UK Appeals Court Overturns Mr. Mod Chips Conviction
Friday, June 13th, 2008 Posted in Crime, Intellectual Property, News | 1 Comment »A UK Appeals Court overturned the conviction of Neil Higgs, also known as Mr. Mod Chips, on Wednesday. Higgs was initially found guilty of selling thousands of mod chips -- devices that allow users to play imported and pirated ...
Canadian Copyright Amendment Faces Further Delays
Thursday, May 15th, 2008 Posted in Intellectual Property, Legislation, News, Politics | No Comments »A Canadian bill designed to amended and strengthen Canada's existing Copyright Act has met further delays. The bill, originally placed on the House of Commons order paper in December, is said to closely mimic the United State's copyright scheme ...
Nintendo Ordered to Pay $21 Million for Patent Infringement
Thursday, May 15th, 2008 Posted in Intellectual Property, Microsoft, News, Nintendo, Patent Infringement, Settlement | No Comments »Yahoo reports that Nintendo of America has recently been ordered to pay $21 million in damages to developer Anascape for patent infringement. The award is the result of a federal jury verdict in a suit filed by Anascape in 2006. ...
Blizzard Turns to Copyright to Fight Cheaters
Thursday, May 8th, 2008 Posted in Intellectual Property, MMORPGs, News | No Comments »In a case that has been described as "pitting distasteful gaming behavior against an unsavory over-assertion of copyrights," Blizzard Entertainment and Vivendi SA seek damages against software company MDY Industries for alleged tortious interference with contract and secondary copyright infringement. ...
San Diego GOP Chairman: Video Game Pirate?
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 Posted in Crime, Hilarious, Intellectual Property, News, Politics, Stupid Politics | 5 Comments »According to a lengthy article posted at The Raw Story, San Diego Republican Chairman and head of the state party's budget committee Tony Krvaric is co-founder of Fairlight, one of the world's largest and oldest software cracking rings. Krvaric, ...
Square Enix Cuts Back on Sword Replicas
Wednesday, February 13th, 2008 Posted in Intellectual Property, New Complaint, Square Enix | No Comments »Oh, poor cosplayers and social outcasts of the world! RPG mega-producer Square Enix recently filed suit in a United States District Court against several replica sword wholesalers for infringing on a number of Square Enix-held IPs. The lawsuit alleges that ...
8th Circuit Victory for Fantasy Sports Leagues
Wednesday, October 17th, 2007 Posted in Appeals, Fantasy Sports, Intellectual Property | No Comments »The 8th Circuit Court of Appeals recently upheld a 2006 decision that allowed fantasy baseball leagues to use Major League Baseball ("MLB") player names and statistics without paying a licensing fee to the MLB or MLB Players Association. The ...
Epic countersues Silicon Knights, SK fears “Cole Train” involvement
Thursday, August 9th, 2007 Posted in Epic Games, Intellectual Property, Silicon Knights | 2 Comments »We previously reported Silicon Knight's lawsuit against Epic which basically alleged that Epic was committing industry sabotage. Well, Epic recently responded to Silicon Knight's complaint with a big, fat motion to dismiss and a bigger, fatter countersuit alleging ...
It’s official! Post goes ‘postal’ on Boll
Wednesday, August 1st, 2007 Posted in Intellectual Property, New Complaint, Uwe Boll | No Comments »We previously reported that the New York Post threatened Uwe Boll with legal action if he did not remove his "New York Postal" website. While Boll did not comply with the Post's requests, his hosting provider was more than ...
New York Postal?
Wednesday, July 18th, 2007 Posted in Intellectual Property, Uwe Boll | 1 Comment »Uwe Boll, infamous video game movie director and German tax shelter, better get his boxing gloves back out because the New York Post has his number--which, according to Rotten Tomatoes, is around 4% or less. Boll recently received a letter from ...
