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06
2010
By Wendy Davis
slate
Posted Thursday, Feb. 12, 2009, at 4:49 PM ET
Last April, startup real estate news site BlockShopper ran the headline “New Jones Day Lawyer Spends $760K on Sheffield” with a link to the bio for the lawyer in question—Jacob Tiedt—from the Web site of his law firm, Jones Day. In July, it ran a similar item about a home purchase by Dan Malone Jr., another Jones Day lawyer, with the link to his Jones Day bio.
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Categories : Keywords/Meta-tags, Trademarks, deep linking
30
06
2010
Most likely, Craig Vernor had no idea the firestorm he would create when he decided to put used copies of AutoCAD, a 3-D modeling software often used by architects, up for sale on E-Bay. He wanted to sell the $4,000 software (when new) for about $400 online. (Vernor’s actions on E-Bay are by no means the first of their kind. At present, E-Bay has 19 sub-categories of software for sale.)
Autodesk, the software’s creator and parent company, immediately demanded that the items be removed from E-Bay due to copyright infringement.
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Categories : Copyright, First Sale Doctrine, Terms of Service
30
06
2010
We all remember Jammie Thomas-Rasset, the first person to ever respond to an RIAA file-sharing lawsuit by going to trial, rather than settling for a few thousand dollars (as the vast majority of individuals sued by the RIAA typically do.) Well, the litigation continues, and the RIAA’s initial award of $1.92 million keeps going down.
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Categories : Copyright
28
06
2010
This morning, the Supreme Court decided the long-running Bilski case (PDF) on business method patents—a case with broad applicability to software patents. As expected, the Court struck down the Bilski patent itself as an unpatentable “abstract idea”—but it also said that business method and software patents can be legitimate.
The case began when one Bernard Bilski tried to patent “a method for managing the consumption risk costs of a commodity sold by a commodity provider.” The application included some broad statistical algorithms for hedging risk, but then asserted broad ownership over the way that these principles could be implemented by others.
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Categories : Patent
27
06
2010
Nate Anderson
Ars Technica
June, 2010
Has file-sharing helped society? Looked at from the narrow perspective of existing record labels, the question must seem absurd; profits have dropped sharply in the years since tools like Napster first appeared. But a pair of well-known academics argue peer-to-peer file sharing has weakened copyright in the US… and managed to benefit all of us at the same time.
“Consumer welfare increased substantially due to new technology,” write Felix Oberholzer-Gee of Harvard and Koleman Strumpf of the University of Kansas. “Weaker copyright protection, it seems, has benefited society.”
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