In a day of yeah whatevea’s this has to be the biggest..
Outkast have filed a new lawsuit seeking to uphold their right to the term “ATLiens. ” They claim an EDM duo is calling themselves ATLiens without permission and that the duo trademarked the name without their knowledge.
Early in the suit, Outkast uphold the fact that they originated the term “ATLiens,” the title of their second album. “The album’s title is a portmanteau of ‘ATL’ -an abbreviation for Atlanta, Georgia – and the word ‘aliens,'” the lawsuit explains for everyone who wasn’t into southern hip-hop in 1996. “The word ATLiens was invented by Outkast. Before Outkast created it, it was not used in the cultural lexicon and did not exist.”
The defendants in the suit, which was filed Tuesday in the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia Atlanta Division and spotted by Court Watch, are an Atlanta-based EDM duo called ATLiens. “Upon information and belief, Defendant selected the name ATLiens for their EDM duo to trade upon the tremendous fame and goodwill associated with Plaintiff’s ATLiens album, song, and mark, or, at a minimum, to call to consumers’ minds Plaintiff’s famous ATLiens album, song, and mark,” the filing contends.
