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Maybe Patent Trolls Wouldn't Be So Hated If We Called Them Patent Elves
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While We're Making Suggestions To The AP, How About Not Disappearing The News?
In the wake of the ridiculous dustup between bloggers and the AP,
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Why YouTube Is Perfectly Legal (And Why Content Companies May Like That)
For all of Mark Cuban's talk about how YouTube (or whoever bought them, such as Google) would get sued for breaking the law, it's never been at all clear that that was true. As has been noted, it appears that the official legal process (notice and takedown) is working fine and that protects YouTube against most lawsuits. Tim Wu, over at Slate, goes through the details of why YouTube is protected against infringement lawsuits...


