http://www.techdirt.com/ Easily digestible tech news.... http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/10303023175/magic-hat-brewery-sues-west-sixth-brewing-using-number-six-their-logo.shtml#c342 Thu, 23 May 2013 16:51:06 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/10303023175/magic-hat-brewery-sues-west-sixth-brewing-using-number-six-their-logo.shtml#c342 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120827/12503920170/nsa-whistleblower-explains-how-nsa-is-collecting-data-all-you-hes-sorry-about-it.shtml#c1156 Thu, 23 May 2013 16:49:49 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120827/12503920170/nsa-whistleblower-explains-how-nsa-is-collecting-data-all-you-hes-sorry-about-it.shtml#c1156 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/10303023175/magic-hat-brewery-sues-west-sixth-brewing-using-number-six-their-logo.shtml#c341 Thu, 23 May 2013 16:44:47 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/10303023175/magic-hat-brewery-sues-west-sixth-brewing-using-number-six-their-logo.shtml#c341



* as seen on Numberphile, I don't claim this pun as my own.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/02514123171/partisanship-over-spying-journalists-is-stupid-spying-journalists-is-bad-period.shtml#c150 Thu, 23 May 2013 16:44:41 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/02514123171/partisanship-over-spying-journalists-is-stupid-spying-journalists-is-bad-period.shtml#c150 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/10303023175/magic-hat-brewery-sues-west-sixth-brewing-using-number-six-their-logo.shtml#c332 Thu, 23 May 2013 16:42:24 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/10303023175/magic-hat-brewery-sues-west-sixth-brewing-using-number-six-their-logo.shtml#c332 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/10303023175/magic-hat-brewery-sues-west-sixth-brewing-using-number-six-their-logo.shtml#c309 Thu, 23 May 2013 16:38:27 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/10303023175/magic-hat-brewery-sues-west-sixth-brewing-using-number-six-their-logo.shtml#c309
Three! The difference between a 6 and 9 is three. What does that have to do with trademarks?]]> http://www.techdirt.com/blog/wireless/articles/20130523/01030023182/man-butt-dials-911-while-discussing-murder-plot.shtml#c783 Thu, 23 May 2013 16:36:55 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/blog/wireless/articles/20130523/01030023182/man-butt-dials-911-while-discussing-murder-plot.shtml#c783 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/11301723178/amazon-wants-to-sell-fan-fiction-with-it-originator-fanfic-author-all-sharing-profits.shtml#c549 Thu, 23 May 2013 16:35:52 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/11301723178/amazon-wants-to-sell-fan-fiction-with-it-originator-fanfic-author-all-sharing-profits.shtml#c549
Anyway, on to the funny part. You think the Pirate Party is going to get copyright lowered to five years? In your lifetime? The Pirate Party is an international joke. A feckless bunch of malcontents, wannabe anarchists and the mentally ill. They're so pitiful in the US that the national party had to be taken over by the Florida state party which says a lot given they only consist of a handful of crackpots and losers. I predict it won't be long before you are begging Amazon to publish your drivel. Just remember 35% of zero is still zero.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/blog/wireless/articles/20130523/01030023182/man-butt-dials-911-while-discussing-murder-plot.shtml#c759 Thu, 23 May 2013 16:35:18 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/blog/wireless/articles/20130523/01030023182/man-butt-dials-911-while-discussing-murder-plot.shtml#c759 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/10303023175/magic-hat-brewery-sues-west-sixth-brewing-using-number-six-their-logo.shtml#c291 Thu, 23 May 2013 16:32:32 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/10303023175/magic-hat-brewery-sues-west-sixth-brewing-using-number-six-their-logo.shtml#c291 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/10303023175/magic-hat-brewery-sues-west-sixth-brewing-using-number-six-their-logo.shtml#c268 Thu, 23 May 2013 16:31:35 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/10303023175/magic-hat-brewery-sues-west-sixth-brewing-using-number-six-their-logo.shtml#c268
Please refer to "Love Potions" for prior art.

Oh, wait, I pulled a Savage and mixed those up.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130424/00010122821/adam-savage-why-copyright-trademark-holders-need-to-get-over-their-obsession-with-control.shtml#c50 Thu, 23 May 2013 16:29:41 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130424/00010122821/adam-savage-why-copyright-trademark-holders-need-to-get-over-their-obsession-with-control.shtml#c50 for 99.99% of the population, they *are* 'the same kind of shit'...

they simply don't follow these issues like most of techdirtia, *AND* -more importantly- they don't *care* to make the distinction between the legal constraints on copyright vs trademark; they only 'know' (*IF* they know this) that there is some sort of possible legal recourse if they do this or that which is natural for them to do in the course of incorporating *something*/*anything* which *may*, *possibly*, *kinda*, *sorta* be under *some* sort of copyrightrademark whatever...

sure, they hear scare stories which are too true about mothers being sued into oblivion for *something* about 'pirating' (and they surely won't know many -if any- of the details of the situation, much less the legal ramifications), but -like car accidents- those happen to the mythical 'other people'...

and *surely*, doing something as natural as remixing OUR kultur to propagate new/different kultur that is OURS, is as normal and necessary as respiration...

well, not under Empire, boobie:
the money is theirs...
the power is theirs...
the media is theirs...
the choices are theirs...
the voices are theirs...
the kultur is theirs...

