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17
May

Activision and Electronic Arts Settle Lawsuit | Reuters

#gaming #ea #activision #legal #law According to Dan Levine 2012, “Activision Blizzard Inc and arch rival video game company Electronic Arts Inc have settled a lawsuit in which Activision accused two former executives of breaking their employment agreements to develop games for EA.” Read more > http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/05/17/us-activision-ea-settlement-idUSBRE84F1K220120517

14
Jan

U.S. General Warns Troops To Treat Dead With Dignity And Respect | CNN | (incl. Video)

#usmarines #afghanistan #peeing #desecration #dishonorable According to CNN Wire Staff 2012, “The deputy commander of U.S. forces in Afghanistan ordered troops Friday to treat the corpses of slain insurgents and civilians with “appropriate dignity and respect.” The order follows a video that appears to show four U.S. Marines urinating on bodies, images that sparked swift condemnation from the United States and Afghanistan at a particularly crucial period in the U.S.-led war.
“We must treat the living and the dead with dignity and respect,” Gen. Curtis Scaparrotti said in the directive, which was published Friday on the website of the NATO-led force in Afghanistan. He said troops must follow the rules of armed conflict and “act honorably at all times.” Read More > http://www.cnn.com/2012/01/13/us/video-marines-urinating/index.html?hpt=wo_c2

7
Jan

Man Wins Web Squatting Suit Involving His Name | NYTimes.com

#legal #law #cyberbullying #tech According to Brian X. Chen 2012,  ”A New York man on Friday won a lawsuit against a woman whom he accused of registering Web addresses incorporating his name and demanding $1 million for each of them.

In a lawsuit filed in Federal District Court for the Southern District in Manhattan, Paul Bogoni, a real estate investor, accused Vicdania Gomez of buying the addresses paulbogoni.com and paulbogoni.org and pretending that her 3-year-old daughter Vittoria Gomez was updating the associated sites.” Read more > http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/01/06/new-york-cyber-squatter/

7
Sep

Ramadan Mubarak!! Eid Mubarak!!!

allah_swtAsalaam alaikum wa rahmatulahi wa barakatuh my Muslim brothers and sisters around the world. As we come upon the end of Ramadan and our holy fast I would like to give praise the brave brothers and sisters who take up the struggle around the world. RAMADAN MUBARAK EID al-FITR!! An accumulation of years being on the straight and narrow path (Salat and Transcendental Meditation TM) seeking wisdom and truth through positive thinking and positive actions.

The “Koran by Heart” an HBO Documentary aired on the first day of Ramadan and was a wonderful way to start the fast and holy month. According to HBO 2011, “In Egypt over 100 kids from 70 countries compete annually in the world’s oldest Holy Qu’ran memorization contest.” It’s amazing. I know 8 or 10 chapters from The Holy Qu’ran. The kids memorize the entire Holy Qu’ran between 5 and 10 years old Insha Allah. Amazing!

Unfortunately our brothers and sisters in Syria, Libya Egypt and other countries had to suffer through this 2011 Ramadan. May Allah bless their souls and continue to protect and provide sustenance for the survivors.

 

14
Mar

Activision Blizzard Joins Broad Coalition Urging Rejection by The U.S. Supreme Court on California’s Flawed Restrictions of Video Game Purchases

(PRESS RELEASE) SANTA MONICA – Activision Blizzard, Inc. (Nasdaq: ATVI), the interactive entertainment software industry’s leading publisher, today announced it supports respondents in Schwarzenegger v. EMA (No. 08-1448) and has joined the historic alliance of film, music, publishing, advertising, journalism, creative guilds, software, comic books, and other media-related groups, as well as 10 state Attorneys General, numerous legal scholars and social science professionals urging the U.S. Supreme Court to strike down a 2005 California law that would interfere with the First Amendment by creating an unprecedented exception for unprotected speech. Read more > http://www.activisionblizzard.com/corp/ui/pdf/Activision_Blizzard_Press_Release.pdf

17
Dec

Commerce Department seeks Web privacy enforcements | Reuters #privacy

According to #DianeBartz 2010, “The #CommerceDepartment should have its own #privacy office and develop voluntary, enforceable codes of conduct for data companies and #advertisers that track people on the #Internet, said a report by the department’s Internet Policy Task Force.” Article Continued > http://www.reuters.com/article/idUSTRE6BF3ID20101216 #dianebartz #Internet #web #privacy #commercedepartment #consulting @Reuters @Callistecomm

18
Nov

“Image #rights vs free speech in #video #game suit” | @NYTimes #arizonastate #easports #musicbiz #likeness

@jerrycallistejr says, “I really like this “Image Rights vs Free Speech In Video Game Suit” article by Katie Thomas since I’m constantly in a similar quandary with social media and independent music media networks about the improper and what I believe to be illegal use of my “likeness” image, trade name and trademark Jerry Calliste Jr. Just off the top of my head I am considering filing a couple of lawsuits of my own to combat this flagrant misuse of my likeness. Social media networks @MySpace and @YouTube have communicated with with me and my music publisher to correct the inaccuracy. Both networks I find have pro-active copyright and trademark infringement departments. As of right now I’m working on removals with YouTube’s infringement department. MySpace cleared an issue. Me and @Wikipedia awhile ago worked out a resolution since Wikipedia only allows one page per person and they kept a Jerry Calliste Jr. article created by mediapr and forward other referenced material to that article. The blue and white social book on the other hand hmmm – no comment. I’ll keep you posted.”

According to Katie Thomas 2010, “When Sam Keller, a former quarterback at Arizona State, sued the video game publisher Electronic Arts last year, he was seeking compensation for himself and other college athletes whose names were not used but whose images he contended were being illegally used by the company.” Continued > http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/16/sports/16videogame.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss #arizonastate #easports #legal #law #likeness #musicbiz #samkeller #katiethomas

11
Aug

Top American Rabbis Rally Behind the ‘Ground Zero Mosque’ | Huffington Post

According to Joshua Stanton 2010, “When I told a friend that I had helped found Religious Freedom USA to affirm the right to build the Park 51 community center in Lower Manhattan (often mislabeled the “Ground Zero Mosque”), he responded with a cautionary note: “What about the risk you are taking in your future career as a rabbi?” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/joshua-stanton/top-american-rabbis-rally_b_675066.html #ramadan #ramadanmubarak #ramadan2010 #huffingtonpost #judaism #park51 #religiousfreedomusa #groundzeromosque

7
Oct

Reuters, "Record labels sue Guns 'n' Roses for copying songs"

Reuters, “Record labels sue Guns ‘n’ Roses for copying songs” http://www.reuters.com/article/musicNews/idUSTRE5944WT20091005