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Oprah can relax, $1 trillion lawsuit is dismissed
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| Then the National Enquirer reported that a poet named Damon Lloyd Goffe had
| filed an audacious complaint claiming copyright infringement. Only problem
| was that Goffe never registered the copyright on his poems, and more than a
| week before many news outlets were reporting the $1 trillion lawsuit, a judge
| had already dismissed the complaint for lack of subject matter jurisdiction.
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http://www.thresq.com/2009/08/oprah-trillion-dollar-lawsuit-poet.html
Godzilla Takes On Comcast Over Trademark
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| Comcast, for its part, denies that the character is Godzilla, though Toho
| doesn't buy it. Of course, you might ask where's the actual "harm" here, as
| it would seem to only help advertise Godzilla and Godzilla movies -- though,
| Toho would likely argue that the harm is in Comcast not licensing the
| character (or the potential idea that this makes Godzilla "generic").
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090808/1045435810.shtml
Once Again, Established Businesses Get Angry At 'Free' Competition
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| It's no secret that established businesses or organizations get upset when
| they see any form of "free" competition -- even when it's utilizing a new or
| different business model or social model.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090807/0241005799.shtml
Yes, sharing now makes you a terrorist, too (see below).
Recent:
Media Analyst Calls Hulu 'Anti-American' For Providing Free Content
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| We see all sorts of confused analysis when it comes to how "free" works in
| economics -- which goes back to our assertion that the human brain tends to
| run into a mental block when it encounters a zero and rather than recognize
| the rest of the economic equation, it just pops out an error message. That's
| the only explanation I can find for the so-called analysis by Media Metrics'
| Laura Martin of how Hulu is "anti-consumer, anti-media employees, and even
| anti-America" and supposedly putting $300 billion worth of market value "at
| risk" (thanks Ben for sending this in).
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090615/1148005239.shtml
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