Vice Media Says Indie Punk Band Violates Trademarks

TechDirt: Vice Media has fired off a cease-and-desist letter to ViceVersa, a barely-making-it punk band. To be fair, Vice Media does indeed operate Vice Music, a label which has released records with some very big names in the music industry. It also owns a ton of other media outlets, such as magazines, book publishers, films and digital television. And it claims to own the rights to the word “vice” in basically any permutation or word combination for all of those markets.