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Canada Ponders Indicting Bush
The Toronto Star, this week, considers in an op-ed whether Canada should indict George W. Bush for war crimes when he visits Canada. It would likely be a treme…
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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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Protecting Public Anonymity Paper
If you read this blog, you may have noticed a new article listed on my CMU website or the Articles section of this blog. But in case you didn't, Granger Mo…
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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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Forum Selection Clause in Clickwrap Software Licensing Agreement Upheld Where Software Was Bundled With Essential Services
Plaintiff Mortgage Plus, Inc., a Kansas mortgage lender, sought to utilize defendant's DocMagic, Inc.'s proprietary software and services to assist in t…
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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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Sixth Circuit Orders Cybersquatter to Transfer Domain Name “ForADodge.com” to DaimlerChrysler under ACPA
Plaintiff DaimlerChrysler has been using the “DODGE” trademark in the automobile sales and service industry since 1924. In 1994 DaimlerChrysler began advertisi…
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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…