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• On the post: Random Musk Fan Tries To Get Trademarks On Tesla’s Behalf, Which Is Not How This Works

  

  Jon Reeves ( profile ), 10 Jan, 2023 @ 11:52pm

  And sadly, that case would probably be more watertight than the truck.

• On the post: LA County Sheriff Still Targeting Critics, Searches Home Of Civilian Oversight Board

  

  Jon Reeves ( profile ), 22 Sep, 2022 @ 12:20am

  An update

  According to today's L.A. Times, this investigation has now been taken away from the LASD by the state's Attorney General.

• On the post: LA County Sheriff Still Targeting Critics, Searches Home Of Civilian Oversight Board

  

  Jon Reeves ( profile ), 20 Sep, 2022 @ 07:52pm

  Oh, but it gets better

  The last 3 grafs of the original story are where yet another layer of corruption is hiding:

  A lead investigator of the sheriff’s public corruption unit is Mark Lillienfeld, a retired homicide investigator with a decades-long relationship with Richman, the judge who approved the warrants served Wednesday. They have known each other since at least 1996, when Richman was a prosecutor handling an attempted murder case Lillienfeld investigated. The detective would later visit the judge’s home to get warrants signed. Lillienfeld’s wife worked in Richman’s courtroom, transcribing hearings as an official court reporter. Their relationship came under scrutiny several years ago when there was an internal Sheriff’s Department inquiry into whether Lillienfeld tried to help Richman out of legal trouble.

  As columnist Steve Lopez wrote, it's like something out of Chinatown.

• On the post: Not How Any Of This Works: Mariah Carey Sued Over Title Of Song

  

  Jon Reeves ( profile ), 06 Jun, 2022 @ 10:44pm

  In violent agreement

  I'm not arguing with the point of Mike's article; if anything, I'm reinforcing it. The point is, there's nothing special about the title. It's been used dozens of times. I just had to check to confirm that the copyright really was valid to satisfy my own curiosity.

• On the post: Not How Any Of This Works: Mariah Carey Sued Over Title Of Song

  

  Jon Reeves ( profile ), 06 Jun, 2022 @ 05:53pm

  Copyright records

  OK, I had to look, and Stone's version is indeed properly copyrighted -- registration PAu001163343 / 1988-11-21. I have to wonder how his cowriter, Troy Powers, feels about all this. I count up to 16 earlier songs copyrighted with the same title, plus one by Steve Allen from 1959 called All I Want for Christmas Is Your Love. And this is just registrations/renewals since 1978.

• On the post: Former Reddit CEO: Content Moderation Teams Don’t Care About Your Politics, They Just Want You To Stop Being A Jerk

  

  Jon Reeves ( profile ), 18 Apr, 2022 @ 02:14pm

  Reaction from Elon

  So his tweet in response to this long, thoughtful post from someone with real-world experience?

  My most immediate takeaway from this novella of a thread is that Twitter is way overdue for long form tweets!

  Proof that Elon is still a man-child, unable to believe anyone else's experience could possibly teach him something.

• On the post: Elon Musk Demonstrates How Little He Understands About Content Moderation

  

  Jon Reeves ( profile ), 15 Apr, 2022 @ 02:36pm

  Code is easy, data is hard, speech is even harder

  When I worked for a company that processed and validated user-supplied data, I often used the aphorism "code is easy, data is hard" (as a coder for 20+ years, I felt somewhat qualified to judge). That's because the computer will usually tell you if your code is wrong, but data can be wrong for years and not be noticed. And yes, I'm joking somewhat when I say that code is easy. From my experiences with that company, which also hosted user posts at the time, and from what I've read since, I would modify that now to what I put in my headline: "Code is easy, data is hard, speech is even harder." It seems like Musk is still coming to the realization of my first version (cf. FSD, which involves lots of real-world data).

• On the post: Rep. Ken Buck Threatens To Use Antitrust To Attack ‘Woke’ Apple

  

  Jon Reeves ( profile ), 05 Apr, 2022 @ 09:41am

  Headline error

  Buck is a Congressman/Representative (from Colorado), not a Senator.

• On the post: Monster Energy Buys A Brewery; Trademark Lawsuits Are Almost Sure To Follow

  

  Jon Reeves ( profile ), 13 Jan, 2022 @ 09:26pm

  Update on the teen (actually, he was 21 at the time)

  I got curious, and found this update: https://www.theunion.com/news/nevada-city-energy-supplement-business-returns-after-2019-logo-opposition-from-monster-energy/

  In short, he redesigned his logo to remove any obvious "M" - it's now so stylized even Monster's lawyers apparently can't find a similarity.

