Reuters: News Corp sued by Brave Software, a Google search engine rival. “News Corp has been sued by Google search engine rival Brave Software, which seeks to forestall a lawsuit by Rupert Murdoch’s company for when readers are directed to copyrighted articles from the Wall Street Journal and New York Post.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/15/reuters-news-corp-sued-by-brave-software-a-google-search-engine-rival/

I hope countries around the world feel emboldened to repeal all the intellectual property laws that they adopted in hopes of trading with the US. None of it matters any more. It should be apparent now that US tariffs are getting applied RANDOMLY, to countries EVEN WHEN THEY COMPLY WITH ALL TRADE DEALS. I hope they do themselves a favor and free their societies from the shackles of US economic imperialism and innovate in a way that US companies cannot.

@pluralistic's speech addressed "the unique opportunities for disenshittification created by Trump's rapid unscheduled midair disassembly of the international free trade system. […] The rest of the world has an unprecedented opportunity to retaliate against American bullying by getting rid of these laws and producing the tools, devices and services that can protect every tech user (including Americans) from being ripped off by US Big Tech companies.
https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/26/ursula-franklin/

TIL: Whatever #ebooks or documents you put on a #Kindle, they're being indexed & uploaded automatically to the #Amazon server if the device has an internet connection. Just found out with an unpublished #manuscript that someone wanted to read on their Kindle and it ended up on the Amazon server, although it was put onto the Kindle manually via cable. Whatever you do with Amazon devices, you're adding everything to Amazon's data collection. #Enshittification #AuthorRights #IntellectualProperty

This week's net.wars, "Optioned", responds to the UK government's consultation on creating a copyright exception for AI companies to train language models: https://netwars.pelicancrossing.net/2025/02/28/optioned/ #Copyright #IntellectualProperty #UK

https://www.europesays.com/1860785/ Can sandals be art? Birkenstock says yes, but a German court says no #business #Cologne #courts #GeneralNews #germany #GovernmentAndPolitics #IntellectualProperty #News #Oddities #TrendingNews #world #WorldNews #WorldTopics

https://www.tmdn.org/tmview/#/tmview/results?page=1&pageSize=30&criteria=C&basicSearch=solarpunk

#TIL how many people registered #Solarpunk as a #trademark

We have at least 6 tradermarks for just the word! :D

Um, excuse me?

"DRM means that when you buy an eBook from your NOOK or from bn.com, you own that copy forever..."

That is not what DRM means. Period.

DRM is about imposing control, not bestowing ownership.

This is just blatant misinformation from Barnes & Noble.

#drm #liberty #freedom #digitalpublishing #publishing #copyright #intellectualproperty

https://help.barnesandnoble.com/hc/en-us/articles/5445106302107-DRM-for-NOOK-Content

Delighted to have contributed to Professor Jorge Contreras' epic collection, Sub-Patent Innovation Rights: Utility Models, Petty Patents and Innovation Patents Around the World

https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/subpatent-innovation-rights/2AE51C3B9F8C75A20E8CF42DC914C3E5 I wrote the chapter on 'Reinventing the Wheel: The Rise and Fall of the Australian Innovation Patent', and I was a co-author on the introduction. The Cambridge University Press collection is open access under a Creative Commons licence.

#patent #utilitymodels #pettypatents #innovationpatents #innovation #intellectualproperty #auslaw #auspol #openaccess (The cover looks like one of Wallace and Gromit's cracking contraptions).

https://youtu.be/Z_xoOrRlOIQ
Court Rules AGAINST AI Firm Using Copyrighted Material for Training

This isn't just a quick lesson in #IT & #FreeSoftware history, but an interesting #FMradio talk with the @fsf about #intellectualproperty, #privacy, and #censorship at #socialmedia.

It's #StuReid talking with #DaveBurstein, #MiriamBastian, and #ZoeKooyman at #WHCR ...
https://framatube.org/videos/watch/fbec7591-1c2f-4943-aded-00811efdb06c
about #YOUser_rights, levels of #Freedom, #FreeBeer, @GIMP, @inkscape, @Krita, @Blender and over 17K other solutions that might fit your needs.
https://directory.fsf.org/wiki/

Of course, our #Xerox 9700 #laserprinter #vector #graphics are made with #FOSS, #XML, #SVG, and #Inkscape on #GNU #Linux, not #Adobe #Illustrator. (3rd attempt to get tags right, sorry )

https://www.europesays.com/1828007/ South Korea’s AI Basic Act: Impacts on Law Firms #AIBasicAct #AiEthics #AIRegulation #AISafety #AsiaBusinessLawJournal #BaeKim&Lee #Conflicts #EUAIAct #GenerativeAI #HwanKyoungKo #IntellectualProperty #korea #Lee&Ko #LegalAdvice #LegalCompliance #LegalIssues #NationalAssembly #NorthKorea #RegulatoryFramework #RiskManagement #SouthKorea #Yoon&Yang #YoonSukYeol

Don’t Like Google AI? F**k It! DeepSeek Steals What OpenAI Rightfully Stole First! - HTTAY 118 Matt

#httay #google #ai #deepseek #openai #copyright #intellectualproperty #technology

https://youtu.be/kaA4tmlPoCA?si=WqPNXdOuQgWSSJWf

Yes, there can be progressive #trademark law.

"Black D.C. church vandalized by #ProudBoys awarded control of group’s name"
https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2025/02/04/dc-black-church-proud-boys-name-trademark-rights

TorrentFreak: Publishers Ramp Up Pressure vs. Anna’s Archive, Sci-Hub, Z-Library & Libgen. “The world’s major publishers claim that unlicensed libraries cast a permanent shadow over authors’ ability to make a living from their work. In common with the movie and movie industry counterparts, site-blocking is one of the weapons of choice, albeit against well-prepared opponents.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/02/04/torrentfreak-publishers-ramp-up-pressure-vs-annas-archive-sci-hub-z-library-libgen/

[20:00] Fake Apple headphones and luxury designer items seized in Dublin raids

Luxury goods, suspected counterfeit items and cash have been seized in Dublin today by gardaí targeting Intellectual Property (IP) crime.

https://www.independent.ie/irish-news/fake-apple-headphones-and-luxury-designer-items-seized-in-dublin-raids/a593576296.html

#Dublin #today #IntellectualProperty

https://www.europesays.com/1786742/ Deadline looms for EU’s WTO case against China alleging coercion of Lithuania #Beijing #bloomberg #Brussels #China #EconomicCoercion #eu #EuropeanCommission #GitanasNausėda #IntellectualProperty #Lietuva #lithuania #naujienos #Taiwan #TradeTariffs #trump #USTradeRepresentative #Vilnius #WTO