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Submission + - Warner loses rights, sues Lawyer who won (techdirt.com)

Submitted by Anonymous Coward
An anonymous reader writes: The lawyer who represented the Siegel estate, Marc Toberoff, has been pushing content creators and their estates to understand (and make use of) termination rights for a long time. Apparently, Warner Bros. (a frequent target of Toberoff) has had enough and has decided to sue Toberoff personally, claiming that... well... basically that he's a jerk and a savvy business person, which I didn't quite realize was illegal.
Government

Submission + - China Rejects US Piracy Claims as "Groundless" (reuters.com)

Submitted by eldavojohn
eldavojohn writes: Earlier this month, a United States piracy list fingered China, Russia and Canada as the first, second and third worst governments (respectively) for enforcing copyright policy in the world. China's Foreign Ministry has rejected these claims as "groundless" just before meeting with Secretary of State Hillary Clinton and Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner.on Monday and Tuesday in Beijing to address copyright policy. The official Chinese statement read, "The involved U.S. Congress members should respect the fact and stop making groundless accusations against China." The plan nevertheless remains to use the visit to pressure China into overhauling their failed attempts to curb piracy since software piracy in China appears to be a social norm with the Chinese government possibly even leading by example.
Science

Submission + - UC Berkeley Asking Incoming Students For DNA (ktvu.com) 1

Submitted by peterofoz
peterofoz writes: What could possibly go wrong?

The students will be asked to voluntarily submit a DNA sample. The cotton swabs will come with two bar code labels. One label will be put on the DNA sample and the other is kept for the students own records.

Next: Police subpoena DNA records to identify possible terror suspects. News at 11:00

Submission + - First Anarchist's Cookbook Convictions (telegraph.co.uk)

Submitted by analysethis
analysethis writes: In the UK last month the author/compiler of the well-known-in-internet-circles 'terrorist handbook' pleaded guilty to seven counts of collecting information that could have been used to prepare or commit acts of terrorism, with a maximum jail term of 10 years. Today the first people caught with downloaded copies have been put behind bars — a white supremacist father and son pairing getting 10 & 2 years respectively, convicted of three counts of possessing material useful for acts of terror. How many will be emptying their recycle bins after this conviction?

As of writing, the book is still freely available on Amazon.com to buy.
Idle

Submission + - Life-size Eva Unit 01 being built in Japan (examiner.com)

Submitted by JoshuaInNippon
JoshuaInNippon writes: Japan has gone life-size anime model crazy. Last year there was the robotic 1:1 Gundam model that guarded Tokyo for a few months in the summer to mark the series' 30th anniversary, and then there was the giant Gigantor moment that opened in Kobe in the fall in honor of the city's rejuvenation from the devastating 1995 earthquake. Now, an amusement park near Mt. Fuji named Fuji-Q Highland is building an Eva Unit 01 from the popular Neon Genesis Evangelion series, or at least a bust of it, in conjunction with the series' recent movies. The bust will sit in a replica hanger, and reportedly stand around 9 meters tall. Visitors will have the chance, for a little extra money, to have their photo taken in the unit's cockpit, where the series' protagonist-of-sorts Shinji Ikari normally sits. The attraction is set to a cost of over US$1.6 million to build, and open on July 23rd of this year. It will also undoubtedly be swamped by crazed fans looking the opportunity to bring their anime dreams to life.
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Submission + - Facebook legally owns your personality (examiner.com) 2

Submitted by kamk2k8
kamk2k8 writes: Certain changes Facebook made regarding its privacy policy caused an uproar in the social networking community this week. However, these changes should not surprise users as this is a natural extension of a dubious policy which has been in Facebook’s terms of service (now: “Statement of Rights & Responsibilities") for quite some time.

Section 2, article 1 states: “For content that is covered by intellectual property rights, like photos and videos ("IP content"), you specifically give us the following permission, subject to your privacy and application settings: you grant us a non-exclusive, transferable, sub-licensable, royalty-free, worldwide license to use any IP content that you post on or in connection with Facebook ("IP License").” Put simply, this means Facebook owns everything you upload onto its site; even to the extent that it can profit from your personal data.

Considering the amount of information the average person uploads onto its servers, in essence, Facebook owns your personality, and they intend to cash in on it, or rather, cash in on you.

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