• On the post: Monster Energy Opposes Teenager's Trademark Application Over Logos Not At All Similar

  

  Jon Reeves ( profile ), 13 Jan, 2022 @ 09:23pm

  New year, new logo

  An update: https://www.theunion.com/news/nevada-city-energy-supplement-business-returns-after-2019-logo-opposition-from-monster-energy/ -- in short, he now has a completely new logo.

• On the post: Hey North Face! Our Story About You Flipping Out Over 'Hey Fuck Face' Is Not Trademark Infringement

  

  Jon Reeves ( profile ), 15 Nov, 2021 @ 12:37pm

  Mike is not a lawyer...

  ... otherwise, he might have simply referred them to Arkell v. Pressdram.

• On the post: Kickstarter For Hand-Drawn Video Game Manuals Shuts Down Due To IP Threat

  

  Jon Reeves ( profile ), 15 Sep, 2021 @ 05:07am

  Re: naming the bully

  From the latest followup posted, it seems they actually think they might be able to work something out (which probably means either they are painfully naive or it's not Nintendo). Of course, since they are doing manuals for three different games from three different companies, working something out with just one of them doesn't put them entirely in the clear... Also, to be clear, they have said what they got was not a formal cease and desist letter. Rather, "We were contacted by a lawyer representing one of the game companies suggesting there may be [unspecified] concerns."

• On the post: Edvard Eriksen Estate Goes After Another Danish City For Having A Mermaid Statue

  

  Jon Reeves ( profile ), 21 Aug, 2021 @ 02:39am

  Term of copyright

  In case anyone is wondering, like me, when the statue falls out of copyright, the two key facts: The statue was made in 1913 -- except that doesn't matter under Danish law; the sculptor died in 1959. Danish copyright is life+70, so the statue enters public domain in 2029. Which means we have 8 more years of this nonsense to look forward to.

• On the post: Axios Parrots A Lot Of Dumb, Debunked Nonsense About Net Neutrality

  

  Jon Reeves ( profile ), 21 Jul, 2021 @ 05:23am

  Link to article

  Since this article didn't provide the link, here is the original article on Axios.

• On the post: Tenth Circuit: No Immunity For Cops Who Protected An Abusive Fellow Officer Right Up Until He Murdered His Ex-Wife

  

  Jon Reeves ( profile ), 15 Jul, 2021 @ 09:22pm

  It just keeps getting worse...

  And after Contreras took the cell phone, he broke into her house (because she had changed the locks) which is where the Chief relieved him of one weapon -- but did not force him to leave.

• On the post: Tenth Circuit: No Immunity For Cops Who Protected An Abusive Fellow Officer Right Up Until He Murdered His Ex-Wife

  

  Jon Reeves ( profile ), 15 Jul, 2021 @ 09:16pm

  And Tim didn't even mention the child porn!

  From the decision:

  In 2003, SCPD investigated allegations that Contreras had sexually abused a child, but SCPD ultimately concluded the allegations were unsubstantiated.
  The documentation of the investigation has since disappeared. After Ms. Bascom’s murder, SCPD came to possess a memory card that contained apparent child pornography, including images of Contreras, in uniform, exposing himself to young girls.

• On the post: Tenth Circuit: No Immunity For Cops Who Protected An Abusive Fellow Officer Right Up Until He Murdered His Ex-Wife

  

  Jon Reeves ( profile ), 15 Jul, 2021 @ 09:10pm

  Chief resigned

  I got curious to see if there were any consequences for the chief in this case, and discovered something interesting: He retired very suddenly in May 2018, appearing unannounced at a City Council meeting and giving only one week's notice. That... is not how one normally retires.

• On the post: Inconceivable: TikToker Who Made Paint Mixing Very, Very Cool… Is Fired From Sherwin-Williams For Doing So

  

  Jon Reeves ( profile ), 24 Nov, 2020 @ 10:00am

  Yay for Florida Paints

  And there's an update: In a video just posted to his account, Anthony says he has now been hired by the company Florida Paints and will be moving to Florida to help make their paint cool. So there's at least one paint company that gets it.

• On the post: Join The Fan Fiction Deep State And Watch This Latest Video That Addison Cain Really Doesn't Want You To See

  

  Jon Reeves ( profile ), 26 Oct, 2020 @ 10:41pm

  Re: streisand effect

  It's even more explicit (and funnier) at https://youtu.be/K3v5wFMQRqs?t=1119

• On the post: How Linus Torvalds Invented Today's Work From Home Paradigm In 1991

  

  Jon Reeves ( profile ), 15 Oct, 2020 @ 09:04am

  So, is Richard Stallman chopped liver?

  Let's not forget that, while Linus was responsible for the kernel, some 90% of the codebase of the GNU/Linux system predates him, dating back as far as 1983 (though it's less clear when it became a work-from-home project).

  Now if you want to credit Linus for Git/Github, that's a different story, and probably the one you should have written.

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