Read a little. Learn a lot. • Tightly-written news, views and stuff • Follow us on Twitter • Be a Facebook Fan • Tumble us!

05 Nov 2009 09:34

tags

Music: Can they work it out? EMI sues some site selling the Beatles online

  • Some Web site you’ve never heard of, BlueBeat.com, starts selling Beatles songs for a quarter a piece based on a strange bastardization of copyright law. source
  • The rights holders, EMI, are just like, “nuh uh,” and sued the company. You know, EMI, if you put the Beatles catalogue on iTunes, it could be awesome. source
Posted by Ernie Smith • 0 Comments • Permalink

30 Oct 2009 10:25

tags

Biz: Corporate bureaucracy gets Pepsi in hot water over Aquafina

  • one letter the piece of information informing PepsiCo they were getting sued over their Aquafina bottled water; it got lost source
Posted by Ernie Smith • 0 Comments • Permalink

26 Oct 2009 06:50

tags

Biz: Found: Dead guy in a pool. A Bernie Madoff associate. Rich.

  • Jeffry Picower was described as Bernie’s greatest beneficiary. Remember when Ken Lay of Enron died at a convenient time? Looks like he has a new golfing buddy. Picower, one of the 400 wealthiest Americans, was found dead in his multimillion-dollar mansion in Florida. While authorities aren’t suspecting foul play or suicide (he was suffering from Parkinson’s Disease and had heart problems), it’s worth noting that he was in the midst of being sued for $7.2 billion regarding funds he supposedly controlled in the Madoff case. source
Posted by Ernie Smith • 0 Comments • Permalink

15 Oct 2009 22:06

tags

Culture: The Font Bureau is angry at NBC, quick-suing angry

  • $2 million lawsuit for using Font Bureau’s fonts without their OK source
Posted by Ernie Smith • 0 Comments • Permalink

10 Oct 2009 13:51

tags

Sports: Ryan Howard upsets 12-year-old girl. 12-year-old girl gets even.

  • 12-year-old Jennifer Valdivia caught slugger Ryan Howard’s record-setting 200th home run ball at a Phillies game in July. She offered to give the ball to Howard, with the promise he would show up. He never did. source
  • Feeling that the potentially-valuable ball was stolen from her. Valdivia and her mother got a lawyer, and this week, in the midst of the Phillies’ playoff run, threatened to sue. The ball was promptly returned. source
Posted by Ernie Smith • 0 Comments • Permalink

08 Oct 2009 20:54

tags

U.S.: America’s biggest prick … er, “toughest sheriff” investigated

  • He’s unconstitutionally acted to racially profile many persons in the community, persons who appear or are Latino.
  • ACLU lawyer Dan Pochoda • Describing why Maricopa County, Arizona Sheriff Joe Arpaio is a big jerk who they’re suing for racial profiling. He’s also under investigation by the Justice Department for violating civil rights. This is the guy who puts people (including Charles Barkley!) in jail wearing old-school prison stripes and pink underwear. • source
Posted by Ernie Smith • 0 Comments • Permalink

07 Oct 2009 10:37

tags

Offbeat: Erectile dysfunction lawsuit jokes hard for us to pass up

  • $9 million awarded to guy who kept it up for far too long source
Posted by Ernie Smith • 0 Comments • Permalink
 

05 Oct 2009 21:33

tags

Music: Did Guns & Roses rip off someone else’s electronic song?

  • 0:45 of soundscapes led to a lawsuit for Axl source
Posted by Ernie Smith • 0 Comments • Permalink

05 Oct 2009 10:10

tags

Tech: Comparing apples to apples: Woolworths vs. … um, Apple

A row of apples
  • Woolworths apple Looks like a worm has already gotten to it, based on its loopy shape. It’s got a firm kind of plastic, which tells you that the apple is genetically modified. Is the subject of a scary lawsuit from the Apple on the right. source
  • Woolworths apple Looks like a worm has already gotten to it, based on its loopy shape. It’s got a firm kind of plastic, which tells you that the apple is genetically modified. Is the subject of a scary lawsuit from the Apple on the right.
  • Bad apple Brown, a little shady on the inside. Makes you want to not eat it. We wanted to get a nice apple, but we were in a hurry this morning so we grabbed the very first apple off the tree we could find. Good enough for our purposes. source
  • Woolworths apple Looks like a worm has already gotten to it, based on its loopy shape. It’s got a firm kind of plastic, which tells you that the apple is genetically modified. Is the subject of a scary lawsuit from the Apple on the right.
  • Bad apple Brown, a little shady on the inside. Makes you want to not eat it. We wanted to get a nice apple, but we were in a hurry this morning so we grabbed the very first apple off the tree we could find. Good enough for our purposes.
  • Apple logo Not very organic. Made of chrome. Probably tough to bite into. Probably a few transistors in there somewhere. Was sued heavily by a much more musical Apple back in the day, and is now paying it forward. Good job. source
Posted by Ernie Smith • 2 Comments • Permalink

03 Oct 2009 11:25

tags

Tech: Amazon’s long Orwellian nightmare is finally over

  • There was a settlement in the “1984” lawsuit. Amazon, which deleted a bunch of George Orwell’s books off users’ Kindles, did not admit guilt in the $150,000 settlement (which largely goes to the lawyers and literacy charities; no word on what the plaintiffs got), but they did agree not to delete content off of users’ Kindles without their consent. Which is what everyone wanted in the first place. source
Posted by Ernie Smith • 0 Comments • Permalink
 
<< newer 
top tags
older >>