SXSW accused of using copyright, trademark claims to suppress criticism of its ties to the military weapons industry South by Southwest (SXSW), an annual conference and music festival in Austin, is facing backlash after it was revealed that the popular event has ties to arms manufacturers that supply weapons to Israel. When news about the […]
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SXSW accused of using copyright, trademark claims to suppress criticism of its ties to the military weapons industry
Trader Joe’s Sues Trader Joe’s United for Copyright Infringement
Trader Joe’s filed a lawsuit against its union on Thursday for copyright infringement, claiming that the union’s merchandise was too similar to the Trader Joe’s logo, and demanding that the union’s profits off that merchandise be given to Trader Joe’s. “For more than fifty years, Trader Joe’s has worked tirelessly to assure that the TRADER […]
Librarians Are Finding Thousands Of Books No Longer Protected By Copyright Law
Michael M. Santiago / Getty Images On January 1, 2023, a swath of books, films, and songs entered the public domain. The public domain is not a place—it refers to all the creative works not protected by an intellectual property law like copyright. Creative works may not have intellectual property protections for a number of […]
Meghan Markle Wins Remaining Copyright Claim From British Tabloid
LONDON (AP) — Meghan, the Duchess of Sussex, on Wednesday won her remaining copyright claim against a British tabloid publisher over the publication of a personal letter she wrote to her estranged father. Meghan, 39, had already won most of her claim for misuse of private information and copyright infringement against Associated Newspapers Limited, the publisher […]
Memes ‘Will Be Banned’ Under New EU Copyright Law, Warn Campaigners
Digital rights campaigners are warning that the law could lead to the destruction of the internet as we know it A new copyright law from the European Union would lead to the banning of memes on the internet, campaigners are warning. The EU Copyright Directive intends to protect the intellectual property rights of people who […]
Progressive Lunacy: PETA Claims Indonesian Monkey Owns ‘Selfie’ Copyright
21st Century Wire says… You know that western society is approaching its final hour when animal rights activists start advocating individual animals to be able to sue humans in courts. That’s exactly what has happened in the US. We can trace some of this line of thinking back to Cass Sunstein, the radical, liberal progressive […]
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Former Eaton Co. Deputy Who Resigned to Avoid Termination Now Employed as a Lenawee Co. Deputy
**The following post was written by Hanna Kareem and sent in via the CopBlock.org submission tab** One Eaton County deputy sheriff resigned, a member of the command staff received a written reprimand and a 28-year-old Grand Ledge man is negotiating a settlement with the county after his video showed an abusive and improper arrest during a […]
Hacker suspected in Anon raid on Boston hospital rescued at sea by Disney cruise ship, then arrested
Martin Gottesfeld and his family were rescued at sea, near Cuba, by a Disney cruise ship, then Gottesfeld was arrested by FBI agents dispatched from a Bahamian field office. Gottesfeld is suspected of participating in an Anonymous raid on Boston Children’s Hospital in 2014. The Anon raid, #OpJustina, targeted a hospital that […]
Analyzing kids’ hair may help predict risk of mental illness
Researchers from the University of Melbourne studied the cortisol levels of 70 nine-year-old children living in and around Melbourne. They recorded these levels from scalp hair to determine their total cortisol output over a period of months. Results from the study suggest hair cortisol concentrations (HCC) are “positively associated with the experience of lifetime trauma in […]
MH-17 Final Report: Who Shot Down The Plane?
MH-17 Final Report: Who Shot Down The Plane? – Freedoms Phoenix Wednesday, Oct 14, 2015 Freedom’s Phoenix Newspaper Contribute Bitcoin to Freedom’s Phoenix […]
Anonymous threatens Congress over copyright bill
Hackers from the group Anonymous released a video on the Web this week in which the collective calls out Congress for a controversial new bill that could put Internet users in prison for streaming videos online. Should S.978 be put on the books, streaming copyrighted material on the Web could land a person in jail […]