Country band Lady A has filed a lawsuit over trademark rights against a blues singer who uses the same name. In June, the band -- previously known as Lady Antebellum -- changed their name "after much personal reflection" and conversations with "closest Black friends" because the word "Antebellum" refers to a period of time "which includes slavery," they said.
A blues singer from Seattle, Wash., however, had already been using the name for more than two decades. Now, the country trio is taking legal action, according to Billboard, after the blues singer -- whose name is Anita White -- has allegedly made an “attempt to enforce purported trademarks rights in a mark that Plaintiffs have held for more than a decade," per the suit, which was.
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