You can't copyright a name. The issue would be with trademarks, and SciFi might have wanted to avoid dilution with the prevalence of DVRs.
Until a few years ago, anything that said "SciFi" on screen was the channel. Now you can search by genre, pull up program information, etc. SyFy might just be easier for them to control. Whether that's the actual reason they changed their name, who knows.
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i heard that the reason for the rebrand was because the name Sci Fi could not be copyrighted because it is a genre.
You can't copyright a name. The issue would be with trademarks, and SciFi might have wanted to avoid dilution with the prevalence of DVRs.
Until a few years ago, anything that said "SciFi" on screen was the channel. Now you can search by genre, pull up program information, etc. SyFy might just be easier for them to control. Whether that's the actual reason they changed their name, who knows.