In a surprise move following their cancellation of the Washington Redskins’ trademark registration, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has canceled the Buffalo Bills’ trademark registration, following complaints the Bills’ name discriminates against those named Bob, Dan and Joe. Trademarks that discriminate against those with other names and hurt people’s feelings are not permitted under…
Historically, record companies, its labels and performers have had a pretty good deal with radio. Radio gives the labels free advertising for their songs, while the labels give radio the tunes to play free of charge, excluded music licensing fees that pay composers. A quid pro quo as they say in Latin. Or as they…
Mark Cuban, the billionaire owner of the Dallas Mavericks, recently warned the NFL to watch its overexposure. Without reeling that exposure in some and understanding its core mission, the league was at risk of destroying itself. The NFL is about football. Physically freakish men moving a ball up and down a field while pounding on…
It was a Saturday morning a number of years ago and the radio station I programmed, WTVN in Columbus, had this talk show called “Saturday Morning Open Phones.” Basically, conspiracy nuts called up to spew their seditious opinions to a disinterested host. One weekend a caller suggested President Clinton should take a head shot. Within…
The federal Highway Trust Fund is broke. What’s not broke in Washington? Think about how our world has changed since the interstate highways were built in America. Living in Cincinnati, if I want to drive up to Chicago for the day and back – no problem. Cleveland? 4 hours away. I’ve driven to Atlanta and…
When running for office in 2007, the then junior Senator from Illinois, Barack Obama, was asked the following: “Would you make it a priority in your first year of office to reinstate net neutrality as the law of the land? And would you pledge to only appoint FCC commissioners that support open internet principals like…
Here’s some tax day trivia. It was Abraham Lincoln, a Republican President, who created the first income tax in the United States in 1861. The money was used to fund the Civil War. The tax form was 4 pages, one page of instructions, two pages for itemizing and the final summary page (shown above). It…
The average salary for the worker bees of America is about $48,000 annually. A member of congress makes $174,000 a year. And that’s before benefits. It seems Virginia House Democrat James P. Moran thinks he and his fellow congressman are being abused and not paid enough. He plans to make sure this injustice is made…
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