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14 Jan 2009, 1:33 am
" At issue here is not YouTube - they are just following the DMCA notice-and-takedown system - but rather the DMCA system itself, which regularly demonstrates the chilling effect of taking down content without any analysis of whether there is actually an infringement.Update: Coverage of this story from TechDirt and Ars Technica. [read post]
13 Jan 2009, 12:15 pm
Group Wants A National Ban On Yakking While Driving | Techdirt. [read post]
13 Jan 2009, 12:15 pm
Group Wants A National Ban On Yakking While Driving | Techdirt. [read post]
11 Jan 2009, 1:48 am
Erik Heels, an internet-savvy lawyer (and regular Techdirt reader) has gone through Twitter and discovered that of the top 100 global brands, only 7 have their main brand registered as a Twitter ID. [read post]
9 Jan 2009, 7:00 am
(IP Think Tank) World Customs Organisation to replace controversial IP standards body; doubts remain (Intellectual Property Watch) Rebalance your IP portfolio for 2009 (IP Spotlight) IAM blog’s IP personalities of 2008 (IAM) Key themes for 2009 – from green patents to the IP marketplace (IAM) Experts examine strategies for IP and sustainable development (Intellectual Property Watch) The paradox of accounting innovation (IP Frontline) Saving your IP (Patent Baristas) … [read post]
9 Jan 2009, 3:00 am
: CoStar v Dumann (Techdirt) Gatehouse Media - Gatehouse Media sues New York Times over republication of news headlines (Out-Law) (IP Watchdog) MPAA - MPAA also likes idea of ISP enforcers for file sharing (Techdirt) Nine Inch Nails - CC-licensed NIN album Amazon’s best-selling MP3 album for 2008 (Creative Commons) (Lessig) (Techdirt) (ReadWriteWeb) (Michael Geist) Nine Inch Nails - Reznor releases footage of Nine Inch Nails’ current tour on BitTorrent… [read post]
9 Jan 2009, 2:53 am
Techdirt has a good post on how Hasbro and Mattel killed online Scrabble:We've been chronicling just how badly both Hasbro and Mattel screwed up in responding to the massive success of Scrabulous on Facebook. [read post]
6 Jan 2009, 8:48 am
This item, from Techdirt, should give some pause to lawyers who represent copyright holders: the top selling MP3 download on Amazon last year was Nine Inch Nails’ Ghosts I-IV album. [read post]
5 Jan 2009, 5:00 am
(EFF) (Creative Commons) (Lessig) (Michael Geist) (IPKat) (TorrentFreak) (Techdirt) (Creative Commons) (ReadWriteWeb) African National Congress loses Cope name challenge The ANC sought to stop the emerging political party, Cope, from using the name Congress of the People arguing that no person or party should be allowed to appropriate the name of the 1955 Congress of the People, in which the Freedom Charter was adopted. [read post]
2 Jan 2009, 9:14 am
Techdirt observes that it "be quite interesting to see what happens next, as it will be something of a preview of the eventual Mickey Mouse fight that will be coming":Disney was able to continually extend copyright to keep Mickey Mouse out of the public domain for years -- in part because copyright wasn't an issue that the general public cared about or that really impacted them in a noticeable way. [read post]
24 Dec 2008, 4:00 pm
You can separately subscribe to the IP Think Tank Global Week in Review at the Subscribe page: [duncanbucknell.com] Highlights this week included: Wall Street Journal reports RIAA to ‘abandon’ mass litigation, RIAA signs voluntary ‘graduated response’ agreements with major ISPs (Excess Copyright) (Michael Geist) (Internet Cases) (Ars Technica) (ContentAgenda) (ContentAgenda) (ContentAgenda) (EFF) (TorrentFreak) (Techdirt) (Public Knowledge)… [read post]
24 Dec 2008, 2:00 pm
(Techdirt) Assigning a mark without the business: a question of deception? [read post]
20 Dec 2008, 11:01 am
The People , P2PNET.net and Techdirt. [read post]
20 Dec 2008, 3:00 am
(Spicy IP) L’Oreal files suit against MyDollarStore alleging infringement of IP rights and illegal importation of goods (Spicy IP) Taj Mahal copyright – a non-issue: life size copy of Taj Mahal to be built in Bangladesh (Spicy IP) (Techdirt) Q Corner: Minimum period for patent grant (Patent Circle) Iran Iranian artists call for tougher copyright protection (The IP Factor) Israel New Israel trade mark portal to be launched on 29 December 2008 (The IP… [read post]
20 Dec 2008, 2:00 am
You can separately subscribe to the IP Think Tank Global Week in Review at the Subscribe page: [duncanbucknell.com] Highlights this week included: Wall Street Journal reports Obama, Lessig and Google have shifted their positions on net neutrality; Google, Lessig slam WSJ report (Lessig) (IPTAblog) (Lessig) (Techdirt) (Excess Copyright) (Ars Technica) (Public Knowledge) (ContentAgenda) (ContentAgenda) (ContentAgenda) Free Software Foundation files copyright lawsuit against Cisco… [read post]
20 Dec 2008, 1:16 am
Techdirt wonders whether you can guilt someone into not pirating software:A bunch of folks have been submitting this story about USB Overdrive X's response to anyone who uses a pirated key to use their software. [read post]
19 Dec 2008, 5:23 pm
Techdirt asks did Burger King really just issue a C&D through Twitter? [read post]
18 Dec 2008, 9:33 am
***In passing, note also the various responses of IPBiz to "Masnick-isms"-->http://ipbiz.blogspot.com/2008/12/techdirt-on-patent-reform-on-dec-15.html [Mike, at TechDirt, made comments below, but provided no citations to back up his statements.(...)]http://ipbiz.blogspot.com/2008/04/patent-reform-2008-as-house-of-mirrors.html [It's self-evident that Mike confused what Jon Dudas said [more bad applications lately but, don't worry, we are rejecting them]… [read post]
17 Dec 2008, 12:33 pm
Subsidized Laptops With Locked In Wireless Broadband Contracts | Techdirt. [read post]
15 Dec 2008, 6:46 am
Judge the IT folks by what they do, not by what they say.In that post by Mike at TechDirt, there was a comment by one "mr. vilms" about university efforts, to which Mike at TechDirt made no response:Universities, independent research laboratories, start-up companies, and venture capital companies make up the innovation industry. [read post]
