All Entries in the "Intellectual Property" Category
Monsanto insurance: USDA tells farmers to pay for avoiding troubles with agro-giant
RT, 22 November, 2012, 00:09 The United State Department of Agriculture has finalized a report to address concerns from farmers who fear they’ll be next on an ever-expanding list of defendants sued by biotech giants Monsanto, but those worries aren’t about to end. The Monsanto Company dominates more than just grow fields across the US, [...]
Steve Jobs: We’ve always been shameless about stealing great ideas (Triumph of the Nerds 1996)
Hypocrisy! I’m just sayin…. Apple vs. Samsung Injunction Hearing Date Set for December 6th FREDDY AUGUST 29, 2012 0 Apple has only just won their case against Samsung, but already the two companies are already scheduled to be back in the courtroom. Apple is now seeking injunctions against several Samsung devices, as follows: Galaxy S 4G Galaxy S II [...]
Regarding SOPA, government says users “poisoned the well”
by Christopher White Apparently, the government thinks we’re all stupid. That’s the only conclusion we can come to after reading what Stephanie Moore, chief counsel for the House Subcommittee on Intellectual Property, had to say about the online SOPA protests. Bloomberg reports that Moore believes the groundswell of anger against SOPA was a misinformation campaign perpetrated by a [...]
Agorism in Action!!! Pirate Bay plans to build aerial server drones with $35 Linux computer
By Ryan Paul The Pirate Bay (TPB), a popular BitTorrent website, experienced a brief stint of downtime this week. After restoring service, the site’s operators confirmed that the outage was caused by routine maintenance and not a law enforcement raid. According to a blog post published by TPB, system upgrades were needed in order to accommodate [...]
Oracle Lawsuit Alleges ‘gray Market Conspiracy’ Over Support Services
By Chris Kanaracus, IDG News Oracle is alleging that two companies violated its intellectual property as part of a “gray market” conspiracy to provide support for Oracle’s Sun Solaris OS and hardware, according to a lawsuit filed last week in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California. The complaint names managed services provider ServiceKey of [...]
The Painful Irony of an Anti-Piracy Group Being Sued for Piracy
BY MATTHEW BUZZI Dutch copyright watchdog BREIN is being sued by a musician for more than $1 million after allegedly using his song in copyright warnings on DVDs without explicit permission. Oh my. Musician Melchior Rietveldt was asked by BREIN to compose the song for a local film festival, but the group went on to use the song [...]
