The Band sues an actual Hotel California!

[NoNottheFootballTeam]

Yahoo News just released an interesting tidbit (news is self explanatory):
https://www.yahoo.com/movies/eagles-...150236492.html

[Brooke]

Thanks for that, NNtFT! I caught a bit about it earlier this morning, but hadn't had time to find out what it was all about.

Wouldn't you think the hotel owners would have known not to mess with Don Henley and the Eagles?!

[NightMistBlue]

There's a hotel in Santa Monica with that name; I wonder why it hasn't been sued. http://www.hotelca.com/

Beach Boys tidbit: It used to be called the Santa Monica Bay Inn, back in the early 1980s when Dennis Wilson lived there.

But back to the hotel in Baja that the Eagles are suing: its original name in 1950 was Hotel California, so... couldn't the current owners just claim that they were reverting to its historical name?

[TW]

There's a hotel in Santa Monica with that name; I wonder why it hasn't been sued. http://www.hotelca.com/

Beach Boys tidbit: It used to be called the Santa Monica Bay Inn, back in the early 1980s when Dennis Wilson lived there.

But back to the hotel in Baja that the Eagles are suing: its original name in 1950 was Hotel California, so... couldn't the current owners just claim that they were reverting to its historical name?

I haven't done enough research yet to give a complete explanation, but it appears that this hotel has tried to convince guests that it is related to the song in some way (which the Eagles claim it is not). The Santa Monica hotel can have that name as long as they don't claim that it is related to the band or the song in any way.

[sodascouts]

I have to admit, when I first heard about this lawsuit, I thought, "There they go again." However, if it's true that the hotel was fraudulently claiming to be the inspiration for the song or something to that effect, they are justified in putting a stop to it.

[TW]

I have to admit, when I first heard about this lawsuit, I thought, "There they go again." However, if it's true that the hotel was fraudulently claiming to be the inspiration for the song or something to that effect, they are justified in putting a stop to it.

That was my reaction too until I read further into it.

[New Kid In Town]

I saw this on the news last night and the reporter said they play Eagles music in the hotel lobby and throughout the hotel.
However, when I first heard it my first thoughts were also "here we go again" too,

[Freypower]

The lawsuit with the Mexican hotel has been settled.

https://www.rollingstone.com/music/n...a-name-w515608

[Topkat]

Seems like the lawsuit has mutually been dropped.