You can’t make this stuff up. The State of Oregon Legislative Counsel Committee sent a cease and desist letter to Justia a couple weeks ago claiming that a copy of the Oregon Revised Statutes that Justia had published online infringed on the State of Oregon’s copyright to the statutes. While Oregon conceded that the text [...]
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Ore-gone Wild
April 23rd, 2008 · No Comments
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Corbis Sued for Copyright Infringement
October 12th, 2007 · No Comments
When the RIAA sues some teenager for sharing music on Kazaa, it’s no longer news. After a while, the legal machinations gets old. Quick. So, when a media company gets sued for copyright infringement, that’s news. Or is it?While browsing through Pravda Studios, LLC v. Corbis Corporation et al., I came [...]
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Copyrighted Cease and Desist Letter
October 8th, 2007 · No Comments
Public Citizen blogged about a <a href=”http://pubcit.typepad.com/clpblog/2007/10/dont-publish-th.html”>cease-and-desist letter</a> that counsel for DirectBuy, Inc. had recently sent. The letter states, “Please be aware that this letter is copyright by our law firm, and you are not authorized to republish this in any manner. Use of this letter in a posting, in full or in part, will subject [...]
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iPod + iBuzz = iSue
December 13th, 2006 · 1 Comment
PowerPage reports that Apple has threatened iBuzz for using silhouette-style ads to promote its music-activated sex toy. While iBuzz has pulled those ads off its UK website, they remain visible on the iBuzz US site.
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