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Ron Coleman
Personal blog · likelihoodofconfusion.compoliticsculture
Ron Coleman writes LIKELIHOOD OF CONFUSION™, a personal blog at likelihoodofconfusion.com about politics and culture. Since 2011, 6 different Hacker News readers have linked it 6 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-08-23, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (3) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Ron Coleman's blog on intellectual property law, including posts on copyright in scans of public domain works and his legal publications. Commenters cite it as support for copyright points.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 3 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Blog about trademarks, brands, copyright & free speech by lawyer Ron Coleman. Since 2005!
Most-linked posts?
- /who-owns-the-copyright-scans-public-domain-works/2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-03-07
What Hacker News says?
This is probably correct. Scans of public domain works which are "slavish copies" containing "no spark of originality" were ruled public domain in Bridgeman Art Library vs Corel. http://www.likelihoodofconfusion.com/who-owns-the-copyright-...
Comment linking /who-owns-the-copyright-scans-public-domain-works/
on “3,500 Occult Manuscripts Will Be Digitized and Made Freely Available Online”Submitted NDA's and IP are nice, but they don't build businesses as a story · 5 points
HN discussionColeman won the 'Slants' case at SCOTUS, so he's the real thing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matal_v._Tam https://www.likelihoodofconfusion.com/legal-publications-ron...
Comment linking /legal-publications-ron-coleman/slants-redskins-and-other-disparaging-trademarks/
on “Ofcom fines 4chan £20K and counting for violating UK's Online Safety Act”Submitted The Protect IP Act: We’re all infringers now as a story · 3 points
HN discussionScanning doesn't generate a new copyright, in the USA at least, since it's not considered "creative" enough. See for example http://www.likelihoodofconfusion.com/who-owns-the-copyright-...
Comment linking /who-owns-the-copyright-scans-public-domain-works/
on “Elsevier sold me a Creative Commons non-commercial licensed article”Submitted PissedConsumer.com: Ascentive v. Opinion Corp. as a story · 1 points
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