Media Web Site Reverts Back to Old Name

06:04 PM EST November 22, 2005
Associated Press

NEW YORK
Less than a week after launching, a media Web site that combines new
and traditional journalism is changing its name to avoid a trademark
battle with an existing public radio show.

Open Source Media, until last week known as Pajamas Media, will now be
called ... Pajamas Media.

OSM Media LLC returned to its old name after discovering that Public
Radio International already distributes an hour-long radio show called
Open Source, from a production company that goes by Open Source Media
Inc.

The show's producers said they consulted lawyers and asked the new
venture to stop using the name. Pajamas' founders agreed to the
request and suggested in an online posting that they were never fully
comfortable with Open Source Media to begin with.

Some 70 Web journalists, including Instapundit's Glenn Reynolds, are
participating in the new site, which blends news feeds from
traditional media organizations with Web journal, or blog, postings.