According to the article the currently named DEMF Inc. is planning on doing
a "DEMF tour". Isn't the whole point of the festival to GO TO Detroit for
the music?
I can see wanting to bring it to the people but why do that? Everyone will
just wait for it to come to their town and never experience Detroit City.
What good is that?!
"DEMF Inc. also plans to launch a weekly radio program entitled "The
DEMF: Detroit Electronic Music Frequency" to carry the message of Detroit
and the electronic culture to a greater audience. DEMF Inc. is also
planning to launch a quarterly publication, DEMF Tour, television
broadcasts and recordings to further promote the achievement of the
event, the city and the best of today's electronic music and
entertainment scene."
"Marvin agreed. "We have never been limited in our vision of the DEMF by
its location or just one weekend in this city," says Marvin. "It has
always been our goal to take what we've invested in and produced and to
incorporate its creative energy into our city on a daily basis in support
of the community we serve."
So taking the festival OUT of the city will support Detroit how?? It might
make the music more visible but it won't draw people into the city itself.
Won't bring any money into other sectors of the city - hotels, restaurants,
car rentals, museums, theatres, tax revenues, record shops, airport,
parking garages, etc.
Why go to Detroit to hear the music when I can go to Chicago when the tour
stops there, or catch the show in L.A./Houston/Miami/etc.?
The music is part of the city and the city is part of the music -
MEK
"Mark S. Krüx"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Cyborg K"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, "313" <313@hyperreal.org>, "Carissa
Tintinalli" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
01/27/03 08:14 PM cc:
Subject: Re: (313) more demf
stuff...
Hmmmm I may've been off base on this trademark thing. I've done a little
poking around on the net and while it seems that Derrick has
http://www.demf.com locked down, I can't find any reference to him owning
the trademark.
I did find this article, but it reads like a whole lotta PR spin to me:
http://www.combattkd.com/news42.htm
DEMF Founder Carol Marvin and World Boxing Legend Thomas 'The Hitman'
Hearns
Form DEMF Inc.
I have a feeling this is going to be settled in court.
*sigh*
m*
----- Original Message -----
From: "Cyborg K" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: "313" <313@hyperreal.org>; "Carissa Tintinalli"
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 8:23 PM
Subject: RE: (313) more demf stuff...
> Well, from what I know, incorporating DEMF would simply mean that a
business
> named "DEMF, Inc." exists. A trademark, on the other hand, gives you
the
> right to market a product or services under a given name, like a brand
name,
> regardless of the name of the company that is selling the product. So ,
> given the information you just gave, I'd guess that Marvin's "DEMF Inc."
> would not have any right to market an event called "DEMF" or a product
that
> says "DEMF (tm)" on it, only May or his company would have that right.
> Possibly Marvin could be sued for infringing on the trademark if that
> happened. I'm no lawyer but this is my understanding of it. This is
only
> true if May really owns the DEMF trademark, of course.
>
> /Dave
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Carissa Tintinalli [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 7:48 PM
> To: 313@hyperreal.org
> Subject: Re: (313) more demf stuff...
>
>
> My understanding is that Derrick May has 'DEMF' trademarked, while Carol
> Marvin has 'DEMF' incorporated.
>
> I know nothing about copyright law, so I'm not sure if one of these
cancels
> out the other or if they both have equal right to the name.
>
> >From: Mark S. Krüx <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Didn't I read somewhere that May had trademarked 'DEMF' awhile back, >
or
> >something like that??
> >
> >This all sounds a quite strange to me...
> >
> >m*
>
>
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