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bwburke94 ( profile ), 19 Nov, 2017 @ 07:00pm

Calling Slater the "monkey selfie photographer" is giving him more credit than he deserves.

On the post: Real Life Soccer Player Besieged By Requests To Play For Foreign Team Due To Video Game Error

bwburke94 ( profile ), 13 Oct, 2017 @ 03:15am

Re: OOTP

It's interesting to note that both games have had their share of nationality issues in the past. OOTP Baseball didn't track secondary nationalities until this year's game, so a few Japanese-born players in South Korean leagues (or vice versa) were listed as the wrong nationality.

On the post: MLB Mulls Over Opposing Trademark For New Overwatch League Logo

bwburke94 ( profile ), 23 Jul, 2017 @ 04:12am

Just a heads-up, you used an outdated version of the NBA logo. They updated it this summer.

On the post: From Sans Serif To Sans Sharif: #Fontgate Leads To Calls For Pakistan's Prime Minister To Resign

bwburke94 ( profile ), 19 Jul, 2017 @ 01:17am

At the very least...

Don't credit the "sans-Sharif" pun to Financial Express. A Redditor came up with it first.

On the post: Homeowner's House Burns Down, He Tries To Rebuild… But Facing Copyright Threats From Original Builder

bwburke94 ( profile ), 02 May, 2017 @ 04:22am

Re: Clean-room reverse engineering?

Why no mention of the name of the developer, "who is well known"? The source for this is /r/legaladvice. Its users tend to avoid naming involved companies unless they have to, and the subreddit specifically bans posting of personally identifiable information.

On the post: Researcher: 90% Of 'Smart' TVs Can Be Compromised Remotely

bwburke94 ( profile ), 07 Apr, 2017 @ 02:08pm

My real question is:

Only 90%?

On the post: Indoor Football Team Lets Fans Pretty Much Run Everything From A Phone App

bwburke94 ( profile ), 01 Mar, 2017 @ 09:10am

I'm surprised the "consult the Helix Fossil" play never got called.

On the post: LA Chargers Already Face Trademark Opposition To Their Name Over The Term 'L.A.'

bwburke94 ( profile ), 19 Jan, 2017 @ 06:08am

The reason LA Gear won't win this thing

Where were they when the NBA's Los Angeles Clippers officially changed their name to "LA Clippers" in 2015? Shouldn't they have objected to that trademark filing as well?

On the post: CBS Sues Public Domain For Existing

bwburke94 ( profile ), 06 Dec, 2016 @ 04:46pm

Re: Re: Lover this..

The original story did have seven dwarfs. Disney owns the individual dwarf characters - their personalities were created for the film - but not the group of seven dwarfs itself.

On the post: Gone To Pot: The Toronto Maple Leafs And Snoop D-Oh-Double-G In Trademark Spat

bwburke94 ( profile ), 17 Nov, 2016 @ 09:45pm

LOL LEAFS

Maybe next time they blow a 4-1 third period lead, it's because they'll be smoking inside a hockey rink.

On the post: Actual Creators Of Email Not At All Happy The Fake Creator Of Email Got Paid For His Bogus Claim

bwburke94 ( profile ), 07 Nov, 2016 @ 03:43pm

I think we get the point.

Ayyadurai did not invent email. But neither did he invent trolling for attention, and that's all we're giving him here.

On the post: Benchmark: Video Games Now Realistic Enough For Racing Games To Factor Into Racing Certs

bwburke94 ( profile ), 01 Jun, 2016 @ 10:38am

Believe me, the moment that Major League Baseball teams start looking to the management of video game teams as a proving ground for hiring general managers and coaches, I'll have a whole new career path on my hands.

"Video game" might be a misnomer in this case, they'd be looking at the text sim players. And even then, what works in Out Of The Park doesn't always work in real life...

On the post: The Fight Over Copyrighting Klingon Heats Up, And Gets More Ridiculous

bwburke94 ( profile ), 09 May, 2016 @ 10:07am

I don't think this is really about Klingon.

This is about the legal status of derivative works in general. Klingon is just a distraction.

On the post: Bernie Sanders' Campaign Joins Too Many Other Presidential Campaigns In Abusing Trademark Law

bwburke94 ( profile ), 16 Apr, 2016 @ 06:30am

This is a use of Bernie's campaign logo for anti-Bernie purposes. I don't fault the campaign for going after this guy, even if we know it's not actual infringement.

Of course, maybe this was a reverse-Streisand, and Bernie wanted the image to be widespread to mock McCall or something. Just a thought.

On the post: DailyDirt: That's No Moon, And It's Not A Space Station, Either

bwburke94 ( profile ), 09 Apr, 2016 @ 09:45pm

Re:

I'll miss Stephen Fry.

On the post: Court To Film Director: You Must First Create An Infringing Work Before We Can Discuss Whether Or Not It's Actually Infringing

bwburke94 ( profile ), 24 Mar, 2016 @ 10:52pm

Another idea to loophole around this

Why can't the filmmaker just make a five-minute ashcan thing as the "potential" infringement?

On the post: India Finally Bows To US Pressure: Promises Not To Use Compulsory Licensing For Drugs

bwburke94 ( profile ), 11 Mar, 2016 @ 04:03am

Filthy 'Muricans, always spreading their influence to the rest of the world.

But at least Disney doesn't control the Indian government yet.

On the post: NY DA Cy Vance Asks Law Enforcement About Problems With Encryption; Won't Take 'No Problems' For An Answer

bwburke94 ( profile ), 10 Mar, 2016 @ 03:20am

Cy Vance, please answer "yes" or "no"...

...have you stopped beating your wife?

On the post: Copyright Office Decides To Rewrite Copyright Law Itself, Blesses A 'Making Available' Right That Isn't There

bwburke94 ( profile ), 25 Feb, 2016 @ 06:59am

As much as I hate to say this...

I think the Copyright Office has a point. Digital files do need copyright protection of some sort.

Now, the whole "making available" thing is bullshit, but in the modern world there's no reason for the term "copies" to only apply to physical material objects.

On the post: Wikimedia Takes Down Diary Of Anne Frank, Uses It To Highlight Idiocy Of DMCA Rules, Copyright Terms

bwburke94 ( profile ), 12 Feb, 2016 @ 04:05pm

Regarding the "retroactive" copyright extensions and ex post facto

The copyright extensions didn't put any previously public-domain works back into copyright, so they were not completely retroactive, were they?

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