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  1. Dan Ravicher is named lawyer of the week. You can read an expanded version of that phrase if you pay a whole bunch of money to some law journal. I didn't. Congrats Dan!
  2. "We should legislate that developing, distributing, or running a program on generally used computing hardware does not constitute patent infringement."
  3. Very cool oped by Posner on the state of the patent system. He thinks its totally broken but, because he's Richard Posner, he has some ideas of what to do about it.
  4. Amazing antifeatures story.
  5. Interesting. But does it really matter?
  6. "In his remarkable ruling, U.S. Circuit Judge Richard Posner stated that there was no point in holding a trial because it was apparent that neither side could show they had been harmed by the other’s patent infringement. He said he was inclined to dismiss the case with prejudice — meaning the parties can’t come back to fight over the same patents — and that he would enter a more formal opinion confirming this next week."
  7. A pretty good write-up of why folks should wait at red lights.
  8. "For several years Georgia State was involved in litigation over the fair use doctrine. Specifically a consortium of publishers backed by Oxford, Cambridge and Sage sued Georgia State over copyright violations by many of the faculty. A decision has now been rendered. The Court backed Georgia State in almost every instance, finding no copyright violation. However, the Court did lay down some rules - in particular you can use no more than 10% or one chapter, whichever is shorter, of any book."
  9. Here's the spoiler: The answer is "not you."
  10. 2012-04-22 to , , by aldeka - Archived Link
  11. updated: 2012-04-18, original: 2012-04-18 to , , , , , , by mako - Archived Link
  12. James Grimmellmann argues that Google is a company that is out of control in regards to privacy. It's hard to disagree with him!
  13. What a mess! The US government takes down JotForm because somebody put something shady online.
  14. Hatin' on hoodies.
    updated: 2012-02-10, original: 2012-02-10 to , , , , , , , , by mako - Archived Link
  15. This is awesome. Too bad they're almost certainly going to lose. :(
    updated: 2012-02-02, original: 2012-02-02 to , , , , , , , , , , , , by mako - Archived Link
  16. Overview of a new book called "How To Fix Copyright" which sounds like something I could get behind.
  17. Simple little article on the history of piracy by Christine Schweidler and Sasha Constanza-Chock.

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