Microsoft's decision to close down Tango Gameworks, Arkane Austin and other game studios is largely motivated by the desire to keep IPs, and ensuring the studios can't work for Microsoft's competition ~games Article 740 words 29 votes
In US lawsuit, ex-Amazon AI exec claims she was asked to ignore IP law ~tech amazon Article 1499 words 25 votes
Lessons learned from the Google trade secret theft indictment ~tech google security Article 1071 words 7 votes
Lego requests California police department stop using their toy heads to cover suspect mugshots on social media ~tech social media Article 267 words 40 votes
Harbor Freight cannot easily develop their own flesh detection table saw ~life.home_improvement Article 1463 words 28 votes
Robots.txt governed the behavior of web crawlers for over thirty years; AI vendors are ignoring it or proliferating too fast to block ~tech internet Article 3069 words, published Feb 14 2024 41 votes
CASETiFY copied my dbrand teardown skins and we're suing them ~tech Video 13:45, published Nov 23 2023 28 votes
Is cinema dying? And if so, who is responsible? – A murder mystery ~movies Video 1:31:11, published Oct 3 2023 23 votes
Mattel execs on next Hollywood moves: ‘Barney,’ ‘Polly Pocket’ and ‘Barbie’ sequels ~movies Article 1309 words 24 votes
Intellectual property attorney claims that more than 900 companies have trademarked X, Musk's company will face lawsuits ~tech social media Article 451 words 18 votes
Anger from voice actors as NSFW mods use AI deepfakes to replicate their voices ~games Article 617 words 59 votes
Streaming sites urged to stop AI from cloning pop stars ~tech apple.music Article 663 words, published Apr 12 2023 7 votes
Saami Council has demanded Square Enix remove the Far Northern Attire from Final Fantasy XIV due to the use of cultural property and an infringement of rights ~games Article 369 words 10 votes
Iceland Foods has lost its ongoing legal battle with the country Iceland over the frozen food retailer's trademark name after the EUIPO dismissed its appeal ~finance business Link 7 votes
Kanye West's worst nightmare is coming true — Adidas plans to sell Yeezys under new branding ~design fashion Article 535 words 4 votes
The Talented Mr. Bernardini - A young Italian is accused of pulling off the book world’s most perplexing crime. Who is he? ~books Article 3158 words, published Feb 4 2022 7 votes
The McDonald’s ice cream machine hacking saga has a new twist ~tech Article 1699 words, published Nov 23 2021 22 votes
Uffizi is suing Pornhub after it turns masterpieces into live porn ~arts art Article 800 words 10 votes
Amazon asked Apple to remove an app that spots fake reviews, and Apple agreed ~tech amazon security apple.app store Article 658 words 19 votes
Janne Poranen: ‘If you have an invention, don't sell your technology too early to anyone’ ~finance business Article 595 words 4 votes
The EU Intellectual Property Office rules against Banksy in his trademark fight with a greeting card company, citing his own statement that ‘Copyright is for losers’ and his anonymity ~arts Article 682 words 13 votes
Lego wins design patent case against German company at EU court – critics say the firm is using its heft to crush competition ~finance business Article 477 words, published Mar 1 2021 6 votes
Anthony Levandowski sentenced to eighteen months in prison for stealing self-driving trade secrets from Google before joining Uber ~transport Article 403 words 13 votes
America’s deadly obsession with intellectual property: Privatizing life-saving technology like vaccines and clean energy is bad both for the coronavirus and the climate crisis ~tech Article 1408 words 9 votes
Iceland wins EU trademark battle against United Kingdom-based supermarket chain ~finance business Article 585 words, published Apr 12 2019 7 votes
Volunteers 3D-print unobtainable $11,000 valve for $1 to keep Covid-19 patients alive; original manufacturer threatens to sue ~health Article 508 words 16 votes
Anthony Levandowski, former head of Uber's self-driving unit, files for bankruptcy after a court confirms he would have to pay Google $179 million ~transport Article 304 words 7 votes
Don't buy new, fix the old: The repair business is booming ~enviro recycling Article 962 words 20 votes
Re-evaluating the DMCA twenty-two years later: Let’s think of the users ~tech internet Article 1257 words 13 votes
Building China's Comac C919 airplane involved a lot of hacking, report says ~transport Article 1217 words 5 votes
A native plant is exposing the clash between traditional knowledge and Western conventions ~finance business Article 2040 words 8 votes
Biohackers are pirating a cheap version of a million-dollar gene therapy ~health Article 1475 words, published Aug 30 2019 7 votes
Anthony Levandowski, former Uber self-driving car executive, indicted for alleged theft of trade secrets from Google ~transport Article 426 words 9 votes
The absurdities of 'franchise fatigue' and 'sequelitis' (or, what is happening to the box office?!) ~movies Article 3534 words 6 votes