The End of Podcasting?

Mr_Cosmic

The End of Podcasting?

James Logan freely admits that he's never made a podcast.

But he also insists he helped create the medium of podcasting. Logan says that it happened in 1996 — and that he has the patents to prove it.

In a controversial legal battle, PersonalAudio, the company founded by Logan, is suing comedian Adam Carolla's ACE Broadcasting, two other podcasters and networks Fox, CBS and NBC, saying they are infringing on his copyright and owe him money.

Ugh, patent trolls.

luckymustard

Supposedly Frank Zappa came up with the essential idea of podcasting before then in a book he wrote.

SolitaireRose

Marc Maron has been talking about this dirtbag for over a year:

http://www.dailydot.com/entertainment/marc-maron-podcast-patent-interview/

He'll get stomped out of court.

luckymustard

And more recently Nerdist talked a little about it.

Eric_C

If you listen to the Adam Carolla Show, he is the one spearheading the fight agents the patent trolls. Here is the link to the fundanything page for it. http://fundanything.com/patenttroll?locale=en