Hey whats up everyone!!! I smoked a few bowls for all you!! Anyway right now im invisible. i swear im invisible. i smoked too much! jk. haha. na but "Devon"doesn't exist anymore. Digital stole my name and i cannever use it again unless i work for those fags. yeah fuckin right!!!!!!!!!! to be honest at first i was pissed off but its all about "fuck it" and i kinda feel bad for those people cuz thier like that. lol.
you know like an indian giver in kindergarden:) i have no clue what my name is gonna be, maybe use my realname, but im gonna keep it real always and always:) So yeah they tricked me when i signed my last contractand it sux cuz i feel bad for the other girls that work for them also. Whats funny is i believe that everything happens for a reason so im gonna play them fools. haha. i think they punchlined thierselves without knowing it:) seriously im pumped though because this is bigtime for me that ive always been this fake girl that was told what to do named "Devon" and now im free to be myself. Plus im not worried about shit cuz i don't care how much money anyone hasor whoever they think they are, if we were all kickin it partying having a badass time, outside of business being fake for them, those peps could never hang or roll with our crew. my girlies are crazy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! lol you know whats funny is icould picture the owner of the company smiling and laughing probably after i signed that contract signing my fake name away. they lied and and they fucked tera patrick over to. she's still in court with them.
anyway though just wanted to let you all know that for now on i guess im not "devon" anymore but im stillthat little blonde stoner biiiiiiiiiiiiiaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaattttcch. haha. anyway im not sure what to say but luv you all and smoke one for me and i will for you:)
XOXO
That was enough to cause a stir among the know-it-alls from ADT´s forum:
dogdays writes: I dont know how they can take claim to the name Devon her name had been created long before she got with them. Any other girls plan on signing with DP make sure you get to keep your name. Here a copy of Devon Bulletin.
codybangs writes: Digital Playground does not own the name Devon. So no clue why the real Devon would say that.
Jesse Jane is a registered trademark of Digital Playground yes. Sophia Santi is a trademark of Digital Playground. But DP doesn't own Devon. Just like DP doesn't own Teagan's name.
Devon is free to use her name and work somewhere else. Maybe she was high while writing that since she did mention being a stoner there.
astroknight writes: Reading Devon's comments here I can't help but think of the old saying of "It's better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.".
bob weighs in: Trademark registration is not the only way to gain rights to a name. Those rights can also be conveyed by contract, as described in the "Devon" post.
The question whether those rights were conveyed -- that's another matter altogether.
PSP fan [Jewel De'Nyle]: Well it's crazy to me why anyone would take a girls idenity anyway??? They can prove in court if they had to like Tera did when they tried to pull the same crap on her. Stealing a girls name is just plain controling and childish if you think about it.
The fly is open: What's the point in owning a name if you don't have the person who embodies it? This isn't "Bewitched": DP can't expect they could find someone new, give them Tera's or Devon's name, and expect us not to know the difference. I agree with you, Jewel. The whole ordeal is petty and immature, if it is indeed true.
codybangs: Stealing a name? Tera Patrick went by other names before she was with Digital Playground like Sadie Jordan. How come Tera can't just use Sadie Jordan now after DP spent millions of dollars promoting the name Tera(branding toy lines for example)? If you came into DP with your own name like Teagan or Devon, you can keep it because you created the name, not us. That's the major difference.
P.S.: Well, put yourself in Digital Playground shoes. When you're one of the biggest(if not the biggest) PR machine in adult, and you've spent millions of dollars promoting a name and one day, she says, "Oh by the way, thanks for spending all the money and time promoting my name, I don't need you anymore." Now, if that name was hers to start with, it'd be a different story. I think the main thing is people DO NOT UNDERSTAND that Tera was never her name to begin with.
dogdays: Now come on Cody you guys did not create the name Tera Patrick she was an up and comer already using that name. Then DP latched onto her cause they knew her and her name would sell movies Id say most porn fans knew who she was long before she signed with DP. Hell I dont think I ever saw one of her flicks with DP I knew her from her Legend movies. Maybe if you would get rid of that crap Celste puts out for you guys these girls might want to stay.
the fly is open: I understand you wanting to protect the names of Jesse Jane and Sophia Santi. Both performers have been exclusive to your company from the start, and DP has literally built them up from scratch. They are your investment, and while I disagree with the principle of trademarking their names as if they were mere characters in the Digital Playground canon rather than genuine performers, I respect your decision to do so.
However, the difference with Tera, and with Devon if these allegations are correct, is that you took an established performer with over 50 credits with other companies to her name in either case. Their reputation, their recognition in the market was already in place. If DP did spend millions of dollars promoting Tera or Devon when your brand and their brand was already established, that seems to be a shaky investment more fueled by vanity than potential returns. You drew up the contract because your company wanted the publicity of having an established performer in your stable, not the other way around. This was a case of "we have this popular performer to ourselves, and not Vivid/Wicked/et cetera." And the idea that your company deserves the names of these performers, when your product was more dependent on their reputation than their their reputation was more dependent on your product, is absurd.
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