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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.

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You are even free to try to sell it and make money if you want. We released it to the public domain under the WTF license. But you are most certainly free to offer up Approaching Infinity however you like it.

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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. 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. I’m going to start a compelling scraper blog to TechDirt. 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. Would Jobs have been okay if John, Paul, Ringo and George had simply told him “Change your company name. Of course, at this point it seems worth pointing out that years long battle Jobs fought with the Beatles’ Apple Corp. Someone involved with the company actually sent Steve Jobs an email about the whole situation, and got the response:

While lawyers told him he could successfully fight Apple on this, the guy gave in and is in the process of changing the name to iRip. It’s even told the guy that even if he rebrands his app, he can’t even say that it’s the app “formerly known as” iPodRip.

Reader mick alerts us to the story of a small eight-person startup that makes a popular app for backing up your iPod music, which had been called “iPodRip” until Steve Jobs and Apple’s lawyers got involved, demanding the company cease using the name and hand over its domain. Wed, Nov 25th 2009 06:05pm - Mike Masnick