UMG claims rights to a song and hijacks the artist's YouTube revenue

Re:UMG claims rights to a song and hijacks the artist's YouT... by spiritplumber on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @12:35PM (#9219130)

That's a great idea, isn't there a common "defensive patents chest" for this?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PatentFreedom Looks like they got bought out by an Intellectual Ventures clone. One of my regrets in life is that I have lived within trebuchet range of the main IV office, and never did anything with it.

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Re:UMG claims rights to a song and hijacks the artist's YouT... by jamii on Tuesday March 17, 2015 @01:51PM (#9219817)

http://defensivepatentlicense.org/ - if you license all of your patents under the DPL you then get free licenses to all other DPL patents. Your membership and licenses are revoked if you sue any other member for patent infringement.

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