NEWS: Burning Man Up in Smoke?

CULTURE: Burning Man Up in Smoke?

John Law, one of the three original founders of Burning Man, is suing ex-partners Larry Harvey and Michael Mikel to strip them of ownership of the event's name and logo. Law claims that he wants to place the rights to their trademarks in the public domain.



Brian Doherty, a senior editor of the libertarian magazine Reason, author of This is Burning Man, and longtime burner was recently interviewed by Newsweek about the controversy. If Law's suit is successful, outside entities will gain access to the Burning Man name. Even so, Doherty believes Burning Man will live on.

Laughing Squid has a thorough set of links to relevant legal documents.

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I'd much rather prefer all things to do with Burning Man to stay in the private ownership hands of its creators. Its already bordering on sold out, I know a lot of people who don't go anymore cause its so different from the earlier years.

+1

OMGZ BURNING SHIP!

go jostens

in related news....

Tickets at the $195 level are now sold out.

SINKING BURNING SHIP!!!

Ah, thanks, for that, there. That was, ah, the joke.

Yeah.

I am all the day with my belabouring the obvious up.

Great! This year will be m first year and I would hate to experience the first year of the end

All extraordinarily trendy things must....


Wait, how did that go?

Shouldn't Ray Bradbury's ghost own the name, since he wrote the story of that name long before the festival started?

What's an "original founder"?

Sorry, I got nothin'. Er, damn hippies!

Damn straight. He is old, though.

Oops. My bad. Don't know why I thought he had died. That's good to hear. Only, I'm kind of starting to regret burying him.

Isn't there something you could do?

I'm not sure if anyone else has perused this site.

It brings some interesting points forward, in addition to this lawsuit.

Or hey heres an idea SG presents the burning man

John Law is a good guy and IMHO Burning Man LLC has turned into a money hungry beast convoluting the point of why Burning Man got going in the first place at Baker Beach.

I've considered going to this more than once; it always sounded interesting but, truth be told, the idea of being in a desert during the hottest time of the summer doesn't appeal to me much...I've a cold weather, forest type of guy

He has a lovely wife.

I'm really glad this lawsuit has given the media a chance to dust off their "Burning Man is so over" stories. I hadn't read any in a year or two.

I'm not saying this is one, although that is what i was expecting after seeing the title and having read about five of those in the past week.