Archive for the 'Law' Tag
November 16th, 2009, 2:43 pm by Jayson Peters
 Terry Goddard Vonage must alter its marketing practices, honor consumer cancellation requests and even provide refunds to some customers under a settlement announced today by Arizona Attorney General Terry Goddard that also involves 31 other state attorneys general.
Customers had complained of difficulty dropping their service due to incentives Vonage offered employees who prevented cancellation, as well as confusion over the cost of the company’s equipment and services.
“We cannot allow companies to ignore their customers’ legal rights. Consumers must be treated with decency and not put off or prevented from canceling their phone service,” Goddard said in the announcement, which you can read in full after the jump.
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September 26th, 2009, 10:29 pm by Jayson Peters
 A game of Fluxx The creators of the ever-changing card game Fluxx are expanding into hazy territory.
Fully Baked Ideas, a new imprint of the family friendly games company Looney Labs, will publish an updated edition of the once controversial and now out-of-print Stoner Fluxx. The new company’s official site promises that 5 percent of the proceeds from the game’s sale will be donated to organizations that actively support the end of marijuana prohibition in the United States.
Other editions of the game published by Looney include Zombie Fluxx, Monty Python Fluxx and the recently released Martian Fluxx. All versions of the game feature the same basic mechanic: Each card played can change the rules or goal of the game, making sure it’s a different experience every time.
Looney explains that a spin-off brand was necessary “to make sure children are not accidentally exposed to adult themes on our family games web site.” Fully Baked’s new edition of Stoner Fluxx will be followed at some point by the recently announced Drinking Fluxx.
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August 20th, 2009, 10:50 pm by Jayson Peters
 O'Connor Think you have what it takes to be a Supreme Court clerk?
Sandra Day O’Connor says: Bring it, noob.
Supreme Decision, a free computer game for teens created with the help of the former Supreme Court justice and Arizona lawmaker, has launched at www.ourcourts.org. It’s the first of several planned Web-based games designed to get middle-school age students totally amped about the Constitution and the legal system.
Players assume the role of a clerk helping one of the esteemed justices prepare for a tie-breaking vote on a First Amendment case. It’s kind of like when I was in school and our class split into groups to roleplay a similar scenario — except, now the students can do it at individual computers, ignoring each other and preparing for a life of featureless solitude in the cubicle farms of Changzhou.
Via The Associated Press
Posted in: Gaming • Internet • PC • Arizona • Law • Sandra Day O'Connor • simulation | Post a Comment »
July 31st, 2009, 11:26 pm by Jayson Peters
I wasn’t going to blog about this, but it just got a lot more interesting.
On Tuesday Apple rejected an iPhone app for Google Voice, a free VoIP service that lets users link their various phone numbers together. Immediately a googol of Google fans cried foul, saying the iPhone maker was stifling innovation by acting only in its own self-interest.
Now, late Friday, comes word via The Wall Street Journal that the Federal Communications Commission has sent letters to Google, Apple and iPhone carrier AT&T, wanting to know more about Apple’s practices of late.
A clash of the titans is brewing, it seems. And now the government is getting involved.
Via Gawker/LifeHacker
Posted in: Apple • Business • Internet • Technology • FCC • Google • Google Voice • iPhone • Law • VoIP | 1 Comment »
July 23rd, 2009, 10:36 pm by Jayson Peters
BBC News is reporting that a family in Saudi Arabia is suing a genie, accusing it of threats, stonings and mobile phone theft. They say the troublesome spirit has forced them to flee their home of 15 years.
 Westerners know genies, or jinn, from the tale of Aladdin and the sitcom I Dream of Jeannie, but they are actually supernatural figures deeply rooted in, and predating, Islam. But granting wishes for others and never yourself, and living in oil lamps and bottles, has got to take its toll on a spirit over the millennia. Phenomenal cosmic powers … itty-bitty living space!
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Posted in: Sci-Fi & Fantasy • BBC • djinn • genie • haunting • Islam • jinn • Law • supernatural | Post a Comment »
July 9th, 2009, 8:05 am by Jayson Peters
 According to a report by Michael Hinman at Airlock Alpha, the family of late Superman creator Jerry Siegel will have to be happy with the royalties they’re getting now for the iconic comic book character. A U.S. District Court judge said Warner Bros. and DC Comics have fulfilled their obligations to the Siegels under a profit-sharing agreement for the 2006 movie Superman Returns and the CW series Smallville. It’s just the latest in a long line of legal battles for the heirs, including a federal court decision last year to awarded them half of the copyright to the Superman material in Action Comics No. 1.
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June 30th, 2009, 2:15 pm by Jayson Peters
 Amazon Kindle DX Arizona State University is being sued by advocates for the blind, who say the school is discriminating against vision-impaired students by offering textbooks via Amazon’s Kindle DX electronic reading device, according to a story by Courthouse News Service.
Darrell Shandrow, an ASU journalism student who is listed as a plaintiff along with the National Federation of the Blind and the American Council of the Blind, tells ASU’s State Press that the Kindle DX’s lack of an audio menu interfacefeatures locks the blind out of the new technology and puts them at a competitive disadavantage.
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Posted in: Books • Technology • Amazon • ASU • e-books • Kindle • Law • lawsuit • Litigation | 7 Comments »
June 19th, 2009, 11:33 pm by Jayson Peters
An Associated Press story reveals more details about the recent Dungeons & Dragons lawsuits than you can shake a Rod of Lordly Might at.
One of the defendants is bravely questing forth to represent himself in a copyright infringement suit filed by Wizards of the Coast, which is basically Hasbro — one of the largest toymakers in the world. His case appears to be headed for mediation, so he may yet make his saving throw vs. scary corporate lawyers.
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April 6th, 2009, 10:58 pm by Jayson Peters
 Today the game company Wizards of the Coast filed three lawsuits targeting eight people accused of distributing pirated copies of its new Dungeons & Dragons book Player’s Handbook 2, while simultaneously ending its arrangements with online retailers to sell PDF copies of its past and present products. The move has set message boards ablaze with anti-WoTC sentiment that already was stoked by the new edition of the game and the transformation of the popular Dragon and Dungeon magazines from print to an online platform.
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Posted in: D&D • Gaming • Nerd rage • Piracy • RPGs • Dungeons & Dragons • Law • lawsuit • Paizo • PDF • WotC | Post a Comment »
February 15th, 2008, 10:38 pm by Jayson Peters
First, the latest news:
- There’s trouble in Middle-earth - again! The Tolkien estate is suing New Line Cinema for profits from the Lord of the Rings trilogy. This may cause yet another delay in the long-awaited production of The Hobbit.
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Posted in: Nerdvana Weekly • Dungeons & Dragons • Gary Gygax • Law • Litigation • Lucasfilm • Middle-earth • The Hobbit • Tolkien | Post a Comment »
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