Tag Archives: copyright

Bloomberg – Apple Sues Amazon.com, Seeks Order to Stop Use of ‘App Store’ Trademark

Ughh when does it ever end.

March 21, 2011 – 8:04 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Copyright, Economics, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Electronic Frontier Foundation – Supreme Court to Hear Challenge to Law That Removes Works from the Public Domain

This should be declared uncon­sti­tu­tional, once work goes in the pub­lic domain, the work should stay there, per­pet­ual copy­right is a bad deal.

March 8, 2011 – 1:14 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Copyright, Culture, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Wolfire Games Blog – Counterfeit Lugaru on Apple’s App Store (developing)

Wow that’s inter­est­ing and a pretty bla­tant break­ing of trademark/copyright.

February 3, 2011 – 6:10 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Copyright, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

BBC News – Microsoft seeks to block Apple ‘App Store’ trademark

Right there with you Microsoft.

January 12, 2011 – 10:32 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Copyright, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off

TUAW – The GPL, the App Store, and you

Lots of infor­ma­tion into all the nuances of the GPL and how Apple could be right or could be wrong in it’s treat­ment of GPL licensed apps.

January 11, 2011 – 12:03 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Copyright, Programming, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off

ConceivablyTech – The Ultimate Patent Troll Patent: Get Sued When You File A Patent

Just when you thought patents couldn’t get any more stu­pid, IBM comes through.

January 3, 2011 – 10:03 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Copyright, Politics, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off

Thomas Hawk – Miami’s World Erotic Art Museum Fraudulently Uses the DMCA to Take Down Items in Their Collection From the Web

Another in a long list of DMCA abuses.

January 2, 2011 – 4:58 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Copyright, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off