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Wednesday, 31 December '08 - 5:07:26 PM -0400
An anti-gun group is suing to stop enactment of Bush administration rules that would let people carry concealed weapons in many U.S. parks.
Thursday, 1 January '09 - 10:30:49 AM -0400
Viacom and Time Warner have settled on a new contract. They had disagreed over fee increases, and Viacom had threatened to pull the plug on its 19 cable channels, including MTV and Comedy Central.
Sunday, 4 January '09 - 7:45:20 PM -0400
Rhys Millen was nearly able to backflip a truck at the Red Bull: New Year. No Limits. Event in Las Vegas. His speed and rotation were perfect, but a slightly off-balance landing prevented him from riding away clean.
Wednesday, 5 November '08 - 6:31:31 PM -0400
A couple weeks ago, fanboy dorks exposed their stupidity to the wider community by hijacking the user reviews of two games on review aggregate site MetaCritic.
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The New Year brings news of a handy accessory for iPhone users who want to check their e-mail, change a song or send a tweet while standing outside in the cold.
The copyright expiry means that, from Thursday, anyone can print and sell Popeye posters, T-shirts and even create new comic strips, without the need for authorisation or to make royalty payments. Though it is a myth that he was coopted to promote spinach by the US Government, spinach sales in America rose by a third in the decade after his.
Oracle, Apple, Yahoo, Intel and several others are throwing their weight behind Microsoft as it tries to persuade the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit to overturn a $500 million jury verdict for infringing on a Lucent patent. In amicus briefs filed this month, the tech companies are urging the court to rein in the "entire market value rule, " which allows the calculation of damages based on the whole product, even if just one feature is infringed.
On Christmas Eve, South Korean game developer NCSoft received a lawsuit in its stocking from a Massachusetts firm that claims to hold an extremely broad patent for developing online virtual worlds.
Verizon has been awarded $33.15m In a cybersquatting lawsuit against a shady domain aggregator that registered hundreds of websites using the telco's name and trademarks.
A small networking services company was recently granted a patent covering the use of representational icons in an operating system. The company turned around and sued Microsoft, Apple, and even Google, just in time for the holidays.
In an aggressive response, unofficial Mac clone builder Psystar has made a controversial claim that Apple doesn't legally own the US rights to protect Mac OS X, invalidating a major component of its lawsuit.
The Internet can prove complex to some, especially copyright holders. Recently, the Entertainment Software Association (ESA) notified the webhosting company of a BitTorrent tracker dedicated to Open Source Software, that it was infringing copyright of one of their clients. Without any notice, the webhosting company pulled the tracker offline, not realizing that the tracker had done nothing.
A Spanish rights group for musicians and artists has been hiring detectives to sneak into weddings in order to videotape the goings on and catch certain venues using music illegally. The rights group collected a fine, but came out nearly 18,000 in the red after being fined itself.
Canadian users again face an increase in the cost of blank CDs, as the Copyright Board has increased levies on them by 38%. The raise was authorized in response to rises in music compression, and increases in songwriter royalties. With this rise, the Copyright Board is simply ignoring all technological advances since 1999, while the music industry.
Combining huge screens with usable keyboards in a pocketable package is the challenge phone manufacturers are eternally doomed to try to solve, leading to an endless stream of (mostly comical) patent applications for ridiculous form factors that will never see the light of day.
A wealthy film director is spending 40 million to build an exact replica of the Taj Mahal in Bangladesh, but Indian officials are trying to block its constructing, claiming the Taj Mahal, which was completed in 1653 is protected by copyright.
As part of their commitment to transparent and open government, the Obama Transition Team is posting the lobbying agendas of the groups it meets with for public review and comment. One of the more interesting documents to be found there is the Motion Picture Association of America's "international trade" agenda. Some of the MPAA's agenda is reasonable, such as cracking down on commercial optical disc piracy.
A Russian businessman has trademarked the combination of semicolon, dash and bracket that make up a winking face 'emoticon' in texts and emails.
The Free Software Foundation has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Cisco alleging that the company failed to fulfill its obligations under the General Public License when distributing Linux-based products with various GNU software components. The lawsuit is the culmination of a long-running licensing dispute between the two organizations.
Via 3 sources. 12.12.08 @10:40PM -0400