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These jerks are absurdly protective of their trademark over a phrase coined over a century before any of them were born, but I can't find any reliable sources that address this. There's coverage of the individual lawsuits:
Almost anyone who ever covers these suits remarks on how over-reaching they are, but none of them seem aware that the lawsuit they're writing about isn't an isolated incident. I think their litigiousness deserves mention in this article; I'd argue it's what many people of my generation and younger know them from (the Ion Maiden lawsuit specifically), but my concern is that with no source explicitly recognizing the pattern, it would be Original Research. I couldn't find anything, but is anyone else aware of a reliable source discussing how lawsuit happy this band is? ~2025-34448-62 (talk) 00:10, 16 January 2026 (UTC)Reply
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