Ravyn
09-25-2007, 09:46 PM
From Katsuni's MySpace Blog
about KATSUNI / KATSUMI...the story
Hi Everybody,
It has been few months since you have seen some changes on my page and my official website www.clubkatsuni.com . A « M » has really been replaced by a « N »and « Katsumi » has became » KatsuNi »..Many of you reacted to alert me that I 've made a mistake, believing that it was an error of striking. It's true that I never explained to you why I made this sudden change in April 19th 2007. Nowadays I think that you had the opportunity to hear many informations about this change which is so subtle that it seems absurd. For those who don't know what happened, (especially if you don't live in France!), here is the story :
In November I found in my mail-box , a letter written by a lawyer who was defending the interests of a young woman called Miss Katsumi and who was ordering me to stop to use my stagename « Katsumi » IMME DIATLY . I won't lie to you. I was absolutly surprised and chocked. I didn't know that a japanese firstname, because it was rare in France and because an unknown woman in France owned it as a lastname, gave her the right to take it from me! Just write « Katsumi » on google and you will see millions of websites where Katsumi ca be sometimes an anime hero, a famous sumo,or a painter for exemple ; you will also find many dictionnaries of japanese firstnames where we can see that it's a common firstname for boy and girls!
However this is against me that this young lady complained. Why? The fact that she's compared or assimilated to a famous pornostar causes important damages to her life: she failed when she looks for a job,( but never showed up any letters from an employer who certified that it was because of her name..which would have been a kind of discrimation anyway), she had to put her name on red list (strange isn't it, when we know that it wasn't herself but her father who was in the white pages!), and of course she was victim of some unpleasant remarks and daily insults...(I still take the subway and in 7 years I've never been insulted in the street). In brief, you probably understood well : if it's obvious that it must be embarrassing to carry the same name than a pornostar, the reasons of her complaint have been far to be proved. However, even if I was quite surprised and indignant, I felt some commiseration for this girl , an ex- scout, desperate because of the unfair bad words that she seemed to be the victim.
Unfortunatly the judge who pronunciated his verdict on January 10th 2007 , had all the commiseration for her. While it was proven that I was practising my activity as an porn actress since 2001 that since I've started I was communicating on this pseudonym which was nothing else than a common firstname in Japan, while it was also shown that my career took an international largeness, that I was under contract in the United States and that I had stopped my career in France as an actress in order to develop my restructuring through my TV show on TPS Star, my tours of feature dancing, my new activity as a producer...and as a journalist....while I had expressed the will to protect my name by depositing it as a trademark to not have any problems of competition , the judge decided that I had to stop to use it. I know, for many people it seems trivial and for many of them to be an adult performer is even not a real job. « It's easy money ». « To be paid to just spread your legs, there's no reason to be proud of that! », « « There's no reason to complain when you see that in the same time, some people are working in the factory », and as Christine Bravo (from a french TV programm in « On n'a pas tout dit) was saying lately : « Do you realize that a teacher earns nothing more than 2000 euros a month? And you ? How much do you make every month? » Do I have to feel guilty to have chosen a job that I like, which allows me to open me out and where I succeeded in making my own place? Do you know how many girls work nowadays in the adult industry? We are hundreds of girls; most of us stop after 2 years ; the most part do not hold or continue the job but are disoriented, trapped by a system where money is quickly earned but where physical and moral resistance is necessary to stay. How many girls go out of the lot? How many girls manage to make a name, to exploit it themselves and to have a succesfull professionnal life thanks to their career in the adult industry?
