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Re: "Radical media" as a trademark
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Susana M Kaiser <[log in to unmask]>
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Susana M Kaiser <[log in to unmask]>
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Fri, 13 May 2011 08:33:05 -0700
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I agree with this. John Downing's book Radical Media was published many
years ago. susana

On Fri, May 13, 2011 at 7:34 AM, Alfonso Gumucio-Dagron <
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> This is absolutely preposterous!
>
> John Downing, if anyone, would have the right to do it, but of course it is
> against his and our principles. Let's ignore it and see how far they will
> get, they cannot stop or jail thousands of people.
>
> Unfortunately we seem to be loosing ground to corporate interests. We lost
> the http://www.ourmedianet.org/ URL after loosing http://www.ourmedia.org/
>
> A.
>
> On 12 May 2011 21:57, <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
>> An advertising company has apparently claimed ownership over the term
>> ?Radical Media? and has threatened legal action against organisers of an
>> upcoming conference in the UK for calling the conference ?Radical Media?.
>>
>> See http://radicalmediaconference.wordpress.com/
>> Thanks to Patrick McCurdy for highlighting the story in his blog:
>> http://patrickmccurdy.wordpress.com/
>>
>
>


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Susana Kaiser, Ph.D.
Associate Professor, Media Studies
Chair, Latin American Studies
University of San Francisco
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