Archive for the ‘Legal’ Category

Scotts Suing Worm Poop Providers

Thursday, May 24th, 2007

Scotts Miracle-Gro is suing a tiny company selling worm processed biological waste. The basis? Their logo uses a circle. And has colors.

I’d feel a whole lot better if I was making that up.

So TerraCycle, the sue-ee in this instance, has started up a website to let others see what they feel is a grave injustice. And frankly, if Scotts is suing based on a visible packaging similarity between their product and TerraCycle’s worm poop, it probably is.

Find out more at the supporting website.

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Reporters Without Borders Petition Steve Jobs

Thursday, August 31st, 2006

Apple’s subcontractor is attempting to finish their cleanup job. After running a quick PR campaign to convince people that their sweatshops in China weren’t bad (because, hey, they’re Apple, right?) contractor FoxConn swept into high gear and and had the Chinese reporters who covered the story’s assets frozen and filed a ~3 million Euro lawsuit against them.

While the Reporters Without Borders group is petitioning Steve Jobs to intercede on the Chinese reporters behalf, he doesn’t have such a good track record with press freedom.

Hopefully the reporters involved will have someone intercede on their behalf. Their reporting did expose some valid flaws in Foxconn’s working conditions based on Apple’s “Code of Conduct” and it looks like they’ll be punished for it if no one intercedes.

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