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Freedom’s Just Another Word for Being Really Hard to Find
by Whatsblem the Pro No less a light than R. Buckminster Fuller once said that “You never change things by fighting the existing reality. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing...
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Burning Man Org to Burners: We Own You
by Whatsblem the Pro People who don’t know what Burning Man is tend to assume that it’s just another festival; a place where consumers go to enjoy passive entertainment arranged by event promoters....
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Judge Backs Off Pershing Roadblock: Deal is Done
Judge Jones in Reno, who said the settlement deal cut between Burning Man and Pershing County was “illegal, unenforceable and absurd“, and suggested the lawyers involved should go back to school – has...
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Canada Draws Battle Lines for Burner Culture [Updates]
Is there anyone out there who thinks Burning Man doesn’t care about lawsuits any more, because it is a charity and cares more about spreading Burner culture than it does about profit? If so, sadly, you...
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Steer Clear of Mono
Burner Brandon has a warning for Burners contemplating taking I-395: steer clear of Mono. The anti-Burner sheriff who set up special checkpoints last year has been voted out of the town – but this...
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12 Legal Tips for a Smoother Burn
Lawgives has put together this Free Legal Guide. It’s a great list of legal tips for all Burners to benefit from, big thanks to Lawgives and all the Reddit contributors. Lawgives says: Know your legal...
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BURNILEAKS: Bullying the Burners [Updates]
The post-Burning Man headaches for BMOrg continue to mount. If you believe in karma or physics, then you understand that for every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction. If you threaten legal...
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Embattled Burners Ask Community for Support
[Update 10/1/14]: please help with the modest amount they are raising to mount a defense. Napalm Dragon, who is being sued by BMOrg who never registered their trademark in Canada, has asked for help on...
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Back In The Day
In the current lawsuit between “non-profit” BMOrg, and non-profit BurnBC, a Canadian arts collective, BurnBC claim that “Burning Man culture” was something that arose in Canada independently of how...
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Help Canada
BurnBC, the non-profit collective of (some) Canadian Burners who is being sued by BMOrg for $40,000 for daring to have a legally registered trademark in their own country that they’ve been using for...
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Quick Update from Canada
One of our readers asked us today on Facebook what was going on with the lawsuit between Decommodification, LLC, a for-profit US company which did not exist before 2010, who are trying to use the term...
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Commodifying Decommodification
A guest post from our reader Pantsless Santa. It’s an eye-opener! The desire of these people to laugh at the very principles they created, and told us we had to live by, seems to know no bounds. image:...
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Burn BC Admits Defeat In Battle For Public Domain
Image: Roger Luijten/Flickr (Creative Commons) The epic fight between Burners in Canada and the corporate conglomerate of Decommodifcation LLC, the Burning Man Project, and Black Rock City LLC...
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Quiznos Commodifies Burner Culture [Updates]
20th Century Fox has a new film coming out “Maze Runner: The Scorch Trials”. Quiznos makes sandwiches. Put two and two together, and what do you get? Burning Man 2.0. When the Shark ate the Subway....
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Suing For Your Supper [Update]
Thanks very much to Burner ShaggyDog for this guest post about some of the legal issues surrounding the recent Quiznos parody. The BMOrg has put out quite a bit of bluster regarding a certain ad for a...
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Victory for the Little Guy! [Updates]
Over the last couple of years, we’ve been following with keen interest a lawsuit in Canada. The plaintiff was Decommodification, LLC – a private company the founders set up, which owns all the...
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Anti-Burner Judge Gets Spanked by Appeals Circuit for the SEVENTH Time
Burning Man announced today they won their appeal. Burners were left scratching their heads, without Propaganda Czar Will Chase there to put the usual spin on things. What does it all mean? Who’s suing...
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“It Wasn’t Me, It Was The Neighbors”– Satya Yuga Defense Begins
So far, Satya Yuga Collective founder Derrick Ion has not been charged with any crime in relation to the so-called “Oakland Ghost Ship Fire” which killed 36 people at the beginning of December. Nobody...
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How To Deal With Cops At Burning Man: 2017
A guest post from Mark Atwood How to deal with cops at Burning Man (2017 update) by Mark Atwood (Feel free to print out, share, and repost. This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution...
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Dave Acton Sues Jason Goodman [Update]
I mentioned these characters in CryptoBeast episode #2 and Short Bus Physics With Quinn and J.Go. Jason Goodman is in cahoots with the one-eyebrowed Sith Lord Quinn Michaels, who says that there is a...
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