[78-L] trade-marks

[Michael Biel]

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Subject: [78-L] trade-marks
From: DAVID BURNHAM <burnhamd at rogers.com>
Date: Thu, June 03, 2010 9:45 pm
To: 78-L at 78online.com

Mike Biel wrote:

Not any more. The Gramophone Company changed their main label name to
His Master's Voice, and the company name to EMI, in 1930 or 31. 

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I just checked my HMV issue of Toscanini's "Eroica" and at the bottom of
the label it says, "The Gramophone Co."; this is obviously long after
1931

db

Actually this is true, I don't think they started using EMI on the
labels until much later, retaining the Gramophone Co on HMV labels and
Columbia Phonograph Co on Columbia labels.  These would be better
described as divisions of EMI, just like RCA Manufacturing Co. and then
RCA Victor was a division of Radio Corporation of America.  RCA later
had a long list of names it claimed trademark to and listed them on the
bottom of labels in the early 50s.  

Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com