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Apple launching sidelong attacks against Google with new lawsuits in U.S.(arstechnica.com)
1 points by grellas 15y ago|0 comments
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Google has intriguing plans at the Googleplex(mercurynews.com)
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by grellas 15y ago
VEVO Execs Must Face Criminal Charges For Copyright Infringement Criminal charges are a serious business and I don't think it promotes healthy debate to sling around loose statements suggesting that they be pursued recklessly by the autho
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The legal talent behind Facebook's IPO(amlawdaily.typepad.com)
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Supreme Court Gets It Wrong in Golan v. Holder, Public Domain Mourns(eff.org)
2 points by grellas 15y ago|0 comments
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by grellas 15y ago
Jerf is correct in this. Public domain materials remain so except as modified or improved by the creative work of others and, in that case, only the creative improvements fall under copyright, not the original materials. The recent case of
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by grellas 15y ago
A few thoughts: 1. Oracle has stepped into a bear-trap in this case and is trying to extricate itself. This does not mean that it has a losing case on the merits. That is a matter yet to be decided and it will get as fair a trial in this co
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Oracle v. Google: Judge leaves Oracle reeling on viability of its damages claims(groklaw.net)
109 points by grellas 15y ago|21 comments
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How Google Destroyed American Democracy(cato-at-liberty.org)
5 points by grellas 15y ago|3 comments
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Strongly pro-IP attorney blasts Supreme Court for re-copyright ruling(ipwatchdog.com)
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by grellas 15y ago
The Internet has made copyright law outdated. Social norms are in the process of adjusting to the new situation. Well, the Internet certainly has led to a generation of young people who are accustomed to downloading freely from various so
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by grellas 15y ago
Creative effort - or at at least any that is truly worthy of the name - takes tears, and sweat, and blood. We can marvel at the output of an artist, or a writer, or a composer, or a film maker and yet fail to focus on the years of toil that
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by grellas 15y ago
In the modern world, "property" may be tangible or intangible, as the law may recognize it. Law may take all sorts of forms. In the U.S., it may take the form of a federal constitution or a state constitution, or of a federal statute or a s
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by grellas 15y ago
A few thoughts: 1. I am against SOPA-style enforcement schemes as much as is anyone here at HN - laws that impose potentially ruinous penalties based on vague standards lacking all due process protections are laws that stink, however assess
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Why the Movie Industry Can't Innovate and the Result is SOPA(steveblank.com)
236 points by grellas 15y ago|40 comments
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Veoh wins the battle but loses the war - a key legal ruling nonetheless(blog.ericgoldman.org)
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by grellas 15y ago
In California, if a defendant loses in small claims court, there is an automatic appeal right to have the case heard de novo by a judge of the Superior Court. "De novo" means the case is heard fresh and the small claims proceeding has no
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Are Happy Times Here Again for IPOs?(amlawdaily.typepad.com)
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Medical Justice Capitulates by "Retiring" Its Anti-Patient Review Contracts(blog.ericgoldman.org)
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Lawyer survey details economics of patent litigation(law.com)
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by grellas 15y ago
"Those who work hard make good" is a profoundly American theme that dates back to Horatio Alger and before - it can hardly be said to originate from a cabal of VCs trying to "put one over" on hapless founders and startup employees in Silico
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Novell v. Microsoft heats up as Bill Gates testifies(groklaw.net)
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by grellas 15y ago
While the article makes good points, I disagree with its fundamental premise that the case system is a bad way to prepare students for the practice of law. The article offers what is really an academic critique of law school education. In e
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Lenseless glasses all the rage in Hong Kong where many are myopic(online.wsj.com)
4 points by grellas 15y ago|2 comments
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B&N before the ITC as it pushes patent misuse claims against Microsoft(groklaw.net)
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Law prof on problems with SOPA/E-Parasite bills(blog.ericgoldman.org)
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by grellas 15y ago
Excellent comment. Any appeal to Congress that disrespects the value of copyright will not fly because, as the general public sees it, it is a serious problem when people have the value of their creative efforts diminished as they are sprea
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SEC's proposed "bad actor" rules will complicate funding for startups(startuplawblog.com)
2 points by grellas 15y ago|0 comments
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B&N details Microsoft's "anticompetitive behavior in the mobile OS market"(groklaw.net)
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by grellas 15y ago
It is very hard for a company to prove willful failure to perform duties when an engineer is actually executing on assigned projects, or at least attempting in good faith to execute. Engineers who have contractual protection against termina

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