we are comparing the graphics, the fonts are not similar and though there are some similarities, the surfboard company's logo is NOT unique either, as other logos have looked like that before them. 

I don't know if they are dumb or doing this for attention or both, but there is no legal basis for this. It will be thrown out. 

Edited Wednesday at 06:09 PM by stvn

[CARL GRIMES EXPERT 214]

did they stretch before this reach?