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• On the post: Game Creator Has His YouTube Video Of Game Demonetized Over Soundtrack He Also Created

  

  bwburke94 ( profile ), 09 Sep, 2020 @ 07:01pm

  Re:

  Dan is a reasonable Japanese name. Salvato... isn't.

• On the post: Richard Liebowitz's 'Client' Sends Judge A Letter Saying He Was Totally Unaware Of Multiple Lawsuits Filed In His Name

  

  bwburke94 ( profile ), 15 Jul, 2020 @ 09:57am

  In a sane world, Liebowitz would have been disbarred long ago.

• On the post: As Devin Nunes Threatens More SLAPP Suits, He May Have To Explain Why Cows Can Type In His First SLAPP Suit

  

  bwburke94 ( profile ), 02 Dec, 2019 @ 09:54am

  Some evidence Nunes can use:

  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Click%2C_Clack%2C_Moo

• On the post: It's Amazing All The Cool Stuff We Could Have If Nintendo Didn't Insist On Nintendo-Ing

  

  bwburke94 ( profile ), 05 Oct, 2019 @ 12:23am

  What of the original Donkey Kong arcade game does Nintendo own?

  Given the game's complicated history, this may potentially be copyright fraud on Nintendo's part.

• On the post: Moviepass Changed User Passwords So They Couldn't Use The Flopping Service

  

  bwburke94 ( profile ), 06 Sep, 2019 @ 01:52pm

  Re: I'm no lawyer...

  It absolutely is, but MoviePass knew by this point they'd be dead before anyone could sue them for it.

• On the post: Why Is MLB Claiming Revenue From Obviously Fair Use Videos On YouTube?

  

  bwburke94 ( profile ), 22 Aug, 2019 @ 09:48pm

  There's only one solution to this mess.

  Abuse your copyright? Lose your copyright.

• On the post: THE Ohio State University Applies For THE Stupidest Trademark In THE World

  

  bwburke94 ( profile ), 20 Aug, 2019 @ 06:56am

  *AN Ohio State University

• On the post: That Was Quick: Thomas Goolnik Already Gets Google To Forget Our Latest Story About Thomas Goolnik Getting Google To Forget Stories About Thomas Goolnik

  

  bwburke94 ( profile ), 18 Apr, 2019 @ 09:42am

  Thomas Goolnik Thomas Goolnik Thomas Goolnik

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• On the post: Judge Recommends Vacating The Sentence Of One Of The FBI's Handcrafted Terrorists

  

  bwburke94 ( profile ), 17 Jan, 2019 @ 07:36am

  Apparently Hayat was a cherry picker.

  But are we sure the FBI wasn't the one doing the cherry-picking?

• On the post: ICE Seizes Over 1 Million Websites With No Due Process; Apparently Unaware That Copyright & Trademark Are Different

  

  bwburke94 ( profile ), 20 Dec, 2018 @ 11:29pm

  Taking ICE head-on

  ICE claims that what they're doing is an attempt to follow *copyright* law
  
  I'd like to see what their basis for that claim is.

• On the post: Fan Translator Likely Finds His Work In Official Game Release And Is Totally Cool With It

  

  bwburke94 ( profile ), 24 Oct, 2018 @ 09:50pm

  Re: So says one admitted nut-burger. Translating isn't creative.

  The obvious refutation is that stealing movies costing million of dollars without giving even a penny to the creators for it is proportionately worse.
  
  Leaving aside the theft argument, it doesn't matter which is worse, because they're both blatantly illegal.

• On the post: Fan Translator Likely Finds His Work In Official Game Release And Is Totally Cool With It

  

  bwburke94 ( profile ), 24 Oct, 2018 @ 09:48pm

  Re: New Work

  Assuming the official Italian translation was released worldwide, it would be subject to the local laws everywhere it was released, some of which clearly give copyright to the fan translator.
  
  There are past cases of fan translations being used officially, but none I can think of that did so without asking the fans, probably for this reason.

• On the post: This Week In Techdirt History: August 19th – 25th

  

  bwburke94 ( profile ), 25 Aug, 2018 @ 06:06pm

  I'm just curious: why is the "This Week in Techdirt History" about the *preceding* week?

• On the post: Facebook's 'Privacy Protecting' VPN Booted From Apple Store For Snooping Too Much

  

  bwburke94 ( profile ), 23 Aug, 2018 @ 02:49pm

  Ah, Facebook. Snooping as usual, I see!

• On the post: Texas A&M Wins Trademark Suit Against Soap Company In Washington State By Playing Six Degrees Of Trademark Licensing

  

  bwburke94 ( profile ), 20 Jul, 2018 @ 11:57am

  Re:

  Personally, I prefer the xkcd version.
  
  https://www.xkcd.com/326/

• On the post: Copyright As Censorship: FIFA's Overaggressive Copyright Takedowns Target Fans Celebrating And Pussy Riot Protesting

  

  bwburke94 ( profile ), 17 Jul, 2018 @ 02:54pm

  I suppose that FIFA have never heard of what happened to Barbra Streisand.

• On the post: Yes, Privacy Is Important, But California's New Privacy Bill Is An Unmitigated Disaster In The Making

  

  bwburke94 ( profile ), 09 Jul, 2018 @ 08:32pm

  Redundancy

  Did anyone else notice that "preferences" is listed twice under K?

• On the post: Funniest/Most Insightful Comments Of The Week At Techdirt

  

  bwburke94 ( profile ), 06 May, 2018 @ 05:53pm

  Wouldn't the Chinese name for Goku be "Wukong"?

• On the post: Facebook Derangement Syndrome: The Company Has Problems, But Must We Read The Worst Into Absolutely Everything?

  

  bwburke94 ( profile ), 09 Apr, 2018 @ 01:19pm

  "and therefore every single thing that Facebook does..."

  With apologies to Mike Godwin, did we not say the same about Hitler?

• On the post: Hopefully For The Last Time: The US Has Zero New Works Enter The Public Domain On January 1st

  

  bwburke94 ( profile ), 02 Jan, 2018 @ 07:04pm

  Re:

  To which I ask: What copyright? There never was a legitimate copyright on Steamboat Willie, because the copyright notice was botched. This is similar to the Night of the Living Dead situation, but unlike Romero, no one's ever gone after Disney in court.

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