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Lawrence_C
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What is the name of your state? Texas
About 4 years ago a friend of mine started a clique/group called P.A. (Poets Anonymous) it was basically a group of three people 2 years later we decided to get in to music so I thought it would be great to call ourselves the P.A. Boyz for about a year in a half all we were about was having fun talent didnt matter to us but after we had a little success and alot of people like our songs even though they were poorly recorded so we decided we want to start taking this seriously but one of the group members wasnt to talented and me and my other didnt know how to tell him this wasnt for him and when we did tell him he took it the wrong way like we was kicking him out of the friendship we started four years ago its like he confuses the friendship with the music group but a long story short with out telling us he copyrighted the name P.A. and wanted us to sign some papers and told us if we ever use the name we got to ask him for premission and if we didnt he would take half of what we would make I was wondering do we have any rights to that name or there any way around it we call ourselves P.A. Boyz and our lable is called M.O.B.-P.A. Records and one more thing two of us both came out with a solo album a year ago and since we knew nothing of the business we mailed our lyrics and the CD's they were on to ourselves cause some one said that could copyright our stuff and if that was true on the CDs on the credits it had P A Boyz and M.O.B. P.A. Records on it a couple of times one year before he so call copyrighted P.A. so i just want to know is there anything we can do?
About 4 years ago a friend of mine started a clique/group called P.A. (Poets Anonymous) it was basically a group of three people 2 years later we decided to get in to music so I thought it would be great to call ourselves the P.A. Boyz for about a year in a half all we were about was having fun talent didnt matter to us but after we had a little success and alot of people like our songs even though they were poorly recorded so we decided we want to start taking this seriously but one of the group members wasnt to talented and me and my other didnt know how to tell him this wasnt for him and when we did tell him he took it the wrong way like we was kicking him out of the friendship we started four years ago its like he confuses the friendship with the music group but a long story short with out telling us he copyrighted the name P.A. and wanted us to sign some papers and told us if we ever use the name we got to ask him for premission and if we didnt he would take half of what we would make I was wondering do we have any rights to that name or there any way around it we call ourselves P.A. Boyz and our lable is called M.O.B.-P.A. Records and one more thing two of us both came out with a solo album a year ago and since we knew nothing of the business we mailed our lyrics and the CD's they were on to ourselves cause some one said that could copyright our stuff and if that was true on the CDs on the credits it had P A Boyz and M.O.B. P.A. Records on it a couple of times one year before he so call copyrighted P.A. so i just want to know is there anything we can do?