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112807 IP News

By Sean Fowler

A brief break between briefs:

? Knievel and Kanye have worked out a settlement about that whole jumping the canyon misunderstanding. -- Yahoo! News
? Tehranian speaks of Copyright Armageddon. The entire article takes a Flying Spaghetti Monster approach to the current wisdom of copyright law. It's a great read altogether, but this part about a Captain Caveman tattoo particularly tickled me: "Sporting the tattoo, John has become the infringing work. At best, therefore, he will have to undergo court-mandated laser tattoo removal. At worst, he faces imminent 'destruction.'" A worthy read at -- TurnerGreen.com
? Canada wants a DMCA of its own? Oh, Canada!!?? -- The Globe and Mail
? University research for big business is the hot item these days, but Scott Jaschik thinks that universities should give up on retaining the resulting IP. -- Inside Higher Ed
? Turns out the public does know the difference between often gross and unwanted email that everyone regrets experiencing and the mass-produced-and-processed-mixed-meat-food-product of the same name. -- CNNMoney
? Pharmaceutical companies and Sweden may not be happy, but the WHO and Doctors Without Borders are reporting progress in convincing countries to start thinking about a treaty to address the accessibility of developing medical research -- EPHA
? SCOTUS has refused to address a circuit court decision finding that M2 Software was not entitled to damages from M2, the MTV second channel owned by Viacom, since the infringement was not shown to be intentional. -- The Associated Press via the Houston Chronicle

Full post as published by Cogito Ergo Teneo; an intellectual property blawg on November 28, 2007 (boomark / email).