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recent bookmarks from jmLawsuit: "pivoting to video" was a disaster led by Facebook's cooked viewing data / Boing Boing2018-10-17T22:19:44+00:00
https://boingboing.net/2018/10/17/lawsuit-pivoting-to-video.html
jmThe company decided to "obfuscate the fact that we screwed up the math" by quietly retiring the erroneous metrics and replacing them with corrected metrics under a new name. For instance, Average Duration of Video Viewed would be replaced with Average Watch Time. [...] In August 2016, Facebook began reaching out privately to select, large advertisers, telling them that Facebook had "recently discovered a discrepancy" in the video ad average view metrics. Facebook pushed that message even as personnel internally emphasized that "we didn't recently discover a discrepancy." (emphasis added).
]]>facebook metrics video fail lawsuits contenthttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:e26777256e2c/How Google Book Search Got Lost – Backchannel2017-04-11T20:52:13+00:00
https://backchannel.com/how-google-book-search-got-lost-c2d2cf77121d
jmThere are plenty of other explanations for the dampening of Google’s ardor: The bad taste left from the lawsuits. The rise of shiny and exciting new ventures with more immediate payoffs. And also: the dawning realization that Scanning All The Books, however useful, might not change the world in any fundamental way.
]]>books reading google library lawsuits legal scanning book-search searchhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:7ab6ee448e22/The Uber Bombshell About to Drop2017-03-14T12:31:27+00:00
https://danielcompton.net/2017/03/14/uber-bombshell
jmalphabet google uber lawsuits ip waymohttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:888afa0a5e35/Lawsuit Filed To Prove Happy Birthday Is In The Public Domain; Demands Warner Pay Back Millions Of License Fees | Techdirt2013-06-14T09:35:00+00:00
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20130613/11165823451/filmmaker-finally-aims-to-get-court-to-admit-that-happy-birthday-is-public-domain.shtml
jmThe issue [...] is that it's just not cost effective for anyone to actually stand up and challenge Warner Music, who has strong financial incentive to pretend the copyright is still valid. Well, apparently, someone is pissed off enough to try. The creatively named Good Morning to You Productions, a documentary film company planning a film about the song Happy Birthday, has now filed a lawsuit concerning the copyright of Happy Birthday and are seeking to force Warner/Chappell to return the millions of dollars it has collected over the years. That's going to make this an interesting case.
]]>music copyright law via:bwalsh public-domain happy-birthday songs warner-music lawsuitshttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:eb13bcbea60b/Adding Insult to Plagiary?2013-04-10T22:06:41+00:00
http://chronicle.com/blogs/percolator/adding-insult-to-plagiary-scientist-who-complained-of-copying-got-legal-threats/32525
jmSometimes people borrow [Colin Purrington's free guide about making scientific posters] without giving him credit. This happens fairly regularly, and when he finds out about it, he sends an e-mail asking them to take it down. Usually they do. But when he sent an e-mail to the Consortium for Plant Biotechnology Research, asking that a roughly 1,200-word, near-verbatim, uncredited chunk from his guide be removed from the consortium’s materials, the response was unexpected. Rather than apologise, a lawyer sent him a cease-and-desist letter accusing him of plagiarizing the consortium’s materials and demanding that he take down his guide or face a lawsuit seeking damages up to $150,000.
]]>streisand-effect lawsuits law infringement copyright cpbr bullying science postershttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:daf738a8ba94/This Bacteria is Violating Copyright | tor.com | Science fiction and fantasy | Blog posts2011-04-18T15:41:56+00:00
http://www.tor.com/blogs/2011/03/this-bacteria-is-violating-copyright
jmcopyright dna bacteria james-joyce joyce-estate frivolous lawsuits copyfight craig-venterhttps://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:a0472a915158/Customers suing banks for poor anti-phishing practices2010-02-21T23:10:21+00:00
https://blogs.verisign.com/ssl-blog/2010/02/banks_being_sued_for_failing_t.php
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