The EU Court of Justice is now considering a lawsuit between SAS and World Programming Ltd. over the extent of copyright protection in software. We wrote about this last year, when a UK court ruled against SAS, but now it’s been kicked up to the EU Co… Continue reading →

There’s an idea that’s been popular for a while that the internet somehow does away with “middlemen.” A perfect example of this is NY Times’ Damon Darlin acting surprised at a new middleman business delivering food to various companies from various fo… Continue reading →

While we’ve noted that Lady Gaga seems to be really on top of things when it comes to copyright issues on her music, in other areas of her operations, she’s pretty aggressive in pushing intellectual property claims. We’ve noted, for example, her attem… Continue reading →

We just had a post about how a video of police showed that they lied in arresting a guy. Josef Anvil points us to a similar, but slightly different, story that took place in Chicago. In this case, Debra Green was in a car in a funeral procession, yel… Continue reading →

Another day, another Righthaven disaster. We’ve been waiting for a while for Judge John Kane in Colorado to rule on Righthaven’s cases there. As you may recall, he’d put them all on hold back in May to determine if Righthaven had standing. He put th… Continue reading →

The excellent new Patent Examiner blog has a post up about a company called SmartMetric, which claims to be in the business of making biometric technologies, but admits it hasn’t actually made any money doing that. Instead, it seems to be in the busin… Continue reading →

We’ve had plenty of stories about music collections agencies shaking down various businesses for playing music — and over in the UK a fight is apparently brewing over whether or not music retailers should have to pay such fees. As you might imagine,… Continue reading →

With all the talk of the EU’s decision to retroactively extend copyright from 50 to 70 years, despite no evidence that this is needed or useful, very little attention was paid to the massive harm this causes. Multiple studies showed that such an exten… Continue reading →

We’re always interested in hearing about new conferences that take on really important subjects, so we’re pleased to announce that we’re acting as a media sponsor of the fantastic looking Silicon Valley Human Rights Conference, taking place on October … Continue reading →