Reported by Adam Martin of WrestleView.com
On Saturday, September 10, 2005 at 1:14 AM EST

World Wrestling Entertainment's legal department issued a notice to Hardcore Homecoming recently claiming to own all rights and trademarks to Justin Credible's name. By doing this, WWE claimed that Hardcore Homecoming was violating their copyrights. Ventura Distribution, who are responsible for the retail version of the Hardcore Homecoming event in June of 2005, received a cease and desist letter on the usage of the name on the DVD.

What makes things interesting is that WWE was able to pinpoint one thing, that being the trademark and copyrights on the Justin Credible name, and use that to push their new legal agenda. According to reports, Credible was given that name during his run in ECW in September of 1997 and has been using it since his release from WWE in 2003 that included appearances for TNA, various independent promotions and the recent "Extremely Hardcore" PPV taping in Atlanta. To make things even more interesting, WWE abandoned the trademark for the Justin Credible name on July 29th of 2003.

As documented yesterday, WWE saw to it to contact the venues in Cleveland and Buffalo where Hardcore Homecoming are running their events and claimed that they were running the events using their "intellectual properties." Hardcore Homecoming was also issued a cease and desist letter regarding a photo of the former Dudley Boyz (who can no longer use their names following their WWE release) that appeared on the promotion's website when both agreed to work events in August. The photo was then removed from the website a short time later. It still remains unclear what names they will go by, but did go under the "Team 3D" name at the recent WrestleReunion 2 event.

Credit: Mike Johnson @ PWInsider.com