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I only started to earn my living after 3 years of shootings ; until then I had just what I needed to pay my rent because I had to refuse some work, to be selective to create my status of « pornostar ». Yes, today I can say that : after more than 300 movies, a contract with Penthouse, Colmax and today with Digital Playground, the biggest company of high budget movies in the adult industry, after having received 27 awards all over the world, many years of sacrifice where I've only known hotels and airport, loneliness, the absence of a boyfriend, only living to be ready for the scene of the next day....after this long road that I will never regret, I can tell it and I'm proud of it, I earn my living well. It has been years since I'm saving my money because as anybody of you, I have a real simple dream: to afford to buy a nice appartment to raise one day my own family and have a nice life. It is no matter to feel sorry for this fate. I can't complain because I'm lucky to have a job that I love....that loves me and allows me to have good incomes.But here is the problem. Careers in this business are short and you can't sacrifice yourself your whole life. At 28, you aspire to new plans, to a life maybe more balanced , a fiance , a stable place where to live. It's time to build on all these fundations which asked for so much energy to be built. So you're ready to make a new step, to not be only the pretty doll which enjoys in front of the camera, but to be consequently a real business woman who, aware of her reputation, decides to exploit in her turn her name of which she made a true reference in the adult industry. You are therefore ready to make this step and at this definite instant, somebody that you absolutly don't know, somebody who has no link with you and with what you make, tightens the leg and makes you fall. First reactions: surprise, incomprehension; you think that it is an incident.You were just on her way. It's all right, you cross the road. But no , you're wrong. You lay on the ground and this personn shows you with her finger: « Because of you I can't hae a normal life anymore! Because of you I can't get a job, people are insulting me and don't stop calling me! You are guilty and you're going to pay for that! »
You must understand something. In our job and for anybody else who is an artist, this is your name which makes your work. Talent is the start and this is talent wich will make you last, but without any fame you're nobody and if you're nobody you still can sing in karaokes.What about me? What do I have left without my stagename? A pretty face? My pseudonym is a trademark, a quality guarantee ; write it on a boxcover, you will sell 3 times more.This is not me who's telling that...but an american producer who was telling me it already 3 years ago : « Your name make our movies sell. It's a chance for us to have you in our scenes! » Today I don't have the right anymore to use this name. In order to tranquilize things we found a deal : to not have any confusion anymore between the porno actress and the young parisian , a letter will be changed. The actress will be called « KATSUNI ». The difference is so subtle that it is absurd, but what do you want? It was the price of the peace....a peace which was supposed to start on April 19th 2007, date when both parties fell agree for this new stagename. So, my heart quite sad , I started immediatly to communicate on this new stagename which seemed to me so foreign. Yes « Katsuni », it's almost like « Katsumi », that's cute. But the fact is that it's a greek name and there's no link anymore with my asian backgrounds! And believe me , when you've carried a name for 9 years ( I was using it when I was a stripper), when even your friends call you like that, believe me, this name has something more than just a commercial value. I had to accept the Justice. Porn is dirty and it splashed an « illustre inconnue « . (« famous unknown »).
It was 6 months ago. My myspace page, my official website, my contacts, my feature dancing postcards and posters, my interviews, in France, in Italy, in USA, my new TV show on TPS STAR « La leçon de KATSUNI », TV shows in France with Taddei (France 3), VIP (Energie 12) , Toutaz (France 4), « Les grandes Vacances de canal « (Canal Plus) and lately « On n'a pas tout dit » (France 2)...EVERYTHING, everything taht I could control, all the medias I've been in touch with, all the ways I got to promote the new name have been used in order to delete the last one. « Please, now you really must call me KATSUNI, I insist! ». On September 26th, we will finally know if I must gie up to the name that I love so much ; of course I refused the judgement of January 10th and decided to fight to keep « Katsumi »..I wanted to prove that NO, this Miss Katsumi brings no proofs that she suffers because of our homonymy and NO we can't be assimilated physically, personnaly, or professionaly; NO she doesn't have the right to take me of what I deserved; it's not possible to accept the fact that my fame doesn't allow her to work when in the other side , by forbidding the right to use my name, she takes from me 7 years of career and doesn't allow me to develop my other activities.
