I strongly agree with this. I realize it's "business as usual" for more traditional media businesses to use award shows as a way to scratch the backs of their VIPs and biggest stakeholders, but I find something like that entirely disingenuous in the case of PodTech and the Vloggies. Not only that, but it's bad business sense in a market where the largest stakeholders are ill defined and change every few months.
-- Rhett. http://www.weatherlight.com/freetime http://www.weatherlight.com/greentime > John, this is why you have to talk about this here and not on the > phone with someone. If you want to engage this community then engage > us. You can't have private, offline conversations about things like > this. > > For everyone else, if you don't like the way PodTech is handling > things then DON'T LET THEM HANDLE IT. Don't participate in their > awards show and don't accept any awards. If nobody recognizes "The > Vloggies" then it doesn't matter who owns the trademark. If you still > want awards then someone will have to organize the community to do it. > > - Verdi > > > On 7/24/07, Kent Nichols <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> Off-list? If you want to engage my professional services, contact my >> agents. Barrett Garese at UTA. >> >> If you want to talk about the Vloggies, let's talk about the Vloggies >> here in public. >> >> I support an open awards show that is owned by no company. I think >> that >> Trademarking Vloggies gives your company too much control. The Oscars >> are owned by the film industry, and the Emmys are owned by the TV >> industry. There were several sponsors last year, don't they also have >> as much right to the mark of the Vloggies as PodTech? >> >> Oh but you have more rights don't you? Because the person that came >> up >> with the idea, the person that organized it and made it a success was >> on >> your dime... The person that was just let go, right after the >> Trademark >> was filed... >> >> By landgrabbing "Vloggies", you are trying to own an industry, which is >> unconscionable. >> >> You guys are smart, you're just caught in a lot of bad decisions. >> >> You should donate that mark to the Creative Commons, or EFF, or create >> a >> new non-profit that will run the awards. That would be the right thing >> to do, and might start repairing the PR nightmare you guys are >> experiencing right now. >> >> -Kent, askaninja.com >> >> >> --- In [email protected], John Furrier <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >> wrote: >> > >> > Kent, >> > Email me if you'd like to get involved and we can chat off list >> > >> > John > > > -- > http://michaelverdi.com > http://spinxpress.com > http://freevlog.org > Author of Secrets Of Videoblogging - http://tinyurl.com/me4vs > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > >
