In an interesting note on released WWE talents, while it was commonly known that the released talents are not permitted to promote themselves under their WWE moniker following their release, unless they own the rights to that name, a report from The Wrestling Observer notes that the talent are now also not permitted to sign anything under their old WWE name.

The report notes that this means that the talents can not sign their WWE name on anything at autograph signings and such and must sign under their real name or a newly-created name of which they have created and that this effectively falls in line with the WWE owning all intellectual property, including a WWE superstar’s ring name.