Authored by: JamesK on Monday, June 03 2013 @ 12:03 PM EDT |
Perhaps their name should be "Intellectual Vultures".
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 03 2013 @ 12:40 PM EDT |
CNet Link
SACEM, a French society
that controls royalties paid to authors, composers, and publishers, said on
Friday that Apple owes 5 million euros ($6.5 million) in royalty taxes from
iPads sold in France in 2011. The tax, known in France as a copie privee, is
levied against all vendors of digital devices that use copyrighted content,
according to French blog site The Rude Baguette.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 03 2013 @ 01:25 PM EDT |
This just in. SCOTUS says police can take
DNA samples
when they book people.
Suprisingly Breyer voted they can and Scalia voted they
can't.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 03 2013 @ 02:06 PM EDT |
From PJ's comments:
"Doesn't Microsoft know how to compete without antitrust issues coming to
stage front, center?"
No.
"They should put some of this wonderful energy into making better phones
and tablets, methinks, instead."
Even if they did that, their reputation is so bad that the new products wouldn't
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 03 2013 @ 04:25 PM EDT |
I couldn't listen to the piece for an hour last night -- fell asleep.
Is there any smoking gun showing that Microsoft, Balmer, or Gates (or Buffet)
funded Intellectual Ventures.
I suspect that Intellectual Ventures is yet another way to attack FOSS by using
a beard. I.e. it would be too easy for Nathan Myrvold to strike a deal with his
former employer to fund his patent trolling venture, as long as some of the
patent trolling was assured to strike Microsoft's competitors.
I ask, has Intellectual Ventures ever sued or settled with Microsoft, or is
there
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 03 2013 @ 04:36 PM EDT |
Link
Then, last month,
came the letter from agents for the state’s Department of Economic
Development.
It said, “Everyman Espresso’s unauthorized and confusingly similar
use of the I ♥ NY® logo” violated federal trademark law and implied “a
misleading designation of source, origin, endorsement, sponsorship or approval
by the New York State Department of Economic Development of your merchandise.”
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, June 03 2013 @ 04:56 PM EDT |
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The work builds on some earlier
research that Syfert has put out exploring how many of the Prenda-related films
seemed to have been initially offered on The Pirate Bay via the same user:
sharkmp4. For all the mocking that people have made concerning Prenda's
"forensic" investigations into those they accuse of infringement (i.e., finding
an IP address and not much else), Neville shows you how an actual investigation
is done. You should read the whole thing for the layers upon layers of evidence
that all seem to point the finger at John Steele.
The wheel
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