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You Can’t Sue Disney Sadly, unless you have money to burn, even if you can prove © infringement they will bury you with an army of lawyers. They have a history of fighting claims (when they were clearly at fault) for years just to discourage any one from coming after them.  katiewoodger: DISNEY HAVE STOLEN MY ARTWORK I don’t know what to do. I am so upset. Can anyone help me? My painting was created back in 2010, (see it HERE) and since then so many people have expressed their love for it, not just on tumblr, but in many places. At least 9 people had it tattooed on their bodies. It’s one of my favourite images I created at University and I was proud of it in many ways. Disney have used it on a cosmetics bag HERE (look at the back)and they have produced a Tshirt HERE with a really similar design clearly modeled from my painting I’m so mad because I have no chance at getting Disney to do anything about it. I had so much respect for the company and now I am just SO upset and disappointed. Any help, advice or signal boosting would be amazing. And thank you so much to the kind person who messaged me about this.

You Can’t Sue Disney

Sadly, unless you have money to burn, even if you can prove © infringement they will bury you with an army of lawyers. They have a history of fighting claims (when they were clearly at fault) for years just to discourage any one from coming after them. 

katiewoodger:

DISNEY HAVE STOLEN MY ARTWORK

I don’t know what to do. I am so upset. Can anyone help me?

My painting was created back in 2010, (see it HERE) and since then so many people have expressed their love for it, not just on tumblr, but in many places. At least 9 people had it tattooed on their bodies. It’s one of my favourite images I created at University and I was proud of it in many ways.

Disney have used it on a cosmetics bag HERE (look at the back)
and they have produced a Tshirt HERE with a really similar design clearly modeled from my painting

I’m so mad because I have no chance at getting Disney to do anything about it. I had so much respect for the company and now I am just SO upset and disappointed.

Any help, advice or signal boosting would be amazing. And thank you so much to the kind person who messaged me about this.

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Val Kilmer reprises his role as Batman…poor Val

Giant God Warrior Appears In Tokyo

Giant God Warriors Appear in Tokyo ( Kyoshinhei Tokyo ni Arawaru ) is a live action movie from Studio Ghibl by Director Higuchi Shinji, Miyazaki has worked on the design of the  beast.

futurescope:

Interspecies telepathy: human thoughts make rat move

Snip from NewScientist:

Telepathic control of another person’s body is a small step closer. By linking the technologies of two brain/computer interfaces, human volunteers were able to trigger movement in a rat’s tail using their minds. Recently, researchers linked the brains of two rats so that they worked together to accomplish a task. Such techniques are unlikely to be applied to humans any time soon because they require invasive surgery to implant electrodes into the brain.

Now Seung-Schik Yoo of Harvard Medical School in Boston and colleagues have created a system that connects a human to a rat via a computer, without the need for the human or the rat to have brain implants. The human volunteers wore electrode caps that monitored their brain activity using electroencephalography (EEG). Meanwhile, an anaesthetised rat was hooked up to a device that made the creature’s neurons fire whenever it delivered an ultrasonic pulse to the rat’s motor cortex.

Yoo says it should be possible for two humans to use a similar system in the foreseeable future. Such a system could, for instance, be used to help a paralysed person relearn to use their limbs by having their therapist initially move them with their mind.

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lawcommentator: #Luke1L #comic #lawschool #lawschoolproblems #onlyinlawschool #barreview

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#Luke1L #comic #lawschool #lawschoolproblems #onlyinlawschool #barreview

The Future of the Internet and IP Law

lichka:

The Justice Department’s massive copyright case against the file-sharing website Megaupload.com had the Internet world hopping this week. But it also got lawyers talking, about the scope of a criminal investigation that spanned eight countries and the hard-nosed tactics that the government deployed.

Prosecutors and FBI agents who built the case against Megaupload call it an international crime ring — a racketeering enterprise, like the mob or a drug gang, that made $175 million from pirated movies and music since 2005 and cost copyright holders nearly half a billion dollars more…

read more at npr.org

emergentfutures: Ban social media as a distraction? No, it boosts productivity Far from diverting employees from their jobs, social media and smartphones actually make staff more productive - and employers should learn to deal with that new reality. Access to social networks via mobile devices gives staff a “virtual co-presence” with direct benefits for the business in which they work, according to a new study. Full Story: TechRepublic

emergentfutures:

Ban social media as a distraction? No, it boosts productivity

Far from diverting employees from their jobs, social media and smartphones actually make staff more productive - and employers should learn to deal with that new reality.

Access to social networks via mobile devices gives staff a “virtual co-presence” with direct benefits for the business in which they work, according to a new study.

Full Story: TechRepublic

ABA-IPL Law Student Action Group (LSAG): Bios of Our #IPLSpring Law Student Reporters

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From the unprecedented number of applications received last month, the ABA-IPL’s Law Student Action Group (LSAG) has selected 13 IP and social media savvy law students to participate in the 3rd Annual Law Student Reporters Program. As participants in the Program, the law students will attend,…

Congrats to Joseph, the Law Commentator, and Southwestern Law, as being the only west coast reps. I’m excited to see what comes out of the ABA IP Law Conference. 

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