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Microsoft-Samsung Licensing Deal Tells Us Nothing About The Facts, Just About The FUD
As Bessen and Meurer’s book “Patent Failure” points out, one of the biggest problems with software patents is their lack of well-defined boundaries. This makes it very hard to tell whether newly-written code is infringing on existing patents or not. Th… Continue reading
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Usenet Provider Ordered To Wave Magic Wand And Make Infringing Content Disappear
We’ve seen a few other cases like this and never can understand how a court thinks it’s reasonable for a third party service provider to know how to block its system from being used for infringement, but that’s exactly what’s happened in the Court of A… Continue reading
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Psystar Loses Again: Appeals Court Says It Can’t Install Legally Purchased OSX On Other Hardware
As you may recall, Psystar was a company that tried to make Apple Mac clones by legally purchasing Apple operating systems, and figuring out how to install them on other hardware. Apple sued the company in 2008 for violating its license. Psystar went… Continue reading
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DailyDirt: Nicer Packaging For The Stuff We Eat
Food packaging technology has come a long way from tin cans and glass containers. Packaging material is thinner and lighter and keeps food fresher for longer. And now that some plastics can be more easily recycled or composted, there are nifty new cont… Continue reading
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Court Gives Righthaven A Little More Time To Pay Attorneys Fees
As Righthaven is desperately trying to avoid paying legal fees to Marc Randazza in the Hoehn case, it appears that the company has caught a very slight and brief reprieve. Judge Philip Pro has given the company a little bit more time, saying that Righ… Continue reading
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Amazon’s Silk Browser To Be A Data Mining Jackpot
We’ve already discussed whether Amazon’s Kindle Fire ‘Silk’ browser is a copyright lawsuit waiting to happen, for the way it apparently is going to cache and modify content from its own AWS servers. It seems that people are realizing some other potent… Continue reading
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Obama Administration To Use ACTA Signing Statement To Defend Why It Can Ignore The Constitution In Signing ACTA
While the EU, Mexico and Switzerland are apparently not yet ready to sign ACTA, a lot of others are apparently planning to sign the document this weekend, despite questions about its legality. Because of that Sean Flynn has written up an analysis sugg… Continue reading
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Is Facebook Violating The Law Just By Encouraging You To Share?
While we know that Facebook collects a ton of data on people, and we absolutely agree that the way it implemented some of its frictionless sharing is ridiculously unclear, does that mean it should be illegal? The privacy group EPIC, who has such a low… Continue reading
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State Department Vindictiveness: Using Single Blog Link To Wikileaks To Investigate Employee Who Published Critical Book
We’ve discussed a few times just how ridiculous it is that the US government still pretends that the State Department cables available via Wikileaks are somehow classified and secret. It’s a head-in-sand approach, in which government employees have to… Continue reading
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Lawyer For Accused: DDoS Is A Legal Form Of Protest
Last year, we discussed whether or not things like Operation Payback by Anonymous (DDoSing sites of organizations they didn’t like) was really the equivalent of a modern-day sit-in protest, rather than a criminal hacking, as law enforcement (and victim… Continue reading
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