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Lose Yoursuit
How did I miss this? Obnoxious rapper Eminem has sued Apple for using his composition "Lose Yourself" in a commercial for iPod. In the Apple commer…
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"Neiman Carcass" is Amusing, Not Confusing
The Fund for Animals runs a website using the domain names neimancarcass.com, neimancarcass.org and, of course, neimancarcass.net. As the domain name suggests,…
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Pop goes the Lawsuit
LL Bean sued 4 companies in Portland, Maine today claiming that the companies deployment of pop-up ads using "LL Bean" as a trigger infringed its trad…
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Siva out of the Library
Last night I finally got to meet Siva, on tour promoting his cool new book The Anarchist in the Library, which he was kind enough to sign for me. I've bee…
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Public Knowledge
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Parker Family Foundation Helps Out EFF's Patent Busting Project
I'm tickled to see that EFF has received a sizeable grant from the Parker family of Lexington, Massachusetts (not quite my home town) for the patent-busting…
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If the World Could Vote in November
The power of the American leader over the entire world population is quite stunning. This unhappiness with how this power has been wielded leads some in Europe…
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Illegal Art?
My column for Findlaw yesterday discusses the global intellectual property activism of Superflex, a Danish art group.…
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Threats and Torture Officially Approved
Official guidelines for interrogation permitted abuse, according to an NBC News report: The [Geneva] conventions state specifically that while being interrogat…
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Election Over- Thank You for Playing
I just learned of the following incident from an online acquaintance who lives in Texas (no offense to Texas- this probably happens everywhere). Her husband w…
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Antarctica--a version of the label that Guarana Power obscures
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Guarana Power
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