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October 18, 2012
Megaupload’s New Plan: Will It Fly, Legally?
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In an article on Wired.com today, Kim Dotcom and Mathias Ortmann outlined their vision for a new service, called simply "Mega," including an approach to file-hosting that the pair believes will render their service
October 15, 2012
A Copyright Case That’s Hard to ‘Imagine’
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Every once in a while, along comes a bit of Nike Air VaporMax pas cher intellectual property litigation so absurd, so obviously bereft of merit, that it's hard to even comment on it. Unless there is whole lot mo
October 8, 2012
Copyright + Resale + Intangible Goods = Tricky Legal Questions
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Judge Richard Sullivan of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York has a legal humdinger on his hands in the form of EMI Music's lawsuit against ReDigi, the service that allows its users to stor
October 1, 2012
Fighting Piracy on its Own “Terms”
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Sun Tzu once wrote something to the effect that "if you know your enemies and know yourself, you can win a hundred battles without a single loss; if you only know yourself, but not your opponent, you may win or lose
September 28, 2012
Protecting Your Copyrights: Don’t Forget to Register!
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Stories like this one always make me cringe and shake my head, just a bit. To briefly summarize what you will read about in the article linked to above, an artist came to find that a retailer was selling prints o
September 24, 2012
The Romney Campaign Learns A Lesson In Fonts and Copyright
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It sounds like the air max 95 femme Mitt Romney campaign is in the process of learning a lesson that many web designers have been confronted with over the years: When it comes to fonts, it's important to watch your
September 21, 2012
Congressional Anti-Piracy Caucus Issues New Watch List
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In its latest "Country Watch List," the Congressional International Anti-Piracy Caucus identifies a handful of countries wherein a "lack of enforcement of intellectual property rights... causes grave harm to America
September 18, 2012
Meet Me at the Corner of Piracy and Irony
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German Pirate Party executive committee member Julia Schramm must be experiencing some severe discomfort right about now. The outspoken advocate of information freedom (read: "piracy"), who apparently once referred
September 14, 2012
Six Strikes, But How Many Teeth?
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Reading over Ars Technica's coverage of its interview with Center for Copyright Information Executive Director Jill Lesser, it's hard to say how exactly the Copyright Alert System, AKA "six strikes" is going to work
September 12, 2012
Copyright and Innovation
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Rutgers University law professor Michael A. Carrier has published a very interesting paper called "Copyright and Innovation: The Untold Story" that is very much worth reading, regardless of whether you agree with it
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