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By Eric Goldman
Novins v. Cannon, 3:09-cv-05354-AET -DEA (D. N.J. April 27, 2010). The CMLP page on Novins’ initial demand letter. The CMLP page on the lawsuit. An aborted lawsuit blog putatively by Novins.
This is a defamation action over a USENET post. Doing research for this blog post required me to go back into USENET, a place I haven’t been in years, and I was instantly reminded why I don’t go there any more. Putting aside the signal-to-noise ratio, I simply could not intellectually comprehend most of the posts I saw. It’s like the posts were written for people who live in a parallel English-speaking universe with a very different grammar and logic than mine. Who is still reading and writing this stuff??? And who in the world takes anything in an unmoderated USENET group seriously???
Charles Novins is an attorney. On Feb. 13, 2008, a person using the name Kevin Cannon posted to several USENET groups (apparently, none topical, e.g., alt.culture.alaska) a not-nice-if-untrue post entitled “Law Offices of Charles Novins hires drug addicts to fill your legal needs.”
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Back in December 2008, Warner Music Group pulled its music from YouTube when the two parties could not reach agreement on a new licensing arrangement. The agreements between YouTube and the major record labels apply to official and unofficial videos, so that move affected regular users who uploaded videos containing Warner Music songs. Those users received takedown notices, and a lot of them were not happy about it. Many created and uploaded protest videos aimed mostly at Warner Music and to some extent at Google for not being able to nail down an agreement.
On Tuesday, YouTube announced on its blog that Warner’s music will be returning to YouTube thanks to a new agreement. YouTube’s statement said that this “new, multi-year global agreement . . . covers the full Warner catalog and includes user-generated content containing WMG acts.”\
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Facebook, currently the fastest growing online social network, recently announced via its blog that its users will be allowed to create personalized usernames or “brands” for their Facebook pages. (See Coming Soon: Facebook Usernames). According to the blog, users will be allowed to choose their username on a first-come first-served basis beginning on Saturday, June 13th at 12:01 a.m. EDT.
This raises a red flag for intellectual property attorneys because these usernames may potentially infringe upon the intellectual property of their clients.
Elizabeth Ritter, Goodrich Law Firm, LLC
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This week: A snapshot look at how the surge in infringement suits by patent-holding companies is causing big woes for small companies, and potentially affecting the ability of many people to engage in a popular pastime.
Creating and sharing images—drawings, paintings, photographs—are among the most ancient of human activities, and throughout history, technology that makes that sharing possible has been embraced as rapidly as it appears. Today, that technology takes the form of software applications for computers and cell phones.
That all helps explain why the collection of scrappy entrepreneurs who run small and medium-sized photo-sharing companies didn’t always think about patents as they built up their businesses.
But patents are certainly on their minds now that they’ve been sued for infringement by a company they’ve never heard of, in a place they’ve never thought about, in a case that illustrates how the surge in lawsuits by patent-holding companies isn’t just taking a bite out of big companies—it’s hitting small businesses too.
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