Nicholas Sarkozi, the French President believes that serious copyright offenders should be disconnected from the Internet by the service providers. The French Court disagrees, considering Internet Access a basic human right – which is a bit daft in my opinion, although I am all for free access to information.
Anyway, since Mr Sarkozi’s presidential services have made 400 bootleg copies of a documentary about the president, he is clearly a serious copyright offender.
The French satirical investigative journalism weekly “ Le Canard Enchaîné” reveals “that our holier-than-thou presidency is in fact a pirate’s lair. In a stunning display of hypocrisy, the presidential audiovisual services produced 400 unauthorized copies of the 52 minutes documentary “A visage découvert : Nicolas Sarkozy”…
Unfortunately, this is not the first instance of copyright infringment by his excellency:
It is even more appalling that we are dealing with repeat offenders : last spring, while the Hadopi law was discussed, U.S. music duo MGMT received €30,000 as a settlement for a copyright infringement by French President Nicolas Sarkozy’s party who used one of its songs at a political rally without permission. Those who led the charge against Internet users are not the most respectful of copyright.”
As it is unlikely that the French president wants these recordings for personal viewing, this clearly goes well beyond any reasoanble description of fair use, and we call on my Sarkozy to disconnect himself from the Internet, or to resign from politics.
Posted by Dr Michael Factor 
Self-proclaimed patent expert and entrepeneur, Joseph Schneider, has been arrested for fraud. Schneider, wh founded the so called “Israel School for Inventors in Accordance with the Schneider System”, who offered IP services and who claimed to help clients prototype their ideas and to manufacture them in China is accused of pocketing his gullible client’s money.
There have been a number of big patent litigation suits against Microsoft, where record damages were awarded by the courts, which were subsequently drastically cut on appeal.
”Winning the Patent Damages case, A litigator’s Guide to Economic Models and Other Damage Strategies” by Richard F Cauley, Oxford University Press, 2008 is a handy 155 page flexible covered book that covers this esoteric field. Cauley believes that the parties in patent litigation too often concern themselves with proving or disproving infringment and do not put enough attention into calculating and proving the scope of the damages by vigorously pursuing a hypothetic negotiation to work out what would reasonably have been agreed by the parties.
