Monday, May 19, 2008

Moog for the Camera

Besides all the the nifty techno geeky things listed, Robert Moog's bio points to the interesting and vexing problem of an inventor/creator losing rights to use his name on products.  This problem gets solved, in some senses, because Moog goes to work for Big Briar and they, after a legal battle, acquire the rights to the name Moog Music.  It is not an uncommon problem for inventors to get locked out of using their names (both their given name and names they've given an idea).  

The moogerfooger where interesting to explore, initially because of the name.  The fabulous thing about digital is that while moogerfoogers are analog effects pedals, plugins were developed that simulated the effect of the pedals.

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