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DJ Dougernaut (douglasawh)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Sep-2012 15:26:15 EDT 
DJ Dougernaut
I have to move my car every 48 hours according to city ordinance. Wow. Pollute much? -
DJ Dougernaut (douglasawh)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Sep-2012 12:30:14 EDT
DJ Dougernaut
Lots of blowhards here - Wikileaks: Frontier Journalism or Underminer of Liberty and Security? 5-11-11 - http://www.fed-soc.org/audiolib/wikileaks-5-11-11.mp3 -
DJ Dougernaut (douglasawh)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Sep-2012 12:02:10 EDT
DJ Dougernaut
no case law is affected in as much as it doesn't apply to 501(c)(3)s -
DJ Dougernaut (douglasawh)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Sep-2012 12:01:05 EDT
DJ Dougernaut
no, inducement is included. Under my proposal there is ****no way**** to sue a 501(c)(3) under Title 35 of the US code. -
DJ Dougernaut (douglasawh)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Sep-2012 11:55:24 EDT
DJ Dougernaut
if your question is, "would Limelight still be able to be sued?", then the answer is yes, because they are not a 501(c)(3) charity. -
DJ Dougernaut (douglasawh)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Sep-2012 11:54:19 EDT
DJ Dougernaut
I still don't understand what this has to do with two publicly traded companies though, which is what your initial question was about. I assumed it had something to do with MIT, even though MIT was a joint *plaintiff*, not a joint defendant. -
DJ Dougernaut (douglasawh)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Sep-2012 11:50:59 EDT
DJ Dougernaut
I'm not sure how else to put this. Under my proposal a 501(c)(3) will be except from being sued for patent infringement. To use your words, if a 501(c)(3) uses a claimed invention, they will not be liable because they are except from liability. zero, nadda, zilch, nil, nothing. -
DJ Dougernaut (douglasawh)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Sep-2012 10:59:21 EDT
DJ Dougernaut
you could probably do it without a copyright assignment, but personally, those would be waters I would not want to tread. (yeah, I know I said this was fantasy land, so we could take care of any contractual issues in the amendment of the statute. I just want to make it simple) -
DJ Dougernaut (douglasawh)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Sep-2012 10:57:29 EDT
DJ Dougernaut
a side-effect of this is that I think it makes copyright assignment to the project a very, very, very good idea. You'd probably need some sort of "patentable subject matter" assignment as well, but I don't think that would be too hard. -
DJ Dougernaut (douglasawh)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Sep-2012 10:54:55 EDT
DJ Dougernaut
this is entirely fantasy land, so we can do whatever we want. :) -
DJ Dougernaut (douglasawh)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Sep-2012 10:53:51 EDT
DJ Dougernaut
as far as I'm concerned 0 = 0. 501(c)(3)s are exempt. there is zero possibility for a 501(c)(3) to infringe. -
DJ Dougernaut (douglasawh)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Sep-2012 10:51:17 EDT
DJ Dougernaut
I think what you would have to do is say that given the public good nature of a 501(c)(3), then all patents that a 501(c)(3) gets are dedicated to the public domain. While this could pose some funding problems, the money institutions save on patent litigation would help. -
DJ Dougernaut (douglasawh)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Sep-2012 10:47:04 EDT
DJ Dougernaut
how would it? Akamai and Limelight are both publicly traded companies. Now, something I didn't contemplate was would that bar 501(c)(3)s from bringing suits. That seems only fair to me. So if MIT wanted to continue to patent for the prestige then they could, just couldn't sue. -
DJ Dougernaut (douglasawh)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Sep-2012 10:28:36 EDT
DJ Dougernaut
today in class I proposed an exception to patent infringement for 501(c)(3)s (specifically in relation to healthcare). This was met with reasonable approval. Such an exemption would shield FSF and others, but not Linux Foundation and certainly not Red Hat. Thoughts? -
DJ Dougernaut (douglasawh)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Sep-2012 10:09:15 EDT
DJ Dougernaut
love the title: http://www.theverge.com/2012/9/3/3289053/hype-emitting-diodes-dreaming-of-an-oled-tv-future-video -
DJ Dougernaut (douglasawh)'s status on Tuesday, 04-Sep-2012 07:34:17 EDT
DJ Dougernaut
not simple? Only if you don't take wills and contracts as written. http://www.abajournal.com/magazine/article/the_law_of_the_land -
DJ Dougernaut (douglasawh)'s status on Monday, 03-Sep-2012 20:38:55 EDT
DJ Dougernaut
Ethics classes already existed before WorldCom. However, that did prompt more disclosure exceptions in the ABA model rules. I suppose it's conceivable they could have started after WorldCom, but I think Watergate much bigger deal (for probably obvious reasons) -
lnxwalt280 (lnxwalt280)'s status on Monday, 03-Sep-2012 20:25:29 EDT 
lnxwalt280
@douglasawh Yeah, we had an ethics segment in each biz class. Also boring. If you get to be 18-35 and have not learned to behave ethically, it is too late. -
DJ Dougernaut (douglasawh)'s status on Monday, 03-Sep-2012 20:25:21 EDT
DJ Dougernaut
if not for those damn Watergate idiots, I might be reading something interesting right now. -
DJ Dougernaut (douglasawh)'s status on Monday, 03-Sep-2012 20:01:26 EDT
DJ Dougernaut
I understand why we take an ethics course, but wow, is it boring.
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