"When Oxford University developed the vaccine AstraZeneca ended up owning... It was actually Bill Gates who lobbied Oxford... to say no, this has to be sold to a drug company'... so it becomes 'IP'... the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation have been central players in ensuring that no precedent is set in the context of COVID for commercially valuable products to break the normal market-based rules on how what's called 'IP' is distributed."
@nosat
If you had a single shred of evidence to present, we might have discussed it and learned something from each other. But as I expected, you have nothing to offer but - in the immortal words of the Bard - sound and fury, signifying nothing.
#IP#Copyright#PublicDomain: "2024 has been off to a busy start with the long-anticipated arrival of Mickey Mouse and Steamboat Willie in the public domain. Creators have released new games and stories, including a comic that picks up where Steamboat Willie ends. Comedian John Oliver has been showcasing a “Steamboat Mickey” mascot. CBS Sunday Morning even aired a Mickey-inspired celebration of the public domain featuring an interview with CSPD Director Jennifer Jenkins.
This is just the beginning of Mickey’s new life in the public domain. Next year, over a dozen Mickey Mouse cartoons from 1929 will join Steamboat Willie in the public domain. These cartoons continue Disney’s innovative experiments with synchronized sound and include The Karnival Kid, the first film in which Mickey speaks intelligible words. His first words? “Hot dogs! Hot dogs!”
Like other Disney works, The Karnival Kid builds upon prior public domain material. To attract an audience for Minnie Mouse’s “shimmy dancer” performance, the Karnival barker riffs on a 19th Century tune known as “the snake charmer song.” This melody has also been featured in numerous other Disney cartoons and may be familiar to readers from the scores of additional reuses in works ranging from The Simpsons to Ke$ha’s Take It Off." https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/newsletter/April2024/
RT @glynmoody
Join 28,000+ to show your support for the @internetarchive, libraries’ digital rights, and an open internet with safe, uncensored access to knowledge. - https://battleforlibraries.com "Big publishers are suing to cut off libraries’ ownership and control of digital books." #copyright
I own the #copyright for the lectures I give to college students, but for some reason the #FBI has not yet contacted me with offers to prosecute anyone recording all or portions of my lectures without my written permission. I'm seriously considering putting an FBI warning at the beginning of every lecture. I think it might start good conversations about whose interests the cops choose to protect in American society.
lmao. I got a DMCA takedown notice for my Colordle game yesterday ( https://colordle.lina.garden ), along with everyone else who forked the Reactle repo. today 404 is reporting on how bullshit it is! 🤣🖕
semi-related-ish ... someone here posted about their game being poached by game aggregator sites and adding a check to see if it's in an iframe and rendering something else. whoever that was, thanks for the tip!
My dream is that one day, the "public domain day" list of works entering the public domain will be completely impossible and infeasible to produce, let alone read.
Hey #lawfedi, do you think someone can draw Steamboat Willie (1928) without drawing "Steamboat Silly" (2023) Steamboat Willie? Where does this #IP hypo land? SCOTUS?
I've been looking in to cases assigned to Judge Seeger following a few orders refusing TRO's. Of course all the cases I am interested in are Schedule A cases and there are patterns in these cases.
For now though, what a gem, I have just found. This judge is right up there with my current fav.
How many Schedule A cases..? Have those cases made any dent in the amount of counterfeiting? If the answer is no, what is the purpose of
another game of Whack−A−Mole?
Since January 1, 2018, Plaintiff has filed 102 cases asserting claims of trademark
infringement or design patent infringement, that included a Schedule A, in the Northern District of Illinois.
since 2016, Plaintiff has identified and filed lawsuits against over 72,500 e-commerce storefronts
They say that it is having a drastic impact on counterfeiting.
I just wonder how many innocent small business got scooped up and ended up paying $
@SADLady@design_law In my experience there are almost always US based small businesses included. Just this week we had three clients dismissed from cases where they were US corporations where there are multiple government run databases available to the public with their officers, addresses, etc. listed. No excuse to say you need alternative service!
Telegram divulgue votre adresse #IP à n'importe qui parmi vos contacts lors d'un appel et un chercheur a créé un outil pour exploiter facilement cette #faille. #Telegram indique qu'il s'agit d'un comportement attendu, donc il n'y a rien à corriger.
C'est pourquoi la meilleure #alternative WhatsApp que je puisse vous conseiller est #Signal
Cool conference alert! CFP for #ISHTIP2024 is up -- if you are interested in the #Hist & #Theory of #IP get your proposal in by Jan 8. This international mtg will be @ Boston University, MA USA June 26-27: https://www.ishtip.org/?p=1374
