{"id":2110,"date":"2009-11-24T15:07:20","date_gmt":"2009-11-24T19:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/?p=2110"},"modified":"2009-11-24T15:07:25","modified_gmt":"2009-11-24T19:07:25","slug":"ipodrip-renamed-irip","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2009\/11\/24\/ipodrip-renamed-irip\/","title":{"rendered":"iPodRip Renamed iRip"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/thelittleappfactory.tumblr.com\/post\/251053447\/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-ipodrips\">The Little App Factory<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/thelittleappfactory.tumblr.com\/post\/251053447\/so-long-and-thanks-for-all-the-ipodrips\"><p>Now, you may be saying that we deserve it for using Apple&rsquo;s trademark but no, in Australia it doesn&rsquo;t work that way. Our Trademark Act of 1995 states that if &ldquo;the person uses the trade mark in good faith to indicate the intended purpose of goods&rdquo; then we are not causing an infringement. When we created the name back in 2003 it was quite simple: Apple was advertising &ldquo;Rip, Mix and Burn&rdquo; and my software ripped your iPod back to your computer. Hence, the logical conclusion was iPodRip.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>They couldn&rsquo;t rename it &ldquo;PodRip,&rdquo; either. <a href=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2009\/11\/24\/irip\">John Gruber<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/daringfireball.net\/linked\/2009\/11\/24\/irip\"><p>That&rsquo;s crummy. &ldquo;iPod&rdquo; is Apple&rsquo;s. &ldquo;Pod&rdquo; is just a word.<\/p><\/blockquote>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Little App Factory: Now, you may be saying that we deserve it for using Apple&rsquo;s trademark but no, in Australia it doesn&rsquo;t work that way. Our Trademark Act of 1995 states that if &ldquo;the person uses the trade mark in good faith to indicate the intended purpose of goods&rdquo; then we are not causing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2110","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2110"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2111,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2110\/revisions\/2111"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2110"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2110"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2110"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}