…they produce ‘value’, not where they sell. Let’s take a company like Louis Vuitton as an example. The majority of its profit comes from its intellectual property (i.e. its brand…

James Waterworth · November 21, 2014

…against Google, is that Google is updating its “search engine” to incorporate tools and features designed to answer users’ questions in different ways. When you break down the complaints against…

Daniel O'Connor · June 8, 2012

…questions, such as whether to account for transient displays or performances the same as downloads. Disentangling Economic Loss from Transfers Several of these factors also affect the discussion from last…

Matt Schruers · August 2, 2013

…sue you for some absurd amount of money.” I think partly because the barn door is open and the horse is gone. I think they realize that this is free…

Sarah Lai Stirland · June 10, 2014

…Federal Trade Commission on potential trade rules to address possible harms to consumers and competition stemming from commercial data privacy and security practices. Lastly, while the state attorney general position…

Alvaro Marañon and Ethan Wham · December 12, 2022

…open source electronics components. For any component, SparkFun expects to have three months exclusivity before the component is copied by a competitor. Thereafter, SparkFun competes by improving the component and…

Jonathan Band · August 2, 2013

…commitments which are fully transparent to the public. Small- and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), which constituted 60% of Safe Harbour companies, particularly benefitted from the framework.[3] Free mechanisms for consumer complaints…

Christian Borggreen · January 12, 2016

…this process, the DOJ sought two rounds [1] [2] of public comments and received over 370 comments combined. The music consent decrees have established a market that is a quasi-regulated…

Matthew Lane · May 24, 2018

On Wednesday, NPR ran a story on composer Michael Giacchino that highlights the importance of fair use copying to the creative process. Giacchino won an Oscar in 2010 for his…

Jonathan Band · June 12, 2015

…that conference organizers and attendees could always download the latest version at the time and place of their choosing: a typical use case for a cloud file storage solution. I…

Matt Schruers · June 18, 2012