> While everyone was giving you the news yesterday that Cassidy [Cassidey] re-signed with Vivid, it was reported here March 26. www.adultfyi.com/read.aspx?ID=15434.

> a thread starts on ADT regarding Devon’s posting www.adultfyi.com/read.aspx?ID=16531about how she got “screwed” by Digital Playground. Adella from Digital comments in an e-mail to me.

Adella sez: hey gene – we don’t own devon’s name – never have, never would – it doesn’t even sound like devon wrote that – not her style –

dogdays writes on ADT: I dont know how they can take claim to the name Devon her name had been created long before she got with them. Any other girls plan on signing with DP make sure you get to keep your name.

codybangs writes: Digital Playground does not own the name Devon. So no clue why the real Devon would say that.

Jesse Jane is a registered trademark of Digital Playground yes. Sophia Santi is a trademark of Digital Playground. But DP doesn’t own Devon. Just like DP doesn’t own Teagan’s name.

Devon is free to use her name and work somewhere else. Maybe she was high while writing that since she did mention being a stoner there.

astroknight writes: Reading Devon’s comments here I can’t help but think of the old saying of “It’s better to keep your mouth shut and be thought a fool than to open it and remove all doubt.”.

bob weighs in: Trademark registration is not the only way to gain rights to a name. Those rights can also be conveyed by contract, as described in the “Devon” post.

The question whether those rights were conveyed — that’s another matter altogether.

PSP fan [Jewel De’Nyle]: Well it’s crazy to me why anyone would take a girls idenity anyway??? They can prove in court if they had to like Tera did when they tried to pull the same crap on her. Stealing a girls name is just plain controling and childish if you think about it.

The fly is open: What’s the point in owning a name if you don’t have the person who embodies it? This isn’t “Bewitched”: DP can’t expect they could find someone new, give them Tera’s or Devon’s name, and expect us not to know the difference. I agree with you, Jewel. The whole ordeal is petty and immature, if it is indeed true.

codybangs: Stealing a name? Tera Patrick went by other names before she was with Digital Playground like Sadie Jordan. How come Tera can’t just use Sadie Jordan now after DP spent millions of dollars promoting the name Tera(branding toy lines for example)? If you came into DP with your own name like Teagan or Devon, you can keep it because you created the name, not us. That’s the major difference.

P.S.: Well, put yourself in Digital Playground shoes. When you’re one of the biggest(if not the biggest) PR machine in adult, and you’ve spent millions of dollars promoting a name and one day, she says, “Oh by the way, thanks for spending all the money and time promoting my name, I don’t need you anymore.” Now, if that name was hers to start with, it’d be a different story. I think the main thing is people DO NOT UNDERSTAND that Tera was never her name to begin with.

dogdays: Now come on Cody you guys did not create the name Tera Patrick she was an up and comer already using that name. Then DP latched onto her cause they knew her and her name would sell movies Id say most porn fans knew who she was long before she signed with DP. Hell I dont think I ever saw one of her flicks with DP I knew her from her Legend movies. Maybe if you would get rid of that crap Celste puts out for you guys these girls might want to stay.

the fly is open: I understand you wanting to protect the names of Jesse Jane and Sophia Santi. Both performers have been exclusive to your company from the start, and DP has literally built them up from scratch. They are your investment, and while I disagree with the principle of trademarking their names as if they were mere characters in the Digital Playground canon rather than genuine performers, I respect your decision to do so.

However, the difference with Tera, and with Devon if these allegations are correct, is that you took an established performer with over 50 credits with other companies to her name in either case. Their reputation, their recognition in the market was already in place. If DP did spend millions of dollars promoting Tera or Devon when your brand and their brand was already established, that seems to be a shaky investment more fueled by vanity than potential returns. You drew up the contract because your company wanted the publicity of having an established performer in your stable, not the other way around. This was a case of “we have this popular performer to ourselves, and not Vivid/Wicked/et cetera.” And the idea that your company deserves the names of these performers, when your product was more dependent on their reputation than their their reputation was more dependent on your product, is absurd.

> Jim Jr. from World Modeling posts regarding Piper Parker: This girl started with us. In the end she was missing shootings and not returning calls. Over the past couple months (from what I heard) she went to several agents. She came back and we gave her 1 more shot.

Immediately after emailing her pictures I got repsonses from clients saying she is the worse flake and that is why she has been with so many agents.

Tried reaching her for 4 days and when I blocked my number and she answered, her excuse was her car broke down. Had her booked for a Playboy Jenna interview yesterday and she was a no show. Talked to her this morning and she said she was in a car accident yesterday. Bottom line no matter what happens, she is not showing up to shoots.

>posted on www.lukeford.com. Fayner asks Tory Lane about the fight between her and Jasmine Byrne:

Fayner: I just wanted to call and get your side before I write about how badly Jasmine Byrne beat you up. Is that okay?

Lane: Where did you hear that shit from!?? That’s total bullshit! She attacked me. I defended myself. Too bad for her I kicked her fucking ass.

> from the NY Post: THE fate of New York’s most famous S&M dungeon is up in the air following the tragic drowning death of owner Ava Taurel. The Norwegian-born dominatrix – who was pulled under by powerful currents as she swam at a nudist beach near Puerto Escondito, Mexico, last Sunday – helped a Who’s Who of movie stars, politicians and Wall Street bigs get their kinks out at her whips-and-chains emporium in the Fisk Building at 250 W. 57th St. Before she became famous for punishing willing slaves for $500 or more a session, Taurel was known as actress Eva Norvind, the “Marilyn Monroe of Mexico,” for a series of sexy ’60s Spanish-language movies. She also worked as a Playboy bunny and Follies Bergere dancer. But pals told Page Six’s Bill Hoffmann that with Taurel gone, her dungeon and its numerous lady doms, including 7-foot tall Goddess Severa, may close for good. And its secrets will remain safe, say her pals, former adult film star Candida Royalle and “Happy Hooker” author Xaxier Hollander. “She had many well-known people come in, but she never revealed their identities,” said Royalle, who added, “She’ll be missed.”