If nothing else, Technicolor has contributed to that paragon of smoke-and-mirrors: endless growth in gross domestic product. GDP includes funds earned through the "service" of extracting licencing fees, whether sanely justified or obtained by threat of legal oblivion.

Project Gutenberg publishes materials that are in the public domain because the copyright term has expired, a fact you'd have noted had you bothered to look before going off half-cocked. They also publish a small number of books still in copyright for which they hold an explicit release from the author. Project Gutenberg is not depriving any author of rewards for their creativity, they are merely exercising the rights we have to materials in the public domain. Project Gutenberg may be depriving other publishers of income from peddling public domain works (often with a fraudulent copyright notice attached) - this is called competition and, at least at the moment, is not illegal.

Telstra and the AFL, the "big guys", beat Optus, the "little" guys. Both are large telco players: this was a Goliath v Goliath match in court... but only the little guys that the big guys did not feel threatened by, Beem and MyTVR, are going to go out of business as a result.

Indeed. If Osama bin Laden hid on the Moon you would be there by now... for about the same money and with fewer people killed in the process.

Article II of the Outer Space Treaty came into force before the first manned Moon landing and expressly prohibits the appropriation of celestial bodies by states. It does give the originating state control over any object it places in space, which would cover the Apollo, Luna, Surveyor etc. artefacts. Of course, there will eventually be some weasel-faced lawyer willing to try appropriating the Moon for a private equity firm registered in one of the countries that has not signed or ratified the treaty.

Yep, and the imports outstrip that. For the three months to March good and services imports averaged $233 gigabucks and exports averaged $183.1. With China in March imports outstripped exports by $21.7 gigabucks. That said, secret-squirrel-shit, ITAR restricted or bespoke components for military equipment are unlikely to be imported, even from allies.

Source: FT900: U.S. International Trade in Goods and Services

Perhaps not long, but it shouldn't last long in court unless they can show likely customer confusion between a browser and motorcycle accessories. The stylised "A" is not registered against any category like computer software. http://tess2.uspto.gov/bin/showfield?f=doc&state=4007:e52vk0.2.1

Or, the judge could consider 9 lines out of many thousands of lines in the original work as de minimis copying and admonish Oracle for bothering the court with trifles.

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Thankfully, I can only assume, the uploader has chosen to make this video unavailable in my country. I am blessed today :O)

Don't I feel a dummy for thinking this may have been the National Research Council.