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  • On the post: La Russa & The AP Claims Twitter Settled Lawsuit… Twitter Sets The Record Straight

    GregSJ ( profile ), 08 Jun, 2009 @ 09:31am

    Thank goodness

    Glad to see that the Twitter didn't settle. Way to go AP for providing another example of why main stream news is failing.

  • On the post: Yahoo Gets Aggressive: Wants Court To Make It Clear That It Doesn't Need To Pay To Use Player Names/Stats

    GregSJ ( profile ), 04 Jun, 2009 @ 06:57pm

    Re: Players Associations, Not Leagues

    Very true. That is what I deserve for being lazy. (I had hoped the case citations were evidence enough.)

  • On the post: Yahoo Gets Aggressive: Wants Court To Make It Clear That It Doesn't Need To Pay To Use Player Names/Stats

    GregSJ ( profile ), 04 Jun, 2009 @ 06:37pm

    Precedent

    Take 2 (for some reason all of my comments keep getting held for moderation.)
    Yahoo did indeed file the suit to get jurisdiction of their choice. The MN court has already heard this issue and held against the NFL (CBS Interactive, Inc. v. Nat. Football League Players Inc., 70:08-cv-0597-ADM-SRN (D. Minn.))
    Whereas the NFL won a similar lawsuit in Florida (Gridiron.com, Inc. v. Nat'l Football League, Player's Ass'n, Inc., 106 F. Supp. 2d 1309, 1315 (S.D. Fla. 2000))
    Thus given the NFL's threat in seems clear that Yahoo wanted to file first to get a jurisdiction with better precedent.

  • On the post: Taser Sues Second Life For Having Virtual Tasers

    GregSJ ( profile ), 21 Apr, 2009 @ 03:46pm

    Likelihood of Confusion

    Likelihood of confusion = 0.
    Cost of filing the suit = high.
    Cost of rewriting trademark law = higher (would be cheaper if everybody pooled resources but have a public good problem.)

    Thus:
    trademark law's obligation to protect = happy attorneys ...

  • On the post: Media Dinosaurs Look To Set Up iTunes For News

    GregSJ ( profile ), 16 Apr, 2009 @ 05:03pm

    Public Policy re: IP laws

    Mike,
    Great article! I think you got it exactly right when you said:

    The news is important, but people want to be able to share the news, spread the news and discuss the news -- and you can't do that when it's behind a paywall. The very act of putting up a paywall diminishes the value of the content.

    Seems to me this is the exact purpose of Intellectual Property law; to reward creators/inventors for sharing their ideas with the public. The concept being that the idea is much more valuable to society when it is shared.