Pu^H^HDid^H^H^HSean Combs legal news

[The Third Dukes]

LONDON (AFP) - US rap superstar Sean Combs must change his name once again after losing the right to call himself Diddy in Britain to a disgruntled little-known music producer.

Combs, 36, who used to call himself Puff Daddy, Puffy and P Diddy, agreed to pay more than 100,000 pounds legal costs and 10,000 pounds damages as part of a settlement sealed earlier this week at the High Court in London.

London-based Richard Dearlove, who has traded under the Diddy name since 1992, sued Combs after he dropped the P from his moniker, under laws designed to protect commercial interests from unfair competition.

"He changed his name to Diddy. I was gutted," Dearlove told The Guardian newspaper.

"I started getting emails from Puerto Rican girls asking if they could be in my video and people were asking me to look at their clothing line."

Combs, who presides over a vast media empire and fashion lines, and whose hits include "I'll Be Missing You", will now have to rebrand himself in Britain, which could prove costly.

[Guest muddatrucker]

You call this effed up? Americans are hardly ones to go on about pointlessly suing people.

[Summers]

This isn't "effed" up at all. Combs was using the trademarked moniker of someone else.

Fucked up is suing McDonalds because you eat too much.

[apsham]

QUICK EVERYONE RUSH TO ENGLAND'S DEFENSE!

[Xero Gravity]

You call this effed up? Americans are hardly ones to go on about pointlessly suing people.

[Guest muddatrucker]

QUICK EVERYONE RUSH TO ENGLAND'S DEFENSE!

[gunnar hendershow]

I hope he goes with Did.

[Vendetta]

He really should just use the name Sean Combs.

Edited September 13, 2006 by Smooth Criminal

[apsham]

No?

[The Kraig]

Hasn't he got enough names yet?

Personally, I just call him Wanker. And Tristy calls him Nigger.

And Diddy literally means a titfuck, in Scotland.

[Dan]

Pureto Rican girls eh? Anybody else thinking what I'm thinking?

Can't say I am summ.

[livid]

Hasn't he got enough names yet?

Personally, I just call him Wanker. And Tristy calls him Nigger.

And Diddy literally means a titfuck, in Scotland.

[The Kraig]

No one said you were proud of it. It's just another thing America brought upon itself, that they also hate. Like Bush. Only morons are proud of Bush.

[gunnar hendershow]

Yeah most people I've ran into love the same parts of America I love and love most Americans who go overseas since we're clearly not close-minded fucktards and grasp a world exists not named USA.

That's at least been the reception most people I've met in England have given me so far.

Edited September 11, 2006 by damshow

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

Pureto Rican girls eh? Anybody else thinking what I'm thinking?

We have Puerto Rican girls in England? :blink:

[Lowerdeck]

Puffy (that's still his name to me) sucks. I really don't think this will affect him all that much.

[ChrisSteeleAteMyHamster]

Poof Diddly?

Sounds a bit gay.

[MDK]

Duff Paddy?

I loved that bit in the VMA Europe awards promo with Ronan Keaton.

[Nerf]

Heh. I've only ever liked one song, and that was Come With Me. And that doesn't count, 'cause it was just Kashmir re-recorded with him rapping over it. So, he's still shit.

[The Kraig]

Duff Paddy?

I loved that bit in the VMA Europe awards promo with Ronan Keaton.