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Don't Sue Me, Bro... Taser Drops Suit Against Second Life
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| TASER International has - at least for now - dropped a trademark infringement
| suit against Linden Lab, which operates Second Life.
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http://www.gamepolitics.com/2009/07/25/don039t-sue-me-bro-taser-drops-suit-against-second-life
Judge rejects fair use defense as Tenenbaum P2P trial begins
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| Hours before the second P2P file-sharing trial in the US gets underway, the
| judge finally rules that defendant Joel Tenenbaum cannot claim "fair use" in
| the case. The proposed defense would be "so broad it would swallow the
| copyright protections that Congress has created," she wrote.
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http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2009/07/judge-rejects-fair-use-defense-as-tenenbaum-p2p-trial-begins.ars
Recent:
Trademark Insanity
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| It's bad enough that we have to deal with struggles over the use of
| trademarks that have become generic terms, like "Xerox" and "Coke", and
| trademarks that were already generic terms among specialists, such
| as "Windows", but a new low in trademarking has been reached by the joint
| efforts of Dell and the US Patent and Trademark Office. Cyndy Aleo-Carreira
| reports that Dell has applied for a trademark on the term "cloud computing".
| The opposition period has already passed and a notice of allowance has been
| issued. That means that it is very likely that the application will soon
| receive final approval.
|
| [...]
|
| In other words, this is a pure example of theft from the public domain.
| Speakers of English have a term, "cloud computing", which the US government
| is on the verge of privatizing and assigning exclusively to Dell. Other
| companies providing similar services will not be able to describe what they
| are doing as "cloud computing" anymore than Nike will be able to describe its
| shoes as Reeboks.
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http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=434
Infringing On Wolverine?
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| Do me a favour folks - have a look at the screengrabs posted here (do feel
| free to view them larger by clicking on them) and tell me if any of these
| images even remotely refer to or is connect in any visual way to the upcoming
| movie "X-MEN ORIGINS: WOLVERINE"?
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http://toysrevil.blogspot.com/2009/04/x-infringed.html
Taser Sues Second Life Virtual World Creator Over Gun Sales
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| Taser International Inc. filed a trademark-infringement lawsuit against the
| Second Life online virtual world creator over claims it sells unauthorized
| virtual versions of its electric stun guns.
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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601103&sid=aR6xHcnBMn9M&refer=us
Taser Sues Second Life For Having Virtual Tasers
http://techdirt.com/articles/20090421/1310304599.shtml
Ubuntu Satanic Store issue cleared up
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| OK, I checked into it and I have managed to clear this up. Some kind of
| mistake occured and the Ubuntu Satanic Edition folks should not have got that
| letter. I spoke with our trademarks folks and they will be sending them an
| explicit trademark license as their merch is clearly under parody, which we
| are indeed cool about in the trademark license. Rock on!
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http://www.stefanoforenza.com/ubuntu-satanic-store-issue-cleared-up/
Ninth Lawsuit Against Google Over AdWords--Rosetta Stone v. Google
http://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2009/07/ninth_lawsuit_a.htm
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