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Coverage of the Scopes Trial by H.L. Mencken (1925)(ia700409.us.archive.org)
2 points by teachingaway 11y ago|0 comments
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by teachingaway 11y ago
I used to litigate copyright cases. While your comment is technically true, for 98% of cases, you will need the copyright registration for any amount of meaningful copyright protection.
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by teachingaway 11y ago
If you put a lot of effort into a project and don't want it stolen, please REGISTER THE COPYRIGHT. 0. Register the copyright within 3 months after you publish the project. 1. Register online at https://eco.copyright.gov&#x2F
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by teachingaway 11y ago
noooo! this isn't a software problem. Just hook the fan up to the bicycle wheels! Pedal faster, fan goes faster. Product already exists (though somewhat expensive at $200) http://www.amazon.com/Kreitler-Killer-Add-On-H
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by teachingaway 11y ago
but can PG write again using only the ten hundred most common words? https://xkcd.com/1133/
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by teachingaway 11y ago
yeah, it looks like they are still under traditional copyright. It's just that the purchase price is $0.00. Free as in beer. Still, that's pretty cool!
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by teachingaway 11y ago
I think it's 'malpractice' risk. Like, if a lawyer give bad legal advice on a forum, and someone reads it and follows it and then loses a ton of money because of it, and then the reader sues the lawyer for malpractice. The pl
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“Piece of Shit” Patent Troll must pay $684k for suing Life360(arstechnica.com)
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by teachingaway 11y ago
I think the answer is this: the law requires the exact document - a shareholder consent. It's binary. Either you have the consent or your don't. The judges don't want to be bothered with shades of gray. Allowing an exception
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by teachingaway 11y ago
This x 10 for legal documents. Simplify them please.
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by teachingaway 11y ago
Champerty! Champerty is the (largely defunct) rule against funding someone else's lawsuit. I always thought that was a funny word. Champerty. But TIL that it comes from the fact that in "England, litigants could hire ‘champions’
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by teachingaway 11y ago
Yeah! right? But if I understand your project correctly, it also has every other possible continuation to that stanza in it somewhere?
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by teachingaway 11y ago
These infinity monkeys wrote shakespeare: preconizer arrythmically to be or not to be that is the question whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune or to take arms against a sea of troubles spea
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East Texas judge throws out 168 patent cases(arstechnica.com)
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Why I (Still) Don’t Make Investor Intros(siliconhillslawyer.com)
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What Shape is the Internet?(noahveltman.com)
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Ask HN: Have You Ever Missed an 83(b) Tax Filing?
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by teachingaway 11y ago
For a great collection of weird old patents, check out https://www.flickr.com/groups/1478617@N25/pool/ A flickr collection by LisaGenius.
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Open Patent Licensing Basics(techcrunch.com)
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US Patent Office doesn’t know if examiners are doing their jobs, watchdog says(washingtonpost.com)
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by teachingaway 12y ago
there's still a registered trademark for the logo, which includes the word "SRIRACHA" in it. http://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=74021095&caseType=SERIAL_N...
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by teachingaway 12y ago
I help clients negotiate SAAS deals, and I like this as a template. It's better than 95% of the contracts I see. But since this is the internet, I will use the rest of this post to complain about things: 1. Formatting: One column of te
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by teachingaway 12y ago
I disagree. A design patent for a user interface would do the trick. So would some clever copyright registrations. http://adlervermillion.com/user-interface-design-patents/ Not every lawyer knows/understands IP an
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by teachingaway 12y ago
Gray text on a light-gray background is difficult to read. http://contrastrebellion.com/
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Free-riding and copyleft in cultural commons like Flickr(lu.is)
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Raising Startup Capital – Link List(adlervermillion.com)
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Courts set a new record for invalidating software patents in 2014(vox.com)
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by teachingaway 12y ago
The quantity of diligence is usually proportional to the size of the deal.
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by teachingaway 12y ago
I think that link says he just won parts of the lawsuit. Other parts are still ongoing.
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by teachingaway 12y ago
> can't we just pass a law stating that "the patent is not being used for anything" is a valid patent suit defense? That's how patent law worked until the 1940s. It was called the "paper patent doctrine." i.

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