Wednesday, August 16, 2006
When Apple owns “Pod”, what do we owe?
Apple has decided that it owns the word Pod and it intends to use legal channels to formalize that claim. For a company that was attempting to demonstrate leadership in the social media movement, it is going out of its way to prove otherwise.
I don’t know the legal system very well and I can’t begin to guess what Apple plans to do if it does win its claim on the word Pod. I do have to wonder what will happen to everyone who has a Podcast, what kind of damages a dictionary publisher will be on the hook for, and if the RIAA will treat this as an attempt to reverse engineer the book and movie versions of 2001: A Space Odyssey.
Source: Paul Colligan
