Search the Community

I am going through an extremely stressful situation so I do apologize for my inactivity. That being said- I wanted to start a thread on the musical specifically. It was used multiple times by BOMM to maintain an active trademark status, but didnt actually come out for years. So who's responsible for it? First- to show how long it took for the show to become active, here's an excerpt from Wikipedia: Once Upon a One More Time was initially scheduled to premiere October 29, 2019 in Chicago, but was soon delayed to the following year.[7][8] The musical premiere at the James M. Nederlander Theatre was then scheduled for April 14, 2020, running through May 17 (anticipating New York previews at the Marquis Theatre on June 26, and a Broadway opening July 30).[9] But on March 12, Illinois Governor J. B. Pritzker announced a ban on all large gatherings through May 1, 2020, in response to the coronavirus pandemic.[10] As a result of widespread theatre closures across the United States, producers canceled the Chicago engagement.[11]DUr It did not premiere until 2021 due to "covid" and appeared to also be related to B going to rehab. Anyways, Simply put, this is what Wikipedia says about who is responsible for the musical: Sony Pictures acquired film rights to Once Upon a One More Time in April 2019, with Spears producing alongside Larry Rudolph and John Davis through his company Davis Entertainment.[22] Did not necessarily have to do that much digging to find this- but it makes me wonder. Since MK appears to own Britneys brand and TMs to this point, what if Sony is responsible for snatching the rights to her assets before she could freely do so herself?

Since I am horribly stumped on my trademark timeline video because of the amount of ridiculousness I have to sort through, but I decided to post some of my research here. The trademark thing seems irrelevant but from what I've seen, trademarks can be used against a person in various ways in the music industry. Heres a thread of some of the most prominent things I found if anyone is curious. This is accurate to my knowledge but it is really a big research dump to put pieces together- so if anyone has additional information or corrections/updates that I should make please feel free. The Word Marks There are hundreds of registered trademarks using the name Britney Spears used to produce a variety of merchandise. While there are TONS to sort through my main focus are the word marks for musical works & her perfumes. Despite filings saying "Britney Spears is a living person whose consent is of record" the consent of record is from Jamie Spears and Andrew Wallet most recently, Micheal Kane, on her behalf. (Most recently) (source) I had reported in my video on it she first registered her TMs in 2009. Actually- Britney had her own TMS under her own name far before this (source) since 1999. After C-ship, her trademarks under her own name were abandoned. in 2009, most of these would be renewed and under ownership to the infamous Britney Brands All word marks for everything currently belong to the company known as Baby One More Mark LLC (source) (source) Before the conservatorship, Britneys signature on some of the pre c-ship documents is just a drawn check, which could possibly just be the letter "B". source Rudolph & Beer represented Britney in first registering her marks, which she herself was the owner at that point. According to filings for the marks, her statement of being in treatment due to her "fathers health issues" was used to show excusable nonuse (why they are not using it so that it does not get invalidated) for the word mark used for live performances. Along with a musical called "Once Upon a One More Time" (source) As of 2018, the marks were signed out of Britneys ownership, and reassigned to a company known as Baby One More Mark, LLC. Jamie Spears and Andrew Wallet signed away the trademarks on Britneys behalf, effectively to themselves, who also signed on behalf of Baby One More Mark LLC as managers. Someone named Andrea Miller was (possibly) involved in incorporating these companies (source pending), who also incorporated The P-Cat Dolls What We Know About Britney Brands, Baby One More Mark And B's Involvement. Britney Brands was established initially in 1999, by Jamie Spears and other family members. This company is responsible (under Epic Rights, most recently) for issuing licenses to produce Britney Spears Products. Epic rights is derived from Sony. AS OF 10/06 Micheal Kane is the sole officer of the company, making him the CEO and the entire board of directors. (SOURCE) Represented by Erika Easter Until sometime towards the end of last year, Jamie Spears was in control of the Britney Brands company (as CEO and sole director) and it has been alleged by journalists that he resides in front of a warehouse full of her merchandise.(<sourced) Britney Spears became the President of Britney Brands in roughly 2005, which would continue to be until 2010. (estimated, at some point, she was removed from the company completly but I still am looking for when exactly that happened.) California SOS indicates that the company has a labor judgement. (source) The main branch of Britney Brands is in Louisiana, with two branches in New York and California. According to public record, Micheal Kane is currently in control of all branches (as CEO and sole director, respectively) . OpenCorps indicates Jamie is still CEO of the New York branch (source), however I cannot verify this because the NY website to view these records has been "down" for "maintenance" for months. (source) Lou Taylor was listed as an Agent until the point she had resigned as conservator. I will be updating this routinely as I am researching.