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Apple authorizes use of ‘podcast’

Wednesday, November 29, 2006 · 10:10 am · 16 Comments

“Remember in October when Dave Gray, one of the hosts of TPN’s GlobalGeek podcast, sent a letter to Apple with a cheque for $1 for using the term ‘podcast?’ I thought he was just kidding around but apparently he did actually send the letter and the check – to Steve Jobs. Seriously,” Cameron Reilly reports for The Podcast Network. “Well… yesterday he got a reply.”

The letter from “Apple Trademark Department” reads in part:
We are returning your check for $1. Apple does not object to third-party usage of the generic term ‘podcast’ to accurately refer to podcasting services. Apple does not license the term ‘podcast’.

Full article, with a copy of Apple’s letter to Gray, here.

Related article:
Apple squawks over ‘podcast’ use – September 25, 2006

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16 Comments

G4Dualie

Wednesday, November 29, 2006 - 11:13 am · Reply

Good faith gesture by both parties…
Zune to be gone

Wednesday, November 29, 2006 - 11:14 am · Reply

I wonder if Microsoft will license ZuneCasting………
hagar57

Wednesday, November 29, 2006 - 11:20 am · Reply

all those porn producers beware, the term ‘squirt’ is now owned by Microsoft
The MacDaddy-Oh!

Wednesday, November 29, 2006 - 11:28 am · Reply

ZuneCasting……is that what George Lucas did for the last 3 Star Wars fiascos? Or was it just ZuneScripting?
Jimbo von Winskinheimer

Wednesday, November 29, 2006 - 11:28 am · Reply

Zunecasting – isn’t that another term for what monkeys do – flinging poo?
DLMeyer

Wednesday, November 29, 2006 - 11:30 am · Reply

Maybe someday (SOON?) the term will be recognized by official Apple dictionaries?

DLMeyer – the Voice of G.L.Horton’s Stage Page
ak

Wednesday, November 29, 2006 - 11:32 am · Reply

Apple never tried to take over rights of “podcast”.

Everyone mis reported it back then and now

“…Apple, of course, has no general objection to proper use of the descriptive term ‘podcast’ as part of a trademark for goods and services offered in the podcasting field”

http://blog.wired.com/music/2006/09/apples_letter_t.html?entry_id=1562695
john

Wednesday, November 29, 2006 - 12:07 pm · Reply

Good job Steve Jobs!
tt

Wednesday, November 29, 2006 - 12:10 pm · Reply

This has always been the case, people just wanted to bitch. Dont call your product a podcasting whatchamacallit, call your podcast a pod cast.. end of discussion.
ndelc

Wednesday, November 29, 2006 - 12:12 pm · Reply

If people would have read the facts of the original story, they’d know that Apple wasn’t trying to own the term “podcast”. Is it lack of basic comprehension skills or just plain laziness? I don’t know.
ChrissyOne

Wednesday, November 29, 2006 - 12:56 pm · Reply

I think the term ‘SquirtCasting’ is really gonna take off with the kidz.
It’ll be totally fetch.

‘scuse me… I have to go listen to some emo.

-c

MW: ‘times’ (are a changin’)
mmo

Wednesday, November 29, 2006 - 1:47 pm · Reply

now maybe the sell out Leo Laport can now go back to calling his Netcasts to Podcasts. I don’t get how he has a show called MacBreak, but constantly supports Microsoft and Dell, and now he has Dell ads on the MacBreak website. I used to value his opinion, but now I think he just panders to his Ad dollars.
Malthus

Wednesday, November 29, 2006 - 2:23 pm · Reply

“Maybe someday (SOON?) the term will be recognized by official Apple dictionaries?”

This is especially ironic, since the New Oxford American Dictionary, which Apple uses, chose “podcast” as its word of the year for 2005…
BustingTheSkullsOfIdiots

Wednesday, November 29, 2006 - 4:29 pm · Reply

Is anyone who uses the term “netcast” worth listening to? I mean, really.
drmacnut

Thursday, November 30, 2006 - 3:10 am · Reply

Yes, let’s hope Leo Laporte, who is an excellent speaker and podcast host, can get himself back on track again. He needs to remember that the old ZDNet/TechTV days and his “down to earth” attitude are what helped him to become as popular and respected as he is today in the tech world.

He needs to stay humble. Obviously, he has to do that at the same time as making money, but lately he has been making comments (during his podcasts) which imply that he is thinking more about ad revenue and monetization than cultivating the gritty, personable, and tech-geek style that we all came to know and love.

I don’t want to go too far off on a tangent, but Leo’s “Netcasts you love /from people you trust” intro that goes into all the TWIT network shows is REALLY annoying! It’s making his shows sound exactly like those big broadcast TV/Cable networks that are the very antithesis of podcasts.

I like Leo a lot, and I wish him the best.

/end of my 2 cents
Road Warrior

Thursday, November 30, 2006 - 5:16 pm · Reply

While podcasting makes sense cause it is a successful word that describes what comes from an ipod, I think that some reflection should be given for the Zune as most people will not be casting from the Zune but casting the zune somewhere.

While “Zunecasting” may become popular I suspect “CastingZune” will be just as (ir)relavant.

Examples: “Wow he was throwing up and casting zune.”
“Wow, you sure cast a zuneload.”

I think it might also replace a brick sh*tload, seeing that they are so similar”

“He cast a zune so far it hit zune tang”