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After making a couple hundred movies, taking cocks in every hole like a true champ, Violet Blue has been forced to change her name, by some weird looking, lame blogger, "sex columnist" at the San Francisco Chronicle.
Blue's now going by Noname Jane as the writer and erotic stories book editor sued our gal in federal court. Blue had essentially retired from performing, making a complicated legal battle that threatens her past materials and the rights to continue using a name she's been working with in porn since 2000, all that much more difficult to understand.
Making matters more difficult is that simply telling starlet Violet Blue to change her name doesn't change the fact that a number of distributors have handled her work during her eight year career and getting each of them to cease sales of her stuff won't be easy.
Violet Blue the ass, I mean author says she's published about sexuality since 1999 and signed a book deal in January 2001 for "The Sweet Life: Stories of Sexual Fantasies and Adventures for Couples." Actress Violet, who made plenty of movies before Jan 2001 and we dare say has further helped couples become more adventurous with her inspired blowjobs and love of anal, had no lawyer on board until late into the federal court procedure and had little time to challenge the author's U.S. Patent and Trademark Office mark on the name, says AVN who originally covered the story. At the moment, the author has been granted a preliminary injunction that has caused the actress to have to cease using the name, though the matter is far from over.
In the meantime the actress tells AVN she may stick with Noname Jane . "Hopefully I can make that name as big as I did Violet Blue, or preferably bigger! I did a trademark search on Noname Jane, and no one has it."
No kidding.
Noname Jane, you've been done wrong.
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Comments
Joey fucking Nickles is
Joey fucking Nickles is calling (the real) Violet Blue a lame blogger? And an ass? Takes one to know one, I guess, but Violet Blue's been doing the blog thing since before they were called blogs, was one of the first podcasters, and is in my opinion an all-around cool chick.
Memo to the porn star formerly known as Violet Blue: when somebody sues you, GET A FUCKING LAWYER and maybe you won't sound like such a dumb cunt when you lose.
When popPorn has been around a while you guys MIGHT have room to talk shit about bloggers who were writing about sex and porn on the net when you were in fucking diapers. Meanwhile, I don't think you'll be getting too many more inbound links from fleshbot for a bit.
There is a difference
between having a Trademark and choosing to enforce it. Without having read the plaintiff's petition, I can't speak to what injury she is claiming. However, it would seem somewhat disingenuous for someone who writes about pornography to be offended if her readers were to become confused if the author happened to also perform in the industry. It would seem to me that the doubleness would benefit both the writer and the performer. Which leads me to believe that the one holding the Trademark is making a political statement at the expense of the one trying to reconcile her checking statement. Either way, I don't think it is fair to attack the performer because I think we can all agree she didn't select the author's Trademark based on any implicit notoriety, at worst she did so because she liked the name - and the most likely scenario is that she (and the studios that printer her name) did not have a clue there was conflict. Which is why the motives of the author are suspect, but I'm afraid I was not hyperbolic enough to be heard.
My thoughts on this...
Poo poo. Pee Pee. Tit #1. Zoob #2. Bagina. Muckdooze. Ramp-mouth. Zit filled ween. Puss grabbin'. Wango Tango.
my thoughts...
exactly.
i just laughed for half an hour. you are a goddamn genius. but you still can't touch my zoobs. my prostitute bf might get mad.
It is expensive and arduous...
to trademark a name, unless you are a large corporation.
and "dumb cunt" is a phrase I only like to use in a sexy/dirty way,
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Ms. Astrid
Frankly,
I tend to agree with much of this statement. Violet Blue is a popular and well-liked columnist. Certainly someone I admire.
On the other hand, Katsuni can change letters in her name and so can you!
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Ms. Astrid
yeah!
Why can't she just change her name to Violet Bnue? That's what I'd do.
Also, I'm going to court with every Italian takeout joint in the country for using my name to promote their sandwiches and spaghetti platters.
Opinions are great things...
Dave,
Don't forget that...
- Not Fade Away
This guy is TOO angry.
Listening to this guy is NO FUN. Maybe it's just me, but I can't take anybody seriously when they use the phrase "dumb cunt". Just can't do it. Sorry.
But still, what a fascinating discourse this has turned out to be.
Angry?
I'm not angry. I'm a fan of Violet Blue the blogger, and not a fan of TPSFKAVB, and I think popPorn has chosen the wrong team here... but I'm not angry.
You're right, "dumb cunt" was over the top. Does "stupid twat" sound better?
Way to go
now Joey Nickles is crying... and he's in a wheelchair.
ACTUALLY?
you mean he's ACTUALLY Disabled?
Oh, he's waaaay worse than that!
Plus, his cat died right after you slammed him in that comment. He's cool, though. He can handle it!
Glad to hear he can handle
Glad to hear he can handle it. It would be a shame if a porn columnist couldn't handle the rantings of semi-anonymous blog commenters like me!
Constructive criticism...
always welcome. Especially if you use the word cunt. :)
Domming with Snark!
Ms. Astrid
Joey and other disabled
Joey and other disabled individuals might want to check out this week's Savage Love column.
Well...
No, we need to fist fight now. But I need to get a much bigger guy to stand in for me during the fight. I wonder if Randy Spears will help me defend un-Violet's honor.
I read Violet Blue's blog
I read Violet Blue's blog and I do think she is an awesome contributor and representative of the female perspective on sexuality. However, I do think that suing someone for sharing a name in a similar industry like the adult market seems excessive. It seems that each individual had the name in use around the same time and have proof to show it, why can't there be a different solution than suing?
It seems to me that in this industry there is too much, "this is mine" mentality...maybe other less scrupulous people have caused this sense of needing to bash our way around to get our piece of the pie but it just seems a shame.
This is very true...
However, there is also the issue of tagging online. If you are searching the internet for Violet Blue and finding two people, one of them may not appreciate it. On the other hand, it seems questionable that a porn columnist wouldn't want herself associated with...well, porn. But that may be an other issue altogether...
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Ms. Astrid
Did she seriously not have a
Did she seriously not have a lawyer going into this thing? Whew, maybe porn stars aren't the brightest lamps!
Yep, had a lawyer.
I do have a lawyer. But in the beginning I didn't have the money to pay for one and it took me quite a while to find one that was willing to work pro bono. You see, when this all happened I had been out of work for about a year, pregnant with my second child. Before I was pregnant I had been going to beauty school and working part time as a waitress. But then my tummy got too big and I couldn't waitress anymore, too much of a liability. I did a couple movies in my last month of pregnancy with my partner and father of my child. I got the lawsuit a couple months after my daughter was born, and hadn't been back to work yet because I was still ummm bigger. The judge ordered a temporary injunction which said I couldn't use the name Violet Blue or anything similar. We had a mandatory arbitration and my lawyer told me that we should settle because he wouldn't be able to keep representing me if we didn't. So we settled, I gave up the name and my website domain and she took some mean stuff she said about me off her blog. Part of the settlement was that I was indignant. My lawyer recently informed me that the settlement was off because the IRS gave Blogger Blues lawyer something that says I'm not indignant. Which is BS. So thats where we are now and I'm not sure whats going to happen. BTW Joey, thanks for the article!