"Wired" is trademarking the future?
Declan McCullagh
declan at well.com
Fri Jun 27 12:21:14 PDT 1997
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 Revolution 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 at 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/
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