[mb-users] Group had to change there name - two artist entries?

Alexander Kiel alexanderkiel at gmx.net
Tue Feb 26 20:54:15 UTC 2008


I have another example of a German band with a name change due to legal 
issues:

Die Allianz -> Band ohne Namen

http://musicbrainz.org/artist/53394b17-648b-4031-9e32-92c28a3f398c.html
http://musicbrainz.org/artist/4c75bfd5-6009-4269-b333-d119509792c8.html

You can read more about it in English on Wikipedia [1]. "Allianz" [2] is 
a very large insurance service in Germany. So they file a suit against 
"Die Allianz" as they became popular.

So we have two artists here which should be really one. Should I merge them?

Sorry for such quite unpopular German bands, but I have no better 
examples which I know personally about.

Regards
Alex

[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Band_Ohne_Namen
[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Allianz



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