Indie Rock Band Easy Life Submits Application To EasyJet To Withdraw Legal Action

JAKARTA - MPkoher Harman submitted an application to EasyGroup for them to lift the threat of legal action against Easy Life.

Earlier this week, the indie rock band from Leicester, England was sued by the conglomerate that owns EasyJet and claims that the company 'forced' them to change names or they were at risk of facing lawsuits.

In response, a EasyGroup spokesperson told NME: Stelios and easyGroup founded and (now) have rights to the name of the easy brand.

Other companies (including easyLife) pay annual royalties for their use as part of their business strategy. We can't just let third parties who are not authorized to use it for free, free and free. That's so unfair."

The company said in a separate statement: "Referring to the brand thieves Mr. Matravers and his band members who have decided to use our brand, easyLife, without permission, we have a long record of stopping thieves legally using our brand and I'm sure we will stop Mr. Matravers."

The band denies the notion that it is a 'brand thief' and argues that it has used their name for a long time before the conglomerate licensed EasyLife's online retailer name, which received annual fees. EasyGroup owners have no financial interest in their business.

Now, Easy Life is giving a outline of their careers on social media as an attempt to prove that they used the name long before EasyGroup filed a trademark for EasyLife.

Easy Life claims that they played their first show in Bodega in Nottingham in 2015 (added no one there lol), released their first single Pockets in 2017, signed a contract with their label in 2018 and then released their debut album Life's A Beach two years ago.

They said all of this happened before EasyGroup patented the 'EasyLife' trademark in August 2022.

"Sorry, who is the brand thief here?" they asked.

NME has contacted EasyGroup to comment.

In their initial statement, the band insisted that we've worked hard to build our brand and I'm sure we'll never affect their business'.

This isn't the first time EasyGroup has sued another business for using a name that contains the word 'easy'.

In 2018, the company took legal action against Netflix over the comedy series Easy, claiming that the name usage violated European trademarks.