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I used to litigate copyright cases. While your comment is technically true, for 98% of cases, you will need the copyright registration for any amount of meaningful copyright protec…

If you put a lot of effort into a project and don't want it stolen, please REGISTER THE COPYRIGHT. 0. Register the copyright within 3 months after you publish the project. 1. Regis…

noooo! this isn't a software problem. Just hook the fan up to the bicycle wheels! Pedal faster, fan goes faster. Product already exists (though somewhat expensive at $200) http://w…

but can PG write again using only the ten hundred most common words? https://xkcd.com/1133/

yeah, it looks like they are still under traditional copyright. It's just that the purchase price is $0.00. Free as in beer. Still, that's pretty cool!

I think it's 'malpractice' risk. Like, if a lawyer give bad legal advice on a forum, and someone reads it and follows it and then loses a ton of money because of it, and then the r…

I think the answer is this: the law requires the exact document - a shareholder consent. It's binary. Either you have the consent or your don't. The judges don't want to be bothere…

This x 10 for legal documents. Simplify them please.

Champerty! Champerty is the (largely defunct) rule against funding someone else's lawsuit. I always thought that was a funny word. Champerty. But TIL that it comes from the fact th…

Yeah! right? But if I understand your project correctly, it also has every other possible continuation to that stanza in it somewhere?

These infinity monkeys wrote shakespeare: preconizer arrythmically to be or not to be that is the question whether it is nobler in the mind to suffer the slings and arrows of outra…

Did you ever miss an 83(b) filing? Did it hurt your tax bill? Your legal bills? I'd like to collect these stories (anonymized if you prefer) and use them to encourage future founde…

For a great collection of weird old patents, check out https://www.flickr.com/groups/1478617@N25/pool/ A flickr collection by LisaGenius.

there's still a registered trademark for the logo, which includes the word "SRIRACHA" in it. http://tsdr.uspto.gov/#caseNumber=74021095&caseType=SERIAL_N...

I help clients negotiate SAAS deals, and I like this as a template. It's better than 95% of the contracts I see. But since this is the internet, I will use the rest of this post to…

I disagree. A design patent for a user interface would do the trick. So would some clever copyright registrations. http://adlervermillion.com/user-interface-design-patents/ Not eve…

Gray text on a light-gray background is difficult to read. http://contrastrebellion.com/