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The Righthaven model as seen by a pro-IP-monetization lawyer (gametimeip.com)
1 point by grellas on May 9, 2011 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment


Hilarious. About flaws in Righthaven's court filings: I glossed over much of this criticism because these represent errors in execution, which can fowl up even the most well thought-out business models.

Proofread much? The idiom is "foul up". A "fowl up" is when ducks are in the air.

Second, this is the kind of worthless piffle that makes lawyers into bad jokes. It's based exclusively on the "how many angels can dance on the head of pin" reasoning that's divorced from ethics, morality or any empirical concern. It's all law, all the time. Fortunately, not all of morality is contained within the law.

Third: here's an "IP" lawyer being imprecise about "IP". He/she/it/them muddle copyright, patent, trademark and trade secret into a giant, ill-defined mess called "intellectual property". Only a lawyer could love "IP" because nobody else can afford to devote enough time to teasing out the meaning of the different usages of the phrase "IP".




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