All posts tagged ‘lawsuit’
by Mike Masnick, Blogger, TechDirt
Here’s a question for you: Can someone own the copyright on the history of a musical group? We may find out as a lawsuit moves forward concerning the “ownership” of the story of a famous band. As you may know, there’s been a popular musical called “Jersey Boys” about the history of the musical group The Four Seasons–and now there’s the inevitable argument over who gets to earn money from that musical.
The person suing is the widow of a lawyer/writer, Rex Woodard, and she’s suing all of the band members, with a specific focus on Thomas Gatano DeVito. Woodard’s husband knew the members of The Four Seasons and co-wrote a manuscript biography of DeVito.
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by Matt Marshall, Blogger, VentureBeat
TheFunded, a site that lets entrepreneurs rate and comment about venture capitalists, has drawn a lot of attention from folks eager to learn salacious gossip about bad VCs.
Over recent months, though, there’s been an odd development: Certain posts by entrepreneurs critical of VCs are being quietly removed and then replaced with more favorable comments. On its face, it looks like a whitewash. Or maybe it’s not so troubling. You decide.
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by Ryan Paul, Contributor, Ars Technica
A class-action lawsuit has been launched against domain registrar Network Solutions and ICANN over the controversial practice of domain tasting. The suit was initiated on behalf of Chris McElroy, a search-engine optimization specialist who goes by the handle NameCritic. McElroy has long been an extremely vocal critic of ICANN and is a regular participant on the organization’s mailing lists.
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by Mike Masnick, Blogger, Techdirt
When Steve Jobs first announced the iPhone a little over a year ago, he played up the fact that Apple had filed approximately 200 patents on some of the technologies included in the phone. This seemed a bit surprising because so many of the technologies found in the iPhone were already found elsewhere–just not in as pretty a package. Also, despite all those patent claims, it hasn’t stopped a whole bunch of companies from filing patent-infringement lawsuits against Apple for technologies found in the iPhone.
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