Bill Wyman2
I've been considering writing a piece on what I think is wrong with the way intellectual property is currently viewed. After reading this article, I am definitely going to get busy on it. Former Rolling Stones' guitarist Bill Wyman's lawyers have contacted a journalist named Bill Wyman threatening "legal action" over the use of the name. Of course, the journalist's name is Bill Wyman, so basically they are threatening to sue this guy for using his own name. Well, they do say that he could continue to use it if he could prove that he had come by it legally and included a disclaimer in everything he wrote that he is not "the" Bill Wyman. How awfully big of them.
UPDATE: I'm still planning on writing that piece, but feel terribly humbled in the face of this letter Groucho Marx wrote to Warner Brothers after they threatened legal action to prevent the Marx Brothers from releasing the film "A Night in Casablanca."