History

Many individuals and groups including Dawn and Drew of The Dawn and Drew Show, Kris and Betsy Smith of Croncast and Dan Klass of The Bitterest Pill contributed to the aboriginal actualization and acceptance of podcasts.15 Former MTV VJ Adam Curry is accustomed with advancing up with the abstraction to automate the supply and syncing of textual agreeable to carriageable audio players.16 The aboriginal appliance to accomplish this action achievable was iPodderX, developed by August Trometer and Ray Slakinski. Since the 1930s there accept been radio allocution shows and account programs. Today, through the change of the internet capabilities, forth with cheaper accouterments and software, audio podcasts are accomplishing what was historically done through radio advertisement stations.17

In June 2005, Apple appear iTunes 4.9 with built-in abutment for podcasts. While this fabricated accepting podcasts added convenient, it finer concluded advance of the podcast average by absolute developers. To add to the cooling factor, Apple issued Cease and Abandon orders to abounding podcast appliance developers and account providers for appliance the appellation "iPod" or "Pod" in the name of their product.

The logo acclimated by Apple to represent Podcasting

editTrademark applications

February 10, 2005, Shae Spencer Management LLC of Fairport, New York filed a brand appliance to annals podcast for an "online prerecorded radio affairs over the internet". On September 9, 2005, the United States Patent and Brand Office alone the application, citation Wikipedia's podcast access as anecdotic the history of the term. The aggregation adapted their appliance in March 2006, but the USPTO alone the adapted appliance as not abundantly differentiated from the original. In November 2006, the appliance was apparent as abandoned.18

As of September 20, 2005, accepted trademarks that attempted to capitalize on podcast include: GodCast, Podcast Realty, GuidePod, Pod-Casting, MyPod, Podvertiser, Podango, ePodcast, PodCabin, Podcaster, PodcastPeople, PodShop, PodKitchen, Podgram, GodPod and Podcast.19 By February 2007, there had been 24 attempts to annals trademarks absolute the chat "PODCAST" in United States, but alone "PODCAST READY" from Podcast Ready, Inc. was approved.20

editApple brand protections

On September 26, 2006, it was appear that Apple started to able down on businesses appliance the acronym "POD", in artefact and aggregation names. Apple beatific a cease and abandon letter that anniversary to Podcast Ready, Inc., which markets an appliance accepted as "myPodder".21 Lawyers for Apple arguable that the appellation "pod" has been acclimated by the accessible to accredit to Apple's music amateur so abundantly that it avalanche beneath Apple's brand cover.22 It was speculated that such action was allotment of a bigger attack for Apple to aggrandize the ambit of its absolute iPod trademark, which included trademarking "IPODCAST", "IPOD", and "POD".23 On November 16, 2006, the Apple Brand Department declared that Apple does not article to third affair acceptance of "the all-encompassing term" "podcast" to accredit to podcasting casework and that Apple does not authorization the term. However, no account was fabricated whether Apple believes they authority rights to it