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Oregon once again claims that law is copyrighted
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| Well, those copyright assertions are back,
| this time by the Attorney General, who
| asserted ownership over the (for real!)
| Attorney General's Public Record and
| Public Meeting Manual. I spent last week
| in Oregon meeting with law school faculty
| and giving lectures at 3 universities on
| the topic of who owns the law.
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http://www.boingboing.net/2009/10/30/oregon-once-again-cl.html
'Twilight' fans told to stop making Rob Pattinson t-shirts
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| When most people think of the intellectual
| property fights with user-generated
| content websites, they think of cases like
| Viacom v. YouTube. Assuming that slow-
| moving case ever gets to trial, a court
| will determine what kinds of legal
| obligations the video sharing website has
| in policing its network for copyright
| infringement.
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http://www.thresq.com/2009/10/twilight-merchandise-lawsuit.html
Copycat Company Sues Original Artist To Void Copyright Claims
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| It's a natural impulse to want to support
| the little guy, the David who faces down a
| powerful Goliath. That's why it's easy to
| get behind this guy's claims that a
| copycat business is suing him to force him
| to abandon his own copyrights. Wtf!, you
| might say when you read something like
| that. Is that even possible? It is, and
| the story is more nuanced when you look at
| both sides, which makes it a good example
| of why it's sometimes hard to be a "good
| consumer" when deciding where to spend
| your money.
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http://consumerist.com/5390539/copycat-company-sues-original-artist-to-void-copyright-claims
Recent:
What use are research patents?
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| In any case, I'm not buying David's assertion that "most universities", or
| most hospitals or research institutes for that matter, rely heavily on
| licensing income. And that being so, I am also somewhat skeptical about the
| number of researchers' families being supported by patents.
|
| What's the Open Science connection? Well, if you're interested in patenting
| the results of your research, there are a lot of restrictions on how you can
| disseminate your results. You can't keep an Open Notebook, or upload
| unprotected work to a preprint server or publicly-searchable repository, or
| even in many cases talk about the IP-related parts of your work at
| conferences. It seems from the data above that most universities would not be
| losing much if they gave up chasing patents entirely; nor would they be
| risking much future income, since so few seem to get significant funds from
| licensing.
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http://www.sennoma.net/main/archives/2009/06/what_use_are_research_patents.php
Time to rethink intellectual property laws?
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| Conversely, there is widespread anecdotal evidence that the act created a
| mind-set among many researchers that their knowledge represents a potential
| goldmine not to be shared with potential competitors (i.e. those working in
| other universities) - at least until it has been protected by a patent
| application.
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| Similarly, the act has led to a flood of âupstreamâ patents on basic
| scientific knowledge, leading to what some commentators describe as a
| virtually impenetrable âpatent thicketâ blocking small-scale inventors from
| marketing their products. For example, restrictive software patents limit
| further development and commercialisation in the field of information
| technology.
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http://www.onlineopinion.com.au/view.asp?article=8543&page=
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