Two of the most astute IP scholars I know also happen to be two of the best legal writers I know, and also happen to work at one of the worst IP abusers in the country: Jennifer Jenkins and @publicdomain, of @DukeU, the nation's leading academic trademark abuser.
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Duke has a universal reputation for being a serious trademark abuser, but Jenkins and Boyle wanted to empirically investigate that reputation. The result is "Mark of the Devil: The University as Brand Bully," forthcoming in Fordham IPLJ.
To do empirical work, you have to find stuff to count. The problem is that questions like "who is the biggest bully?" are stubbornly qualitative, and quantizing Duke's conduct risks incinerating the most important elements in the quest for some kind of quantitative residue.
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Sennett Devermont is a police accountability activist whose streams police encounters to his Instagram followers. When he visited the @BeverlyHillsPD last Fri to obtain a form, BHPD Sergeant Billy Fair began blasting music from of his phone.
Fair was following the example of other BHPD officers who have made a habit of playing copyrighted music during encounters with the public, apparently to trigger automated copyright takedowns on the major social media platforms.
As @dexdigi writes for @VICENews, this form of copyfraud has a failsafe: if the filter doesn't block the livestream, the archived footage might be easily removed through copyright complaints.
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Inside: Snowden's young adult memoir; Favicons as undeletable tracking beacons; The ECB should forgive the debt it owes itself; Fleet Street calls out schtum Tories; and more!
Tonight, I'm helping Ed Snowden launch the young readers' version of his spectacular memoir "Permanent Record." Join us for a livestream event with Copperfield Books on Feb mamot.fr/@pluralistic/1… at 19h Pacific.