The latest episode of the “Get the Download” podcast features a discussion with attorney Colette Vogele, one of the authors of the Creative Commons Podcasting Legal Guide. Interviewed by Volo Media‘s Jeff Karnes, Vogele discusses intellectual property law, including copyright, trademark, and privacy, and how it relates to new media and podcasting. Colette also addresses [...]

The US Patent & Trademark Office has published Apple‚Äôs trademark for podcasting, right, trademark application number 77235043. The logo is used by Apple within iTunes and on its site to represent podcasting. Apple describes the mark like this: “The mark consists of a stylized person or antenna surrounded by concentric circles/broadcast waves.” The trademark is [...]

It looks like iPod Monday at Des Moines, Iowa’s The Lift bar may be coming to an end. Apple wants The Lift to stop using the name “iPod Monday” to describe the bar’s weekly event in which patrons get together and share their musical tastes via their iPods. “Please choose a name for your product [...]

Cisco has announced that it has filed a lawsuit in the United States District Court for the Northern District of California against Apple, Inc., seeking to prevent Apple from using the company’s registered iPhone trademark. Earlier in the week, Apple announced their iPhone – a new device that combines a state-of-the-art mobile phone, a widescreen [...]

Mark Chally, creator of the PodPod acrylic portable device stand (above), is one of the companies and individuals that Apple has contacted regarding marketing products using the term “pod”. Here’s his take on the “pod” trademark issue: Apple claims there may be “confusion” between the iPod and PodPod marks. I consider this claim absurd. No [...]

On Friday, Wired published an item that suggested that Apple was trying to make “podcast” its own trademark and keep others from using the term. The company recently sent cease and desist letters to MyPodder, which makes podcast software for portable MP3 players. “Will Apple succeed in defending the word “podcast” as its own trademark?” [...]