Noah's story about Wired trademarking Digital Revolution (tm) is at: http://pathfinder.com/netly/editorial/0,1012,192,00.html " Have our friends at Wired gone mad? We always thought the Digital RevolutionĀ was about freedom of information, erasing of boundaries, creating global community, throwing off the shackles of government and evoking a spirit of unfettered, bottom-up business and entrepreneurialism. Was this yet another case of lawyers running amok? Or was it pre- Initial Public Offering jitters on Wired's part? -Declan At 09:52 -0700 6/27/97, Tim May wrote:
At 7:16 AM -0700 6/27/97, Declan McCullagh wrote:
journalists. "Today is the first day of the new American Revolution, the Digital Revolution.." (A phrase that happens to be trademarked by Wired, a sponsor of the rally.)
I really hope Declan is kidding when he says this phrase, or parts of it, or some variant of it, is "trademarked" by "Wired." If so, we're in deep shit.
(A phrase trademarked by the Nixon Administration, 1972.)
"Wired" seems increasingly to think it owns the birthright of the Net and all that came from it.
I wonder if someone has claimed trademark on any of these expressions:
"Big Brother Inside"
"Four Horsemen of the Infocalypse"
"National borders are only speed bumps on the information superhighway"
"citizen-unit"
"BlackNet"
"crypto anarchy"
--Tim
There's something wrong when I'm a felon under an increasing number of laws. Only one response to the key grabbers is warranted: "Death to Tyrants!" ---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---- Timothy C. May | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money, tcmay@got.net 408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA | knowledge, reputations, information markets, Higher Power: 2^1398269 | black markets, collapse of governments. "National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."
------------------------- Declan McCullagh Time Inc. The Netly News Network Washington Correspondent http://netlynews.com/