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Copyright Misuse
We filed a Motion to Amend the Complaint today to add a claim for copyright misuse by GOSH. The motion will be heard on March 18, 2005, before the Hon. Judge J…
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Peter Pan case: Motion to add copyright misuse claim
CIS filed a Motion to Amend the Complaint today. The new complaint filed by June Emily Somma, an author who wrote a sequel to J.M. Barrie's story Peter Pan…
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Compensating Victims of Terror
The administrator of the 9/11 fund established by the U.S. Government says that all families should have received the same amount, regardless of the occupation…
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Trusting Porsche AG
The Economist, Nov. 13th, reports that Porsche is refusing demands from the German Bourse to issue quarterly (not seminannual) reports. Porsche argues that rep…
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District Court holds that fair use allows copying of computer source code to extract embedded data for the purpose of improving
Evolution, a Kansas software development firm, created software (PF32) for STSC, a predecessor in interest to SunTrust, a Georgia bank, and PAC, a wholly-owned…
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EDPA Allows Record Companies' Case to Go Forward With Limitations
The District Court of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania granted a motion by the major record companies to subpoena the names and information of University of…
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Company Not Liable for the Unauthorized Spam of an Independent Promoter Marketing the Company’s Products
In September 2002, the plaintiffs received unsolicited email messages advertising software products of Redmond Venture, Inc. (Redmond). The plaintiffs brought…
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Online Gaming Company Ordered to Transfer Ownership of “trumpice.com” to Donald Trump
Real estate developer Donald Trump filed a complaint with the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) Arbitration and Mediation Center against Fountainh…
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Internet Archive's Web Page Snapshots Held Admissible as Evidence
The Internet Archive (IA) is a non-profit effort to preserve Internet sites and other digital media and make them available online. IA’s spiders regularly crawl…
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NPR on Peter Pan
NPR's All Things Considered recently broadcast a background story about JM Barrie and the Peter Pan stories. The broadcast is available for download here.…
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Red States Receive Wealth Transfer from Blue States
This may be fairly well known by now, but a quick review by my friend Jack Ayer shows that the Blue States subsidize the Red States. Comparing Fed expenditures…
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Chief Judge Babcock affirms rulings by Magistrate Judge Boland
Chief Judge Babcock today affirmed Magistrate Judge Boland's ruling in August in which he granted in part Plaintiff's 56(f) motion and denied the govern…