From: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 1997 01:04:33 +0800
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
Subject: "Wired" is trademarking the future?
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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!"
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