If the people shooting the video were black professors then the cops and the professors would have been invited to the south lawn of the white house for beer and chips. The unfortunate thing here is that the country has become so politicized that unless you are a member of some group with protected feces status (pun intended) you are considered fair game by the police. Note: check out the beating death of Kelly Thomas in Fullerton, California. The cops had a security camera video back at the station. The incident involved 5 cops taking down a 135 pound homeless man with 2 of them beating him to death. Only after a web site in Fullerton exposed the story were the cops placed on administrative leave and it was days before the cops owned up to having their own video. Didn't see anyone arresting them for filming cops just doing their duty.
I work in the intellectual property arena where every scam known to man and some that are not know are used by non-practicing entities to transfer wealth from producers to non-producers. One of the current scams is ?miss marking?. This occurs when a company ships a product with patent numbers on a label. If a patent number references a patent that is expired or a patent that is clearly not part of the product then the label has been miss marked. There are several cottage industries where people go out and take pictures of product label that contain patent number. They then research the patents and if they discover that the patent is expired or does not relate to the product, they assume that the company producing the product purposely miss marked the label to keep other companies and individual from competing in the market. This allows the researchers and attorneys to file suit for miss marking and people have been collecting settlements and awards for miss marking.
It would appear to little old me that miss marking of copyrights is the next intellectual property gold field that will be mined and considering the companies slapping copyright notices on images, such as AP and the Daily Mail, someone is going to file suite and most likely collect. Also considering that content owners like news agencies are quick to file suite when people exercise fair use, this might make them a little more aware of what it feels like to be the little guy in a litigation.
In reference to someone using BlockBuster online in Dec 2005, NetFlix filed their patent (7,024,381) on May 14, 2003. US patents are good for 20 years from the date of filing or 17 years from the date of granting, whichever is less. So, if BlockBuster did not offer their service prior to May 14, 2003 then the license that god gave NetFlix for owning queues stands until the patent is proved to be bad. The sad thing is that NetFlix can sue anyone for infringing if they are indeed infringing and can probably win. The question before a court will not be is the patent valid but only did the defendant infringed. The question of being valid would be settled in yet another suite that BlockBuster or someone else would bring against NetFlex. A particular patent troll (do a google search for Acacia) is right now suing thousand of companies for infringing because they claim that a web site is in reality a database (even though their patent does not mention the word web site) and they have a patent that says if you send software on a CD and the CD has a link that allows the user to click it and the software goes back to the parent site and obtains a second set of data that is displayed you have infringed. Crazy.
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If the people shooting the video were black professors then the cops and the professors would have been invited to the south lawn of the white house for beer and chips. The unfortunate thing here is that the country has become so politicized that unless you are a member of some group with protected feces status (pun intended) you are considered fair game by the police. Note: check out the beating death of Kelly Thomas in Fullerton, California. The cops had a security camera video back at the station. The incident involved 5 cops taking down a 135 pound homeless man with 2 of them beating him to death. Only after a web site in Fullerton exposed the story were the cops placed on administrative leave and it was days before the cops owned up to having their own video. Didn't see anyone arresting them for filming cops just doing their duty.
Missmarking of intellectual property
I work in the intellectual property arena where every scam known to man and some that are not know are used by non-practicing entities to transfer wealth from producers to non-producers. One of the current scams is ?miss marking?. This occurs when a company ships a product with patent numbers on a label. If a patent number references a patent that is expired or a patent that is clearly not part of the product then the label has been miss marked. There are several cottage industries where people go out and take pictures of product label that contain patent number. They then research the patents and if they discover that the patent is expired or does not relate to the product, they assume that the company producing the product purposely miss marked the label to keep other companies and individual from competing in the market. This allows the researchers and attorneys to file suit for miss marking and people have been collecting settlements and awards for miss marking.
It would appear to little old me that miss marking of copyrights is the next intellectual property gold field that will be mined and considering the companies slapping copyright notices on images, such as AP and the Daily Mail, someone is going to file suite and most likely collect. Also considering that content owners like news agencies are quick to file suite when people exercise fair use, this might make them a little more aware of what it feels like to be the little guy in a litigation.
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In reference to someone using BlockBuster online in Dec 2005, NetFlix filed their patent (7,024,381) on May 14, 2003. US patents are good for 20 years from the date of filing or 17 years from the date of granting, whichever is less. So, if BlockBuster did not offer their service prior to May 14, 2003 then the license that god gave NetFlix for owning queues stands until the patent is proved to be bad. The sad thing is that NetFlix can sue anyone for infringing if they are indeed infringing and can probably win. The question before a court will not be is the patent valid but only did the defendant infringed. The question of being valid would be settled in yet another suite that BlockBuster or someone else would bring against NetFlex. A particular patent troll (do a google search for Acacia) is right now suing thousand of companies for infringing because they claim that a web site is in reality a database (even though their patent does not mention the word web site) and they have a patent that says if you send software on a CD and the CD has a link that allows the user to click it and the software goes back to the parent site and obtains a second set of data that is displayed you have infringed. Crazy.