Techcrush Problems
Posted on September 21, 2006
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America found ways of trademarking everyday phrases. Americans patent software. Techcrunch seems to be the one putting the squeeze on techcrush - the issue we blogged earlier.
Techcrush checks out techcrunched sites 6 and 12 months after they got the Arrington breeze through.
I see a big swing over the pond. I’ve had Jay Rosen on this site today irate, clearly, that he’s been criticised. Arrington of techcrunch fame seems to feel equally, or more, impervious to challenge.
We face a problem where the weight of web opinion is concentrated in too few hands and techcrush did a little to put spaces between techcrunch’s web idiom. I applaud them.
This is the Stowe Boyd’s take on it: “Looks like Mike Arrington has fallen into the Tim O’Reilly bind: his lawyers are telling him that the newly-launched TechCrush (a blog on my recommendation, in TechMunch Begets TechCrush) is infringing on the TechCrunch trademark. The TechCrush guys do not want to tangle with Arrington’s high-powered legal help.”
Legal help - on blogs. Perleeesse.
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