Um, "You're Prince!" No, I'm not. That's the point of this conversation. I am no longer Prince. Do not call me that.
"Ok. Steve it is then."
As far as I'm concerned, by failing provide something usable himself, he waived any right to ownership or interest, and everyone was free to apply whatever placeholder label they want when they need to refer to him. It's no longer any of his business. He opted out of having any say in it.
In other words this is not a Dayta vs Dahta situation.
I'm lucky in that I have no reason to refer to him for any reason that doesn't involve his music or performances from the time when he was still named Prince, so as far as I'm concerned, for all of those references at least, it's still valid to refer to that artist by that name, and it doesn't matter that some other artist exists at some other time. It's a Prince album, a song written by Prince, Prince played pretty great guitar in a special one time, etc.
I bet he still collected royalty checks that Prince earned and retained ownership of all his posessions and copyrights even though he was supposedly not Prince any more. Oh I guess Prince, while still Prince, had the right to gift everything to the new person same as to a child or anyone else, but then that comes with a pretty big tax which I bet he didn't pay at the time of this massive transaction.
My understanding was that he couldn’t use the name Prince for a while for legal reasons. The logo was a clever trick. He couldn’t call himself Prince. He could have done a full name change, but would have lost a certain amount of brand recognition in doing so.
Adopting the emblem with no pronunciation meant people resorted to calling him “the artist formerly known as prince”, referring to the name Prince without violating the laws prohibiting him from using that name.
They retain claim on any rights of being a Musk family member?
If either of those then yes of course. But that's not the case is it?
Talking about little bobby drop tables. name = NULL would at least be disaster safe.
> They retain claim on any rights of being a Musk family member?
I don't know. It sounds like Musk would love to not claim rights as family members to avoid having to provide support. He's not as rich of a man as he was last week. poor guy