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Star Trek app for iPad pulled after infringement complaint
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| Although PushyPixels maintains the company
| did not use any copyright or trademark
| infringing materials, it killed Captain's
| Log rather than get into a long, costly
| legal battle with Paramount.
|
| A Paramount Pictures spokeswoman,
| meanwhile, said PushyPixels simply did not
| have a license for the app, which was
| similar in design and function to an app -
| also called "Captain's Log" - that the
| studio is working on for the iPhone.
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http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/blogs/techchron/detail?blogid=19&entry_id=60618
Bad Publicity Forces Lawyers Out of Anti File-Sharing Cases
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| A British law firm, which only recently
| entered the file-sharing settlement letters
| business, has withdrawn due to masses of
| bad publicity. Tilly Bailey & Irvine, who
| tried to rewrite history on its Wikipedia
| page to remove its connection to this work,
| say that they fear the rest of their
| business could be damaged.
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http://torrentfreak.com/bad-publicity-forces-lawyers-out-of-anti-file-sharing-cases-100410/
TBI Solicitors lost its bottle? â Law firms pulls out of file sharing âventureâ
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| We covered TBI Solicitors in previous
| articles here. TBI were the law firm who
| were the latest crew to enter into the
| world of warning letters and fines for
| those suspected of file sharing.
|
| According to Which? TBI, (which was alleged
| to be pursuing amongst other material,
| Adult film titles, now appears to have
| removed itself from the practice making the
| comment:
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| We are concerned that the adverse
| publicity could affect other areas of
| our practice and therefore following
| discussions with our clients, we have
| reluctantly agreed that we will cease
| sending out further letters of claim.
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http://openbytes.wordpress.com/2010/04/11/tbi-solicitors-lost-its-bottle-law-firms-pulls-out-of-filesharing-issue/
Recent:
An Open Letter to The United States Trade Representative
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| Recently it was reported in the Guardian,
| an on-line newspaper, that the
| International Intellectual Property
| Alliance (IIPA) is requesting that the
| United States Trade Representative put
| Indonesia, Brazil and India on the "Special
| 301 Watchlist" specifically because those
| countries advocate the use of Free and Open
| Source Software (FOSS) in their economies.
|
| I have been in the software industry for
| over forty years, as a programmer,
| businessman, educator, author and
| entrepreneur. I have worked in some of the
| largest companies, both as a supplier of
| software and a customer of software.
|
| I have traveled to two of these three
| countries, and while I have not been to
| Indonesia, I helped formulate the FOSS
| policies of Malaysia, have worked with the
| government of Brazil, and presented many
| times in India. I know their cultures and
| their way of doing business.
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http://www.linux-magazine.com/Online/Blogs/Paw-Prints-Writings-of-the-maddog/An-Open-Letter-to-The-United-States-Trade-Representative
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