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Extrajudicial tribunals The similarities are striking. The alerts system, like the Originators' Guild's enforcement system, is an effort to fight unauthorized copying of incumbents' creative works. The Supreme Court described the Originators' Guild as an "extra-governmental agency" that "provides extrajudicial tribunals for determination and punishment of violations, and thus trenches upon the power of the national legislature." The same could be said of the review process envisioned by the Copyright Alerts system. … [Read more...] about What the 1930s fashion industry tells us about Big Content’s “six strikes” plan

Sevier is seeking damages and injunctive relief against Apple because it makes products that can display porn ("or as the rest of us call it, the Internet," AboveTheLaw notes). So Sevier legally requests that Apple enable a porn-filtering "safe mode" by default on its devices. His complaint notes that "If Apple agrees to sell its devices 'on safe mode' before trial, the Plaintiff will terminate this litigation." … [Read more...] about Man views porn using Safari, files lawsuit against Apple

A 2014 inspection report by Beirut port authorities, seen by the Financial Times, labels the chemical as “explosives” and said that 1,950 of the 2,750 one-tonne bags filled with the chemical were “torn." Photos of the stockpile taken the following year, also seen by the FT, show the huge sacks appearing to be stacked haphazardly on top of each other and ammonium nitrate spilling from large rips in the industrial bags. … [Read more...] about Ripped chemical bags added to risk of Beirut blast

Court documents unsealed this week reveal who's behind FlatWorld, and it's anything but typical. FlatWorld is partly owned by the named inventor on the patents, a Philadelphia design professor named Slavko Milekic. But 35 percent of the company has been quietly controlled by an attorney at one of Apple's own go-to law firms, Morgan, Lewis & Bockius. E-mail logs show that the attorney, John McAleese, worked together with his wife and began planning a wide-ranging patent attack against Apple's touch-screen products in January 2007—just days after the iPhone was revealed to the world. … [Read more...] about Apple, betrayed by its own law firm

Today, Epic Games took the unfortunate step of violating the App Store guidelines that are applied equally to every developer and designed to keep the store safe for our users. As a result their Fortnite app has been removed from the store. Epic enabled a feature in its app which was not reviewed or approved by Apple, and they did so with the express intent of violating the App Store guidelines regarding in-app payments that apply to every developer who sells digital goods or services.  … [Read more...] about Epic lawsuit vs. Apple’s 30% App Store cut aims for leverage, pressure, and a better deal