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September 25, 2006
Apple Goes After "Podcast"
Now that Apple's lawyers have scared the pants off of small entrepreneurs selling products like the Profit Pod and TightPod -- items that have nothing to with portable audio in any way, mind you -- it seems that the next targets are companies that have the audacity to use the word "podcast" in their names.
With "pod" on lockdown, Apple goes after "podcast" - Engadget
Posted by jasonogrady at September 25, 2006 10:01 AM
Category: Legal
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This really sickens me... the POD word is free to use and APPLE is less of a company I admire and more one I loathe. Yeah go ahead and say it "everyone else does it" or 'they have to protect their...", how much of our vocabulary will be so trade-marked or serviced-marked in 50 years that new products or services wanting to use a word as "part" of their brand name will be left with nothing.
Will APPLE now pressure and sue companies who use "apple" in their company name or product names that have nothing to do with desktop computers? Stupid.
Tired of Apples useless banter and tirades.
I hope someone has the money to take this all the way and knock them down a notch... hopefully some fortune 500 company who has a stake in the name.
i.e., http://pods.com/
Posted by: brian at September 26, 2006 11:37 AM
