If I opened a ramen noodle house in the US and named it Ichiraku Ramen Bar, who could potentially sue me for the name rights?
If I opened a ramen noodle house in the US and named it Ichiraku Ramen Bar, who could potentially sue me for the name rights?
“For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
Viz would most probably.
Can't you just do what Japanese animators and Hollywood producers do whenever they fail to get appropriate sponsorship/endorsement? Misspell a few letters and you're home free.
"McDonalds" --> "WacDonalds"
"Coca-Cola" ---> "COLA" (red can)
"Zabu" (a detergent) --> "Zabubu"
"DKNY" --> "DINKY"
"Gundam" --> "****am"
According to this,
http://naruto.wikia.com/wiki/Ichiraku_Ramen_Bar
Restaurants with the same name exist already.
If it's not Isuzu-chan Mii~
Ichilak Ramen Bar
Cool, but those restaurants are in Japan. If I opened the shop in America, I wonder if I could be held legally liable by companies like Viz like Ryouga suggested, or even the original Ichiraku company.Originally Posted by Buffalobiian
Btw, I will definitely find and eat at one of these Ichiraku's in Fukuoka the next time I'm in Japan.
“For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
Just don't expect anything naruto related inside
"Our hearts are full of memories but not all of them reflect the truth. The heart isn't a recording device. Even important memories change with time. They warp or fade, leaving us with but a shadow of what we hoped to remember." 天の道を行き、全てを司る。これは僕の世界。
I'm way past my Naruto fandom, so unless there were some rare collectibles available, I wouldn't be disappointed if there were no Naruto decorations in these restaurants. I love fresh ramen and gyoza, so I'd go for that.Just don't expect anything naruto related inside
“For God will not permit that we shall know what is to come... those who by some sorcery or by some dream might come to pierce the veil that lies so darkly over all that is before them may serve by just that vision to cause that God should wrench the world from its heading and set it upon another course altogether and then where stands the sorcerer? Where the dreamer and his dream?”
Nobody could sue you for that. (That's not actually true. A person can sue another person for any reason. It is up to the court to decide if the suit has merit)
But at least it isn't a trademark issue, as there presumably aren't any restaurants (or businesses in other competing industries) who you could be confused for -- in your state at least.
As far as I can tell, there is no "copyright" issue.
Disney has sued people for using their images (like painted pictures of Mickey Mouse in a day care center), under some sort of copyright or licensing infringement. I bet they won, but I don't see what their justification could be. I vaguely them claiming that the use of their art by third parties could be seen as an unauthorized endorsement of a business by Disney. That's closer to trademark law than copyright law, but I think Disney won, and trademark law would have told Disney "tough titties".
Let's not forget that Disney thinks they own Cinderella, Snow White, and dozens of other hundreds of years old fairy tales. Their sense of entitlement is unbounded.
"After all, I am strangely colored."
I doubt Disney thinks they own more than their own designs of the charaters and locations and the specific adaptations of the stories (scripts) they used for the movies, plus other such things that obviously fall under copyrights.
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