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3 December, 2008

Posts Tagged ‘Harry Potter’

Alfred E. Newman Strikes Again

By Denis Campbell • Aug 4th, 2008 • Category: Business
Most consider it an honour to be pilloried by Mad Magazine’s “Usual Bunch of Idiots.” Everyone from the current Dark Night Batman movie to Harry Potter has been skewered by their classic satiric style. It’s good fun. That is until Al and friends messed with the gang at Circuit City.
One could not, until noon today, [...]


J.K. Rowling and the Chamber of Greedy Copyright Horrors

By Denis Campbell • Jul 29th, 2008 • Category: Media
(Reprise article) 
A lawyer friend once said “all Intellectual Property disputes can be broken down into two categories, “you trespassed on my property” or “it’s not your property.” A copyright, patent or trademark is a piece of paper much like a deed to your house. So if someone builds something that extends on to your property [...]