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by bdowling 5y ago
You’re right, I misremembered the ruling. As with most cases you read in law school, the issues are more important than the outcome.
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by bdowling 5y ago
This and the "Carbolic Smoke Ball" case. (An advertisement purporting to offer £100 to anyone who catches influenza after using their product does not create a unilateral offer that can be accepted by catching influenza).
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by bdowling 5y ago
It's not. It's a Unicode 'RIGHT SINGLE QUOTATION MARK' (U+2019), which in UTF-8 is encoded as 0xe2 0x80 0x99. 0xe2 is â in iso8859-1. 0x80 is not in iso8859-1, but is € in windows-1252. 0x99 is not in iso8859-1, but is ™
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by bdowling 5y ago
> arguing that it would have been "better" for them to lose their houses too is beyond parody. Homelessness was not the only outcome. Many of those unable to pay rent would have been able to borrow money, sell off assets, recei
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by bdowling 5y ago
The documentary Command and Control [0] included a small part about the recovery and transport of a warhead after an accident in which they missile it was mounted on exploded. [0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Command
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by bdowling 5y ago
Youtube only plays an ad if (1) Youtube decides to offer an ad slot and (2) a buyer buys the ad slot. This happens in a fraction of a second based on what the ad buyers have programmed that they want to buy. Ad buyers usually want ads targe
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by bdowling 5y ago
> I knew the patent wouldn't hold up in court, but I wouldn't have the money to fight it. You're not really going to be sued unless you have money to pay a judgment or settlement. If you have money, then you can pay to fig
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by bdowling 5y ago
> Why don't book publishers use a license that forbids fair use? They couldn't do it with a license, which only imposes conditions for the license to be valid. Fair use applies even if the copier has no license at all. Potentia
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by bdowling 5y ago
> ... giving revenue to the copyright holders. That's a reference to factor four of the fair use test, "the effect of the use upon the potential market for or value of the copyrighted work." (17 USC 107). None of the facto
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by bdowling 5y ago
> ...the non-obvious thing for many developers is that fair use is an exception to copyright itself. More precisely, fair use is an affirmative defense to an claim of copyright infringement. A fair use defense basically says, "Yes,
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by bdowling 5y ago
> as a student in boston where brokers take 1 month rent for doing exactly nothing At least in California, the broker’s fee is an expense of the landlord that is not directly passed on to the tenant moving in. If the cost is passed on,
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by bdowling 5y ago
Code elements like conditionals, loops, arithmetic or Boolean expressions, assignment statements, etc. are not copyrightable, but not because they’re insignificant (like individual words in a novel), but because they’re useful articles. Cop
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by bdowling 5y ago
Individual notes, like individual words, are not copyrightable. Longer sequences, however, can be if they are original.
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by bdowling 5y ago
> Look - here’s a helpful lawyer’s template for including for-loops as a claim in your own patents: A claim on a combination of elements in which one element is an iterative component is not the same as claim on all iterative components
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by bdowling 5y ago
> Unless you are Github, in which case having your AI copy code vertabim is ok? You have to filter out any non-copyrightable elements before you do the substantial similarity analysis. For code, that means removing non-expressive element
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by bdowling 5y ago
> and it would output music that I could control to be very much or even exactly like the original recordings, or I could accidentally do it, that it wouldn’t really be a way to launder the original licenses/copyright into the publi
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by bdowling 5y ago
> Why is this ADHD and not just being human? Because most people can work effectively on a project that they don't want to do by, for example, focusing on the positive benefits of doing the project or the negative consequences of no
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by bdowling 5y ago
> But the whole concept of dissent at this level, makes for less respect for the law. Sometimes the majority is wrong. Two important examples are Dred Scott v. Sandford (1857), in which the court held that black Americans could not be
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by bdowling 5y ago
Right? The AIA made it easier and cheaper (*) for big companies to invalidate the patents of small inventors who try to assert their patents against them. It reduced the amount of money that big companies will pay to license a patent becaus
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by bdowling 5y ago
It's more than that. The fee to request the IPR is $19,000, plus $375 for each claim in excess of 20. If the USPTO decides to institute the IPR, the post-institution fee is $22,500, plus $750 for each claim in excess of 20. [0] Attorne
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by bdowling 5y ago
Asking for something in return can be inferred by behavior.
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by bdowling 5y ago
I was confused when I read this because reader mode on Safari converted the umlauts and acutes into quotation marks and apostrophes.
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by bdowling 5y ago
> Yet another reason to reign in the freedom of platforms Forcing platforms to host material that may, arguably infringe copyrights or trademarks isn’t a solution. What’s needed are bright-line rules for determining fair use. Bright-line
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by bdowling 5y ago
Trademarks function as source identifiers for particular goods or services, and don't preclude other non-confusing uses of marks. So, Apple Computer Inc. can protect the mark APPLE for computers and I can still sell my Fuji or Red Deli
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by bdowling 5y ago
> platform owners are too scared to get within half a mile of where the actual line is drawn. This. Then the tech news and commentators on HN, etc., get agitated and complain about IP rights as if the actual lines are drawn where the sca
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by bdowling 5y ago
> It's illegal for us non-corporate types to bribe cops. It's not a bribe if you don't ask for anything in return.
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by bdowling 5y ago
That is not a good analogy because most people's employment is "at will", meaning that they can be fired at any time for any reason other than discrimination against a protected class or retaliation for some protected activit
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by bdowling 5y ago
The company here can decide for itself whether it is in its best interest to allow an unlicensed fan translation of one of its programs. If it is, then the company does nothing. If not, then the company will tell them to stop what they&#x27
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by bdowling 5y ago
> And if doing things without an author's permission upsets you don't ever take a look at fanfiction.net. It doesn't upset me. It's just that no one making fan fictions or fan translations should be surprised when the
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by bdowling 5y ago
Kairosoft is a company of about 20 people with capitalization of 100 million yen (not sure what that means exactly). [0]. They make games for current game consoles including Nintendo Switch and Sony Playstation 4, and games for iOS and Andr

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