MIT's Tech Review Sues AOL And CNET
from the I'm-not-taking-sides dept
Okay. So, I know that people from MIT's Tech Review read Techdirt, and often contact me about the site. I also know that people at AOL-Time Warner read the site (and contact me as well). And, as most of you know, we have a pretty close relationship with a bunch of folks at CNET as well. So, I refuse to take any sides whatsoever in the lawsuit involving all three companies. MIT's Technology Review is suing AOL and CNET for working on a magazine called Fortune/CNet Technology Review. Oh, what the hell. MIT has used that name for over a hundred years. Anyone who reads technology news associates the words "Technology Review" with MIT. If I were AOL and CNET, I'd come up with a different name. Hell, with the way these tech/business magazines are going under, I'm sure there will be plenty of options to steal a defunct name. For example, there's Business 2.0 which AOL already bought...
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You are kidding, right? What's next? Will MIT also sue the National Review and Harvard Law Review?
If AOL or CNET was using the word "MIT" in their title that might make sense. But "Technology Review" is awfully generic.
Hey, while MIT's at it why don't they sue all the other universities that follow the XIT pattern? Florida/California/Etc Institute of Technology, etc.
Perhaps this really signals the increasing irrelevance of MIT to our economy and world.
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I Concur
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Mike, do your feelings about "Techonology Review" have anything to do with your going to MIT? Did you? I honestly have never even heard of this magazine, and I have done quite well in technology.
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