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/ > >> > > > > > > > -- > Susana Kaiser, Ph.D. > Associate Professor, Media Studies > Chair, Latin American Studies > University of San Francisco > Kalmanowitz Hall 147 > 2130 Fulton Street > San Francisco, CA 94117-1080 > Tel: 415-422-5141 > Fax: 415-422-5680 > E-mail: [log in to unmask] > -- David Skinner Associate Professor Chair Department of Communication Studies York University 4700 Keele St. Toronto, Ontario Canada, M3J-1P3 Tel. 416-736-2100, ext. 33853