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Chinese Company Sues American Retailers For Selling 'Knockoffs' (1090) |
| Jake points us to a story that (as Jake notes) makes you read the headline twice to make sure you got it right: Chinese Company Sues in U.S. to Block "Knockoff". It's not really "knockoffs"... |
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Switzerland Decides That It's Ok For Private Firm To Violate Your Privacy If It's Searching For 'Pirates' (1032) |
| Last year, Swiss officials told Logistep -- one of a few companies that tries to scan file sharing networks for IPs used by suspected copyright infringers -- that its efforts were an illegal... |
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From Russia, With Stupidity: Band Must Pay Fines To Itself (583) |
| Reader Wesha sends in the news that the band Deep Purple has been fined for performing its own songs in Russia without first getting a license from the Russian Authors' Society (NGO). And i... |
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TSA Vendor Who Lost Laptop Apologizing To People Who Didn't Even Apply (564) |
| We recently wrote about how TSA-approved vendor, Verified Identity Pass, had lost a laptop containing all sorts of unencrypted data on people who had applied to be a part of the TSA's "fast ... |
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RIM Pays Off Wi-LAN To Get Rid Of Another Patent Suit (552) |
| Wi-LAN is a Canadian company that did some early work in the wireless field, but was unable to actually make much of a business out of its work, so it took the loser's route: it started suin... |
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Tiffany Still Confused About How Liability Works; Appeals eBay Decision (542) |
| Last month a US court correctly pointed out that eBay was not liable for counterfeit products showing up on the auction site. That doesn't mean that it's legal to sell counterfeit products,... |
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'Innocent Infringement' As A Way To Lower Copyright Infringement Damages? (541) |
| You often hear it repeated that "ignorance is no defense" to breaking the law, but it may actually be working in one copyright infringement lawsuit. Ray Beckerman has the details on a case ... |
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Dear Old Media: You Can't Delay The News; Nor Should You Want To (524) |
| David Carr, over at the NY Times, has a good column pointing out not just how silly NBC's efforts to block all websites from showing the Olympics opening ceremony before it broadcast the (lo... |
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Recipes: Shared And Improved On For Years... Now Targeted By Copyright Cops? (274) |
| Earlier this year, we noted that intellectual property issues were moving into the restaurant business, as one restaurant owner accused another of stealing both a restaurant concept and reci... |
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Why Segway Failed To Reshape The World Focused On Invention Rather Than Innovation (257) |
| In January of 2001 word began to leak that Dean Kamen was working on something a href=httpwwwtechdirtcomarticles200101091558222shtmlamazinga that would change the world If you were paying a... |
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