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Grooveshark and the Copyright Pirates

November 21st, 2011 · No Comments · Copyright, Internet, Popular

Just before the closing bell on Friday, Universal filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Grooveshark’s parent company, Escape Media Group

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Live Nude Copyrights

August 4th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Arcana, Copyright, Internet, Patent, Popular, Technology, Trade Secret, Trademark

For those of you who hate to subscribe to things but still have sufficient neurological juice left in your big big brains to remember short phrases, just open up your browser and type “Who Is Your Lawyer” in one of its myriad forms

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Copyright Blues

June 26th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Copyright, Popular

Has the material you have taken from the original work been transformed by adding new expression or meaning?

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Weird Al Goes Gaga

June 21st, 2011 · 2 Comments · Copyright, Popular

By now you have probably heard the news. Weird Al Yankovic came out with a splendiferous parody of Lady Gaga

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Tweet, Twit, What?

May 16th, 2011 · 3 Comments · Copyright, Internet, Popular

So I rounded up all the Kardashians, Kobe, Charlie Sheen, that Claudio Whatshisname from Barcelona, and together we had at least 50 million fans

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Jesters Do Oft Prove Prophets

April 25th, 2011 · No Comments · Copyright, Popular, Trademark

. . . making fun of them is almost as sacrosanct as the tipping of sacred cows in upper Boise State

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Another Cinderella Story

April 19th, 2011 · 2 Comments · Copyright, Trademark

What does Disney care if there’s another Cinderella dancing off in the forest somewhere?

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