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Under Copyright Law’s Fedora: Paul Zukofsky’s Copyright Notice as Critical...
Paul Zukofsky, the son of poets Louis and Celia Zukofsky, has published an amazing Copyright Notice, in which he threatens to bring down a storm of litigation on anyone who dares to quote his parents...
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Liberia Accidentally Privatizes the Law, Owner Demands that the Government...
The Republic of Liberia’s laws have been, quite literally, lost. Due to civil war, the actual content of the country’s legislation were scattered and misplaced, and not even the Legislature has a...
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American States Purposefully Claim Copyright In Their Own Laws, Demand That...
I realized that my last post may have been overly unfair to Liberia, and may have implied that an entity claiming copyright in a state’s legislation was an unusual occurrence. It’s not. Numerous...
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Footnote of the Day: The Apple
72 See Sagan v. Apple Computer, Inc., 874 F. Supp. 1072 (C.D. Cal. 1994) (Apple had given a development project the internal name “Carl Sagan,” but when this fact was publicized Sagan demanded his name...
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Ursula K. Le Guin and the Tragedy of the Copyright Commons
Via TechDirt, Ursula K. Le Guin has resigned from the Authors Guild in protest of their decision to no longer categorically oppose settlement with Google. The Authors Guild was an original plaintiff in...
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Sad Keanu is Sad Because of Splash News’s Copyright Abuses
As internet memes go, Sad Keanu has been a relatively successful one. It surged onto the scene scarcely a month ago, on June 3rd, 2010, when the original poster put up the image with a caption that...
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Player Piano Roll Copying is Killing Music (And It’s Maybe Illegal)
The story of copyright law in the United States is, in many ways, one chapter after another about the entertainment industry’s hyperbolic overreaction to the latest developed technology. Today, the...
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Plants vs. Zombies vs. Michael Jackson’s Estate
Plants vs. Zombies, an addictive game that is premised upon just what the title would suggest, features a character called the “Dancing Zombie.” Although fairly obscure in that the face is just a...
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Bethesda Softworks, IP Troll
Mojang, the Swedish-based game developer behind MineCraft, has a new game coming out. It’s called Scrolls, and as far as I can figure out, it is the computer game hybrid of Magic the Gathering and...
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Kellogg’s Wrongfully Claims Ownership of All Depictions of Toucans Used in...
There are more than 40 species of toucan in the world, featuring a diversity of sizes, feather patterns, and beak colorations. But the Kellogg Company, maker of children’s breakfast cereal Froot Loops,...
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