...and *now*, even the very blood, sweat, and tears (C) of our existence: OUR lives, OUR words, OUR music, OUR art, OUR seeds, are milked from us, stolen from us, regurgitated to us for profit; in a diluted, whitewashed manner, unlike the original creations of OURS...

*HOW* or *WHY* should 'natural' nekkid apes feel *ANY* differently about THEIR OWN kultur ? ? ?

*ONLY* if they have been propagandized into believing in mythical 'intellectual property' and the insane 'rights' that have grown up around them in the course of the korporatocracy kontrolling The System...

otherwise,
THIS.
SYSTEM.
IS.
INSANE.
AND.
CRUEL.

art guerrilla
aka ann archy
eof]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/10303023175/magic-hat-brewery-sues-west-sixth-brewing-using-number-six-their-logo.shtml#c245 Thu, 23 May 2013 16:28:45 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/10303023175/magic-hat-brewery-sues-west-sixth-brewing-using-number-six-their-logo.shtml#c245 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130424/00010122821/adam-savage-why-copyright-trademark-holders-need-to-get-over-their-obsession-with-control.shtml#c29 Thu, 23 May 2013 16:24:11 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130424/00010122821/adam-savage-why-copyright-trademark-holders-need-to-get-over-their-obsession-with-control.shtml#c29 To me the lesson is that you can't ever leave the interpretation of fair use to the corporations.

His point would have better hit home if it wasn't spoken in the context of him conflating copyright and trademark. Total IP noobie.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/02514123171/partisanship-over-spying-journalists-is-stupid-spying-journalists-is-bad-period.shtml#c131 Thu, 23 May 2013 16:24:03 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/02514123171/partisanship-over-spying-journalists-is-stupid-spying-journalists-is-bad-period.shtml#c131 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/02514123171/partisanship-over-spying-journalists-is-stupid-spying-journalists-is-bad-period.shtml#c119 Thu, 23 May 2013 16:23:38 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/02514123171/partisanship-over-spying-journalists-is-stupid-spying-journalists-is-bad-period.shtml#c119 Just being a journalist doesn't suddenly make someone morally perfect or unable to commit a crime

So what you are saying is that it should be ok for the government to spy on anyone that is morally imperfect? Morality is, by definition, subjective. Your standard makes everyone a surveillance target.

This is not a case of "don't spy on the reporters that are suspected of criminal activity", this is a case of spying on them simply because they are journalists.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/00174423181/kim-dotcom-threatens-to-sue-google-facebook-twitter-over-2-factor-authentication-patent-if-they-dont-help-him.shtml#c1839 Thu, 23 May 2013 16:23:20 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130523/00174423181/kim-dotcom-threatens-to-sue-google-facebook-twitter-over-2-factor-authentication-patent-if-they-dont-help-him.shtml#c1839 http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/02514123171/partisanship-over-spying-journalists-is-stupid-spying-journalists-is-bad-period.shtml#c99 Thu, 23 May 2013 16:22:14 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/02514123171/partisanship-over-spying-journalists-is-stupid-spying-journalists-is-bad-period.shtml#c99

Media NOW..... boo fucking Hoo they are spying on us


Welcome to our world, media.
Maybe if you had done your job, being our watchmen of government. Nevermind, I am sure the White House's Corespondent's dinner was nice, and you will get that access to politicians you lust after.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/11301723178/amazon-wants-to-sell-fan-fiction-with-it-originator-fanfic-author-all-sharing-profits.shtml#c532 Thu, 23 May 2013 16:22:11 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130522/11301723178/amazon-wants-to-sell-fan-fiction-with-it-originator-fanfic-author-all-sharing-profits.shtml#c532
I'm surprised Amazon is against erotica fan fiction though. Everyone knows that sex sells, and the smut stories usually rank among the most popular in fan fiction.]]> http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130519/18102623141/so-its-come-to-this-seven-high-school-students-arrested-throwing-water-balloons.shtml#c2096 Thu, 23 May 2013 16:16:50 PDT http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130519/18102623141/so-its-come-to-this-seven-high-school-students-arrested-throwing-water-balloons.shtml#c2096