Your Doctor’s Contract Might Claim Copyright on your Reviews This is a bizarre case taking copyright law and take-down notices to an extreme. According to this article, lawyers representing doctors have found in copyright law a way to discourage bad reviews. By assigning copyright to your doctor on all reviews about his services, the medical professional’s lawyers could then send a takedown notice if [...] Read More
Copyright Infringement Case of the Day: SkyNews ignores licensing restrictions from the public Back in 2009, while we were working on building Myows Online Copyright App, I remember reading about Sky News using a Twitpic picture by Joe Neale without permission or licensing and the debate that followed. In Today’s case, the perpetrator is again SkyNews, this time using a 1 minute Youtube video without seeking permission and [...] Read More
Copyright Infringement Case of the Day: Curebit Steals Design and Code from 37signals Unbelievable case today, and shocking response from the copyright perpetrators, Curebit, a startup that recently received 1.2M$ in funding and couldn’t be bothered to pay the few thousand dollars it would cost to design and code their own landing page. Poor form Curebit. Angered by the blatant design and code copyright infringement, David Heinemeier Hansson, [...] Read More
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