But, of course, when you’ve got lawyers who can bully on your behalf, the details apparently aren’t that important.įiled Under: ipod, ipodrip, irip, name change, steve jobs, trademark Not that big of a deal”? Now, yes, it is true that a company needs to enforce its trademark, lest it become generic, but in this case it certainly seems like the name was descriptive in a way that certainly didn’t imply endorsement from Apple. I’m going to start a compelling scraper blog to TechDirt. I’ll add functionality not available here, and call it MikeDirt to honor the original.īut, we’ll have other things like story intakes from PR people which will help fund Free online Do-It-Yourself T-Shirt design & store. We’ll also have “free” song of the week and on the 50th visit, visitors will be able to download a pirated, PDF version of Mike’s book “Approaching Infinity” (Pop-up windows says “Psst, Wanna free book?”)Ĭool, though I’d suggest that users might find the pop ups annoying. But you are most certainly free to offer up Approaching Infinity however you like it. We released it to the public domain under the WTF license. You are even free to try to sell it and make money if you want. I just want to see how long it will take before Mike gets angry and posts another one of his 5 page walls of text about original content and scraper blogs, and calls it stupid and how MikeDirt may confuse people. No, why would we do that? We’re all for you setting up your own sites to help promote our content.
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