Here is the latest news about the confusion of Rain’s name …
hmmmm now the concerts are effected and being postponed!
June 7, 2007
Korean web Rain’s world tour in the US postponed due to issues with his name!
Singer-actor Rain (real name: Jeong Ji Hun, 25 years old) started his Rain’s coming world tour last year. But he encountered an unexpected problem, which lead to the postponement in the US.
On 20th February 2007, California’s record label “Rain corporation” filed an report, requesting Rain to not use “Rain” in the US. Now, “Rain corporation” has requested for an order to stop the name “Rain” from being used in any performances.
Because of that, Rain’s coming world tour 06/07’s manager has to change the dates for all US concerts ( 15,19,23,27 and 30 June)
StarM says that Rain corporation has registered the name “Rain” as a trademark and has a band named “Rain” under its wings. Thus, they request for Rain to not use the name “Rain”
StarM expresses that they have tried many ways to settle this matter but to no avail. The court will announce the results on the 14th, a day before the concert in Hawaii. If the concert still carries on, it will impact Rain negatively. Thus, they arrived on the decision of postponing the concerts in the US. They will discuss and announce the confirmed dates later.
After Rain returned to Korea from his concerts in Bangkok, upon learning this, he is trapped in a dilemma.
This is what Rain said himself!
World Star Rain expresses his thoughts about his name for his world tour in the US.
Rain explains that the case is being carefully handled. Although it will not affect his world tour in the US, he cannot carry on with his concert because it might be a problem in the future. He plans to solve it completely before having a concert in the US. Thus, he had to postpone it.
A company in California called “Rain Corporation” is going to use the word “Rain” to hold concerts in the US. On 20th February, they requested for a prohibition for others to use the word “Rain”
Rain said with much regrets that based on the information they got from a lawyer in the US, the name “Rain” has been used six times but they only filed a lawsuit against Rain. They suspect that they might have other motives.
They believe that Rain Corporation’s litigation would be dismissed but in case of any unexpected results, they decided to postpone it.
They said that the court would announce the verdict on the 14th, a day before the concert in Hawaii. So if the concerts still carries on, they are afraid that the negative consequences will affect the fan. Thus, they made a difficult decision.
They said that after the verdict is announced, they will reschedule the dates for the concerts in Hawaii, Atlanta, New York, San Francisco, LA etc…
Credit : baidu + http://news.naver.com/news/read.php?mode=L…amp;menu_id=106
Credit: nglkt @ soompi
Oh my gosh! how ridiculous is that!! this is sooooo stupid!! ok so the music market in america is pretty competitive, but preventing a rising star from trying to break into a larger scale music scene is plain cunning!! get over it! rain is a common use every day word, you cant lay claim on it! What a bunch of losers!! I personally think he should use Bi, easy to say, easy to spell and its korean!! Ji Hun ah, Hwaiting!