Category Archives: Intellectual Property

Apple and Apple settle

February 5, 2007 – 6:03 pm

Apple Core have, it seems, settled with Apple Computers on their trademark dispute. From the outside it looks like Apple Computers got the upper hand: the mood music is that this unfortunate misunderstanding is all finally fully settled and everyone loves each just as they all did all along. Honest.

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Government free software

January 23, 2007 – 1:30 pm

Geeklawyer thinks that getting someone to pay big bucks twice for the same thing is a pretty neat trick; he’s only ever managed it once. When it’s the government doing it to him however he is a little more outraged. For example trying making him pay a second time to get access to statutes, or […]

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Pr0n drives successful technology

January 12, 2007 – 12:22 am

Apparently some people take a quarter of a century not to learn the lessons of history. Even when they are told: “there is a critical lesson from history for you in this. Learn it. You may fail if you don’t”.

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the Internet and paralegality

November 15, 2006 – 10:09 pm

Geeklawyer stumbled across a rather dull story about eBay and its rules of conduct in relation to merchants. In summary if you do business on eBay you agree to lots of stuff. The stuff includes VeRO which is designed to assert the rights of an intellectual property owner against intruders. Thus if someone on eBay […]

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Podcast Episode 4

November 4, 2006 – 4:06 am

To silence all of those of you complaining that Geeklawyer had got bored with his new podcasting toys - he hasn’t: here is episode 4.
Enjoy
BTW: about Skip James

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remixing

October 29, 2006 – 10:12 pm

Geeklawyer, hero of the digital underground and legend of the grotesquely exaggerated fee note, would not knowingly link to a copyright infringement. So much is obvious from a cursory assessment of his integrity. However Geeklawyer is a 60’s and 70’s nostalgia fan for whom one film stands out: Kubricks “Clockwork Orange” a glorious and artistic […]

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The world is saved: free music now available

August 29, 2006 – 9:13 pm

Geeklawyer stripped and ran naked through the streets of his city in celebration when the BBC began broadcasting the news today that Universal was to make music available for free.

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Google and France butt heads again

July 5, 2006 – 9:01 pm

Geeklawyer, having sold his soul to Google to get filthy lucre to finance his sleazy lifestyle, cannot pretend to be entirely non-partisan on the issue of the Adwords which finance him so, er, fulsomely.

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Whose frickin’ TV is it anyway?

April 19, 2006 – 9:53 pm

Philips are a Dutch company. Based in Eindhoven, near-ish Maastricht. There are lots of coffeeshops in Maastricht wherein a lot of self medication of the herbivorous variety occurs. Not too much wrong with that: ones lungs are ones own. Cannabis is however known to have some bad effects: memory loss, schizophrenia in certain people, memory […]

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Blue Peter badges

March 28, 2006 – 6:32 pm

Auntie seems to be getting her knickers in a twist about the sale of Blue Peter badges on eBay. These badges always seemed, to Geeklawyer, to be awarded to utter swots; but despite being teachers’ pets it seems to be entirely reasonable to let them dispose of their property as they will.

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