Yes, it does seem quite ridiculous that the term could be co-opted in this
manner. As suggested in the blog, we should be sure to at least write the
people at the company to tell them of our concerns/outrage. Does anyone have
other suggestions for action?

David


? Quoting Susana M Kaiser <[log in to unmask]>:

> 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 <
> [log in to unmask]> wrote:
>
> > 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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