Showing posts with label trademarks. Show all posts
Showing posts with label trademarks. Show all posts
24 November 2013

Misleading Figures Used To Puff Up Importance Of Intellectual Monopolies In Europe

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We've noted before attempts to inflate the importance of copyright, patents and trademarks by including a bunch of other sectors that...
10 March 2013

Python Trademark At Risk In Europe: Python Software Foundation Appeals For Help

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The open source programming language Python -- named after the British comedy series "Monty Python" -- became popular in the ...

Python in Peril - Please Help

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Trademarks are a problem for free software, because there is a tension between a desire to encourage sharing of the software, and a need...
10 February 2013

Danish Court Orders Spanish Site Blocked Because It Uses Trademarked English Word 'Home' As Part Of Its Name

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Daft trademarking stories are common enough, but it's always fun to come across new variations on the theme. Netzpolitik points us t...
06 January 2013

Mr. Cable: Disconnected from Digital Reality

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Rather out of the blue, Business Secretary Vince Cable has made a series of proposals affecting patents, copyright and trade marks: On ...
11 November 2012

Scientist Refused Permission To Call Hominids 'Hobbits', Even Though Word First Used In Print In 1895 -- And Not By Tolkien

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Techdirt has written before about the aggressive enforcement habits of the Tolkien estate, once in connection with the name " Tolkien...
15 July 2012

What Happens If File Sharing Can Also Be Prosecuted As Trademark Infringement?

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In the arguments over ACTA, one criticism seemed widely accepted: that it tries to bundle together two quite different challenges -- tack...
25 February 2012

Trademark Lobby Wants To Help European Court of Justice Forget About EU Citizens' Rights

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It was only yesterday that the European Commissioner Karel de Gucht made the surprise announcement that the European Commission would be ...
19 January 2012

Yet More Collateral Damage From SOPA/PIPA: Activism Through Satire

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Among the many high-profile organizations that are joining the SOPA blackout today is Greenpeace. That's great, except that you can...
16 December 2011

A Rational Way To Dispose Of Counterfeit Designer Clothes: Donate Them To The Homeless

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The narrative around counterfeit goods usually ends with their seizure. We rarely get to hear or see what happens to them afterwards unl...
20 October 2011

London 2012 Olympics Go For Gold in the Extreme 'Ambush Marketing' Law Event: 'Guilty Until Proven Innocent' – And No Streaking Allowed

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The Olympic Games are not just about sporting success, but also legal excess – in particular, taking laws to extremes in order to "pr...
02 September 2010

Foreworld as Foretaste

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I'm am currently staggering to the end of Neal Stephenson's The Confusion , loving every minute of this impossible, wandering, hyper...
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27 November 2009

Time to Abolish the Olympics?

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This is incredible: An American author and broadcaster claims Canadian border officials questioned her about whether she would discuss the ...
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13 January 2009

SAP True to its Name

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What is going through the mind of SAP? These people are *promoting* your products: Business Objects claims that no one can use a Crystal R...
14 August 2008

IOC Stays True to Olympic Spirit...

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...the Beijing Olympics spirit , that is : the IOC sent a take-down notice to YouTube for a video posted by Students for a Free Tibet. The v...
27 June 2008

Back-Door Maximalist Intellectual Monopolies

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This looks like a very serious attempt to bring in maximalist intellectual monopolies through an agreement called SECURE under the aegis of...
25 April 2008

Poor Little Rich Intellectual Monopolies

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Here's a droll piece about poor, little unloved intellectual monopolies: At the highest level, there are those who no longer believe th...
16 April 2008

Venezuela Gets It on Eye-Pea

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Who doesn't want intellectual prosperity ? The term “intellectual property” is a new-speak propaganda word. First, the topic it covers v...
14 February 2008

Code is Law is Code

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Code and law have been inextricably mixed ever since Richard Stallman drew up the first GNU GPL. Indeed, in many ways, the logical processe...
20 November 2007

What Can You Protect in Open Source?

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Marc Fleury is a Frenchman who famously made lots of dosh when he sold his open source company JBoss to Red Hat. That puts him in a strong...