Apple tries to nab ‘podcast’
p2p news / p2pnet:- Apple the Avaricious is trying to virtually collar podcast as a company trademark.
It’s filed two applications with the United States Patent and Trademark Office for an ‘iPodcast’ trademark, says AppleInsider.
The first covers hardware-related goods, and the second, “requests that the iPodcast trademark cover services, including ‘telecommunications services; communication by computer, computer intercommunication; telex, telegram and telephone services; rental, hire and leasing of communications apparatus and of electronic mailboxes; electronic bulletin board services,’ etc,” says AppleInsider.
Apple has already “been chastised” for creating proprietary tags within the document type definition (DTD) it released to support Podcasting in iTunes 4.9, the story points out, going on, “Reports suggested that move was ‘part of an unsupported effort to make the iTunes DTD proprietary, and a Podcast’s inclusion in the iTunes catalog exclusive to Apple’.
AppleInsider also believes iTunes will become the Net’s “premier Podcast resource.” (Apple sure a hell hopes so ; ) But it hasn’t yet used ‘iPodcast’ for its music products, adds the post.
Yesterday, we had a promo email from WGBH Boston which said, “I thought you may like to learn that NOVA’s E=mc2 podcast has enjoyed a surprise success and hit the top ranking on iTunes listing of free podcasts.”
p2pnet’s Jon Newton replied, “Did the podcast show as well anywhere else?
“For me, iTunes doesn’t represent podcasts : )”
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See:-
AppleInsider – Apple files for Podcasting trademark, September 14, 2005
