[lapcat]

I didn't say it's trademark violation. A person's name is not a trademark. It's about using someone's name to promote a product that the person is not associated with in any way.

Iommi is not the name of a band. The band's name is Black Sabbath. Tony Iommi is the name of a person, the guitar player of Black Sabbath.

[wavemode]

I'm not following how or why a big deal is being made out of this. Tony Iommi does not own the name Iommi. He's not the only person in the world with that name. He doesn't get any sort of social or legal right that the name not be used for other things just because he's wealthy and famous.

[lapcat]

> I'm not following how or why a big deal is being made out of this.

It's not a "big deal". The author and his project will very likely not even be noticed by Mr. Iommi and his legal representatives. I just made a comment, and it became a big argument only because people chose to argue with me.

> Tony Iommi does not own the name Iommi.

I never said he did. In fact, I just said in the comment you replied to that it's not a trademark violation.

> He's not the only person in the world with that name.

Irrelevant. It's obvious from the project, and has been confirmed by the author, that the allusion is specifically to Tony Iommi.

> He doesn't get any sort of social or legal right that the name not be used for other things just because he's wealthy and famous.

You're missing the point, because being famous is basically a prerequisite for providing a product endorsement. It's not that famous people have special rights but rather that an anonymous name provides no extra marketing value to a product.

Imagine if someone unrelated to Tony Iommi sold "Iommi Guitars". You think that wouldn't be a problem?

[boxed]

> Imagine if someone unrelated to Tony Iommi sold "Iommi Guitars". You think that wouldn't be a problem?

It would. Because that's the same domain. Making HTML tables and forms isn't even closely related. No matter how you look at it.

[lapcat]

> Because that's the same domain.

You're again mistakenly thinking of trademark law. Toni Iommi is not a product but a person whose name is not trademarked. He doesn't have a "domain". He just happens to be famous for being a guitar player.

The issue with "Iommi Guitars" is that it gives the impression that Tony Iommi the person endorses those guitars. But Tony Iommi could endorse any product. For example, he endorses a perfume: https://www.nordstrom.com/s/tony-iommi-monkey-special-parfum... If someone not associated with Tony Iommi sold a "Tony Iommi Perfume" that would also be a problem, not because the name "Tony Iommi" is trademarked but rather because it gives the impression that Tony Iommi endorses the product when he does not.

Celebrity endorsements are valuable, and celebrities endorse lots of products that have nothing to do with the primary profession for which they are famous. The actor Paul Newman has a whole line of food products.

Moreover, it's very common nowadays for musicians to use computers heavily, so it wouldn't be surprising for them to get into programming too.

[cluckindan]

The project isn’t named tonyiommi, though. Iommi is the name of Tony Iommi’s solo music project, though.

[boxed]

Hmm, I don't think that's correct. The single "Gone" has written "IOMMI" on it, but I think that's a design flourish mostly. There is an artist named "IOMMI" on Spotify though: https://open.spotify.com/artist/7H9kxQfhfZ0kJ7IOD3CTAP?si=l9...

[rascul]

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iommi_(album)

[boxed]

That's the name of an album though.

[rascul]

Yes, it is. It was also a project.

[mwbeatty]

You mean like Django?

[lapcat]

Already addressed in another comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45758830