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Old 07-12-2014, 11:57 PM
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HMV and Little Nipper

The RCA "Nipper" and His Master's Voice goes back a very very long way to the Victor Talking Machine Co. (USA) and The Gramophone Co. (UK) at the turn of the 20th century and exchange of copyrights etc.

Nipper was in fact a real dog. (1884-1895) Painted listening to a cylinder record ... repainted with a gramophone the painting became the trademark for Victor and HMV (UK).

So RCA (which bought Victor in the 1920s) owns the trademark for the US and HMV (UK) for outside the US.

HMV/EMI was part of the consortium that developed 405 line tv in the 1930s.

Like RCA ... now just brand name for Warner or Universal or Sony.
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