You still can cross your fingers for me! The verdict will maybe say that I'm wrong and in this case I won't have the choice to carry the name of « Katsuni »...it's not the end of the world...but anyway I'm still punished and I must pay 27000 euros to not have enough communicated on the new name! I heard I should feel happy as I was supposed to pay 82000 euros...It seems to me that Miss Katsumi who has been contacted many times to be interviewed and who has refused, is not looking so much to be in a right situation...She's now more famous than ever, she can be happy that she can't be assimilate with me anymore. But to be compared, Miss Katsumi, yes, you will be always compared. Me I do not earn my living by destroying the life of the others.
about KATSUNI / KATSUMI...the story
Hi Everybody,
It has been few months since you have seen some changes on my page and my official website www.clubkatsuni.com . A « M » has really been replaced by a « N »and « Katsumi » has became » KatsuNi »..Many of you reacted to alert me that I 've made a mistake, believing that it was an error of striking. It's true that I never explained to you why I made this sudden change in April 19th 2007. Nowadays I think that you had the opportunity to hear many informations about this change which is so subtle that it seems absurd. For those who don't know what happened, (especially if you don't live in France!), here is the story :
In November I found in my mail-box , a letter written by a lawyer who was defending the interests of a young woman called Miss Katsumi and who was ordering me to stop to use my stagename « Katsumi » IMME DIATLY . I won't lie to you. I was absolutly surprised and chocked. I didn't know that a japanese firstname, because it was rare in France and because an unknown woman in France owned it as a lastname, gave her the right to take it from me! Just write « Katsumi » on google and you will see millions of websites where Katsumi ca be sometimes an anime hero, a famous sumo,or a painter for exemple ; you will also find many dictionnaries of japanese firstnames where we can see that it's a common firstname for boy and girls!
However this is against me that this young lady complained. Why? The fact that she's compared or assimilated to a famous pornostar causes important damages to her life: she failed when she looks for a job,( but never showed up any letters from an employer who certified that it was because of her name..which would have been a kind of discrimation anyway), she had to put her name on red list (strange isn't it, when we know that it wasn't herself but her father who was in the white pages!), and of course she was victim of some unpleasant remarks and daily insults...(I still take the subway and in 7 years I've never been insulted in the street). In brief, you probably understood well : if it's obvious that it must be embarrassing to carry the same name than a pornostar, the reasons of her complaint have been far to be proved. However, even if I was quite surprised and indignant, I felt some commiseration for this girl , an ex- scout, desperate because of the unfair bad words that she seemed to be the victim.
Unfortunatly the judge who pronunciated his verdict on January 10th 2007 , had all the commiseration for her. While it was proven that I was practising my activity as an porn actress since 2001 that since I've started I was communicating on this pseudonym which was nothing else than a common firstname in Japan, while it was also shown that my career took an international largeness, that I was under contract in the United States and that I had stopped my career in France as an actress in order to develop my restructuring through my TV show on TPS Star, my tours of feature dancing, my new activity as a producer...and as a journalist....while I had expressed the will to protect my name by depositing it as a trademark to not have any problems of competition , the judge decided that I had to stop to use it. I know, for many people it seems trivial and for many of them to be an adult performer is even not a real job. « It's easy money ». « To be paid to just spread your legs, there's no reason to be proud of that! », « « There's no reason to complain when you see that in the same time, some people are working in the factory », and as Christine Bravo (from a french TV programm in « On n'a pas tout dit) was saying lately : « Do you realize that a teacher earns nothing more than 2000 euros a month? And you ? How much do you make every month? » Do I have to feel guilty to have chosen a job that I like, which allows me to open me out and where I succeeded in making my own place? Do you know how many girls work nowadays in the adult industry? We are hundreds of girls; most of us stop after 2 years ; the most part do not hold or continue the job but are disoriented, trapped by a system where money is quickly earned but where physical and moral resistance is necessary to stay. How many girls go out of the lot? How many girls manage to make a name, to exploit it themselves and to have a succesfull professionnal life thanks to their career in the adult industry?
