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by bdowling 4y ago
Those aren’t books, they’re props that signal to others that you’re the kind of person who values the works of Shakespeare enough to buy a handsomely-bound edition that you probably haven’t read. They could contain gibberish and they would
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by bdowling 4y ago
> There are many ways to earn money from films, music, art, books, etc., without needing copyright. For any of those ways, it will always be cheaper to copy someone else's films, music, art, books, etc. rather than spend time and ef
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> This seems to be an appellate decision from Aug: ... That's the decision in the case where Thaler sued the patent office (USPTO) because it refused to issue a patent where the AI was named as the inventor. If I recall, the patent
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There are very few places in law where you can legally stake a claim within someone else's territory and exploit it for profit. Our patent system is one of them because it allows one inventor to patent an improvement to another invento
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According to a subsequent suit filed by the patentee's attorney, the patentee voluntarily withdrew the suit in the Eastern District of Texas after its lawyer and the lawyer's family were subjected to a targeted campaign of harassm
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> But what truly killed the company and product, he claimed, were expenses related to ongoing litigation. Some of this cost includes defending against the lawsuit alleging that Mycroft and its principals initiated or called for a campaig
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> the amount of ads I get encouraging people to become a Amazon drop-shipper... In other words, it's more profitable teaching people to become Amazon drop-shippers than it is to be one.
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A small company (e.g., a startup) will never sue to enforce its patents because suing is too expensive. Because they won’t sue, they won’t be able to license the patents to anyone. For a startup, however, patents can still have value in at
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by bdowling 4y ago
In case it isn’t obvious, the lesson here is that passive voice can be used to place the important thing first in a sentence.
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That could be it. The ideas were in the hands of many. When does one flawed implementation of an idea count as a "first" while another doesn't?
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Why wouldn't Elite (1984) count as the first open-world 3D game. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elite_(video_game)
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I guess I should have given a warning.
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Decent YouTube video on the wasps that pollinate the figs: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRBiY65N2gk
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GitHub probably does this to protect itself from potential copyright claims by the copyright owner. In most cases, copyright owners will want Github to stop distributing copies of their code to people whose access they revoked. They won&#x2
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> Very curious, since there were commercialized versions reported back in 2019. (1) Their patent application was filed on 11/6/2017. https://patents.google.com/patent/US10836466B2 (2) This propeller is di
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For those who don't know (I didn't), D. B. Cooper is a 1971 hijacker who skydived out the back of a 727 with a $200,000 ransom and was never found. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/D._B._Cooper
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Today I learned that painted manhole covers with cool, unique graphic designs for each city/customer are a thing in Japan. https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/japanese-manhole-cover...
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Liable for what, exactly? Generally, if there is no harm, then there is no liability. In this case, there may be a case for defamation, but if the company only reported that the police were looking for a particular suspect, which was true,
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But did it make a ton of money for him ? The music industry isn't exactly known for putting artists first (i.e., musicians often don't make anything until all the expenses, advertising, promotion, payola, etc. are paid).
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The "American Rule" also leads to many lawsuits of questionable merit being brought against corporations (and wealthy individuals). Attorneys take these cases on contingency, knowing that the defendant will likely just settle rath
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In the American legal system, each party pays its own legal fees unless there is (1) a statute that specifies fee-shifting or (2) a contract between the parties that specifies fee-shifting. The reasoning behind this is that to require the l
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> Nowadays, legal adoption of this kind is paired up with an arranged marriage — known as "omiai" — of a daughter, meaning the adopted son becomes son and son-in-law at the same time because he changes his name to the wife&#x27
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You can also use the builtin command `let`: let count=0 until "$@"; do let wait=2**count sleep $wait let count=count+1 done
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The standard for infringement in trademark law is “likelihood of confusion”. Specifically, the question of infringement is whether a junior user’s use of the mark is likely to confuse a member of the public as to the origin of the goods or
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If you dehumanize an enemy, you can do anything to them without any moral consequences. Even genocide may be permissible if the enemy isn't human. It could even be virtuous.
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Many people get very upset and spend a lot of time complaining about the egregious laws that they have read about, without spending any time to actually read and understand the law in question. These are often the same people who will rail
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Captions like “[ upbeat music ]” or “[ computer beeps ]” signal to deaf listeners information about the program that they cannot sense. There is no need for those when adding subtitles to a foreign-language program made for a hearing au
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Foreign language subtitling and captioning for the deaf are different because their audiences have different needs.
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The definitions section is important. "Biometric identifiers do not include ... photographs ." (740 ILCS 14/10). Regarding commercial use of photos taken of people in public, the law varies by state. Some states have stronge
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> without infinite cells? To consider any system Turing complete you have to extend it to having infinite memory. This is why all actual, non-theoretical computers are equivalent to finite state machines (or linear bounded automata [0]).

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