Legal
Someone using the nick “light” popped into the WMR chatroom the other day and asked if he could sue a forum owner for violating his copyright by refusing to remove a post containing his work. After playing a game of 50 questions to ascertain exactly what the issue is and is not, the answer to […]...
Copywriting and ContentLegalRSS
There’s a fun debate happening right this very second on WebmasterRadio.fm chat where people are arguing over whether or not the existence of an RSS feed is the same as implicitly granting permission to anyone and everyone to republish your work. Personally, I’m on the fence on the morality of the issue. It’s wrong and […]...
Legal
The Generic Names Supporting Organization’s final Whois Task Force report (something like 2 years in the making) recommends that ICANN restrict the amount of contact information publicly available via the whois service, and completely do away with technical and administrative contacts in favor of an “Operational Point of Contact”, or OPoC, in an effort to […]...
Legal
A visitor from wcsp.wipo.int (193.5.93.24) was logged once, starting at 12:30:02 AM on Monday, January 8, 2007. The initial browser was Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows NT 4.0). This visitor first arrived without a referring URL, and visited www.www.cshel.com/domains/2006/12/wipo-is-chewbacca/ In keeping with the Star Wars theme, I was going to say something about the “empire […]...
Legal
WIPO makes no sense. The vast majority of their decisions come down on the side of the complainant (generally also the trademark holder) — by vast majority I mean like 6000 cases decided in favor of and only 1000ish against. Yet, every now and then, they deny a complaint that is (a) pretty clearly a […]...
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