..>
..>
I only started to earn my living after 3 years of shootings ; until then I had just what I needed to pay my rent because I had to refuse some work, to be selective to create my status of « pornostar ». Yes, today I can say that : after more than 300 movies, a contract with Penthouse, Colmax and today with Digital Playground, the biggest company of high budget movies in the adult industry, after having received 27 awards all over the world, many years of sacrifice where I've only known hotels and airport, loneliness, the absence of a boyfriend, only living to be ready for the scene of the next day....after this long road that I will never regret, I can tell it and I'm proud of it, I earn my living well. It has been years since I'm saving my money because as anybody of you, I have a real simple dream: to afford to buy a nice appartment to raise one day my own family and have a nice life. It is no matter to feel sorry for this fate. I can't complain because I'm lucky to have a job that I love....that loves me and allows me to have good incomes.But here is the problem. Careers in this business are short and you can't sacrifice yourself your whole life. At 28, you aspire to new plans, to a life maybe more balanced , a fiance , a stable place where to live. It's time to build on all these fundations which asked for so much energy to be built. So you're ready to make a new step, to not be only the pretty doll which enjoys in front of the camera, but to be consequently a real business woman who, aware of her reputation, decides to exploit in her turn her name of which she made a true reference in the adult industry. You are therefore ready to make this step and at this definite instant, somebody that you absolutly don't know, somebody who has no link with you and with what you make, tightens the leg and makes you fall. First reactions: surprise, incomprehension; you think that it is an incident.You were just on her way. It's all right, you cross the road. But no , you're wrong. You lay on the ground and this personn shows you with her finger: « Because of you I can't hae a normal life anymore! Because of you I can't get a job, people are insulting me and don't stop calling me! You are guilty and you're going to pay for that! »
You must understand something. In our job and for anybody else who is an artist, this is your name which makes your work. Talent is the start and this is talent wich will make you last, but without any fame you're nobody and if you're nobody you still can sing in karaokes.What about me? What do I have left without my stagename? A pretty face? My pseudonym is a trademark, a quality guarantee ; write it on a boxcover, you will sell 3 times more.This is not me who's telling that...but an american producer who was telling me it already 3 years ago : « Your name make our movies sell. It's a chance for us to have you in our scenes! » Today I don't have the right anymore to use this name. In order to tranquilize things we found a deal : to not have any confusion anymore between the porno actress and the young parisian , a letter will be changed. The actress will be called « KATSUNI ». The difference is so subtle that it is absurd, but what do you want? It was the price of the peace....a peace which was supposed to start on April 19th 2007, date when both parties fell agree for this new stagename. So, my heart quite sad , I started immediatly to communicate on this new stagename which seemed to me so foreign. Yes « Katsuni », it's almost like « Katsumi », that's cute. But the fact is that it's a greek name and there's no link anymore with my asian backgrounds! And believe me , when you've carried a name for 9 years ( I was using it when I was a stripper), when even your friends call you like that, believe me, this name has something more than just a commercial value. I had to accept the Justice. Porn is dirty and it splashed an « illustre inconnue « . (« famous unknown »).
It was 6 months ago. My myspace page, my official website, my contacts, my feature dancing postcards and posters, my interviews, in France, in Italy, in USA, my new TV show on TPS STAR « La leçon de KATSUNI », TV shows in France with Taddei (France 3), VIP (Energie 12) , Toutaz (France 4), « Les grandes Vacances de canal « (Canal Plus) and lately « On n'a pas tout dit » (France 2)...EVERYTHING, everything taht I could control, all the medias I've been in touch with, all the ways I got to promote the new name have been used in order to delete the last one. « Please, now you really must call me KATSUNI, I insist! ». On September 26th, we will finally know if I must gie up to the name that I love so much ; of course I refused the judgement of January 10th and decided to fight to keep « Katsumi »..I wanted to prove that NO, this Miss Katsumi brings no proofs that she suffers because of our homonymy and NO we can't be assimilated physically, personnaly, or professionaly; NO she doesn't have the right to take me of what I deserved; it's not possible to accept the fact that my fame doesn't allow her to work when in the other side , by forbidding the right to use my name, she takes from me 7 years of career and doesn't allow me to develop my other activities.
You still can cross your fingers for me! The verdict will maybe say that I'm wrong and in this case I won't have the choice to carry the name of « Katsuni »...it's not the end of the world...but anyway I'm still punished and I must pay 27000 euros to not have enough communicated on the new name! I heard I should feel happy as I was supposed to pay 82000 euros...It seems to me that Miss Katsumi who has been contacted many times to be interviewed and who has refused, is not looking so much to be in a right situation...She's now more famous than ever, she can be happy that she can't be assimilate with me anymore. But to be compared, Miss Katsumi, yes, you will be always compared. Me I do not earn my living by destroying the life of the others.