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What to call this decade...

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Zippy Simpson

I got an e-mail today from "Entrepreneur Scott Pedersen" of Ithaca, NY today, where he says he owns the registered trademarks of several terms that refer to the first decade of the current century. He's basically wanting to stations to license use of one of the five terms he's trademarked (stations that promote that they play "the best of the 80's, 90's and today," for instance). Not a bad move...but I do wonder if he secured the rights to use the images of Paris Hilton, Pete Rose, NASDAQ, Fisher Price, Janet Jackson and ENRON (among others) on his website?

I'm not going to put a link to his site, but if you'll Google "Entrepreneur Scott Pedersen" you'll find it immediately.
 
With chutzpah like that, "Entremanure Scott" should be ghost-writing those e-mails from Tanzgorkia, being pleased to be of advising to us on this we hope most wonderful day in your life that you have being the winner of our recent national lottery for which you must pay the $265 processing fee.

Reminds me of a clown back in the early 1980s who wrote me, when I was PD at AOR K94/KSMB LafayetteLA, to inform me that he had just service-marked the phrase "Classic Rock" and that if my station had any desire to use that phrase in any of our promotional efforts, we must first negotiate the rights with him. Never received a reply to my return letter, stating that I had just s-m'd (oooh, sounds like fun) the phrases "The time is ___," "Present temperature, ___" and a few other things that were being said almost every break at that time.

But, as Jimmy Sacca of The Hilltoppers once sang, "You can't blame a fella...for tryyyyyyyyyying."
 
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