John R. MacArthur is publisher of Harper’s Magazine and writer in the e-book You Cannot Be President: The Outrageous Barriers to Democracy in The united states. This column originally appeared from the July 13, 2011 Providence Journal.
Rupert Murdoch’s legal,
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As it transpires, the Australian-born press baron owns the Harper’s trademark simply because he owns HarperCollins publishers. So,
Pandora Ringe, for 24 a long time, I’ve been putting out a highbrow monthly dedicated to critical literature and top quality journalism together with the revocable permission of your guy finest acknowledged for negative flavor and low ethics in nearly everything he does.
The 1980 revenue contract with all the Minneapolis Star and Tribune Business,
Pandora Jewellery Nz, which previously owned Harper’s Journal as well as a proportion of Harper & Row Publishers,
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Tiffany.com, it inherited this agreement and thus could haul me into court if its chairman thought that Harper’s Magazine was damaging his e book company’s trademark by scurrilous behavior.