From: Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
Date: Sat, 28 Jun 1997 03:21:14 +0800
To: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
Subject: Re: "Wired" is trademarking the future?
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Noah's story about Wired trademarking Digital Revolution (tm) is at:

  http://pathfinder.com/netly/editorial/0,1012,192,00.html

	"  Have our friends at Wired gone mad? We always thought the
	Digital Revolution was about freedom of information, erasing
	of boundaries, creating global community, throwing off the
	shackles of government and evoking a spirit of unfettered,
	bottom-up business and entrepreneurialism. Was this yet another
	case of lawyers running amok? Or was it pre- Initial Public
	Offering jitters on Wired's part?

-Declan


At 09:52 -0700 6/27/97, Tim May wrote:
>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!"
>---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:---------:----
>Timothy C. May              | Crypto Anarchy: encryption, digital money,
>tcmay@got.net  408-728-0152 | anonymous networks, digital pseudonyms, zero
>W.A.S.T.E.: Corralitos, CA  | knowledge, reputations, information markets,
>Higher Power: 2^1398269     | black markets, collapse of governments.
>"National borders aren't even speed bumps on the information superhighway."



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Declan McCullagh
Time Inc.
The Netly News Network
Washington Correspondent
http://netlynews.com/