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The War on Sharing

jeudi 23 juillet 2015 à 02:00

The latest attack in the War on Sharing: a company chose people based on IP addresses to demand they agree to pay an amount to be named later.

Sharing should be legal.

US oil companies bilk poor countries

jeudi 23 juillet 2015 à 02:00

US oil companies pump oil in poor countries, then cheat the governments by not paying the royalties agreed on. The Dodd-Frank bill, which was supposed to make them come clean, is not being enforced.

Use of tissues from aborted fetuses

jeudi 23 juillet 2015 à 02:00

Planned Parenthood collects tissues from aborted fetuses, if the woman consents, to facilitate medical research that can save the lives of human beings. You need to be twisted to see a scandal in this.

An attempt to monopolize use of a color

jeudi 23 juillet 2015 à 02:00

We should not consider it "cute" when Pantone tries to monopolize use of a color through trademarks.

The article has a fundamental confusion: it confuses copyright law with trademark law by using the confusion term "intellectual property". Those two laws are totally different in what they do, and it is a mistake to generalize about the two.

Urgent: Protect red wolves

jeudi 23 juillet 2015 à 02:00

US citizens: call for proper protection of red wolves.