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Category Archives: copyright
Scott Adams on IP theft: “It feels like a compliment”
Recently on Twitter, I confessed a personal concern with my growing realization that the only economist who makes any sense to me is not actually an economist, but is Scott Adams, creator of the Dilbert comic strip. I’ve never been … Continue reading
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The frightening future of the entertainment industry
In light of last week’s posts about the entertainment industry’s effort to enact the legislation called SOPA (here and here), I saw a couple of items early this morning that reminded me that much of the reason that industry wants to out-legislate … Continue reading
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Tagged Accenture, Intellectual property, Television, youtube
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White House photos and copyright – a brief lesson
Flickr’s new link for the White House Recently, a great copyright learning opportunity occurred when the White House started posting on Flickr photos shot by White House staff photographers. As many who read this will know, Creative Commons is the … Continue reading
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O’Reilly decides to let this Missing Manual be found — on Wikipedia
Here’s a book publishing news-note that is refreshingly appropriate. A new book from the the O’Reilly “Missing Manual” series called “Wikipedia: The Missing Manual” is today being published simultaneously in print and is being posted in the Help section of … Continue reading
Joi Ito has captured and released some freesouls
The ‘boxed set’ version of Joi Ito’s new book, FREESOULS Captured & Released Years ago, I decided my friend Joi Ito knows everyone. And not just that, he knows everything. And not just that, he is everywhere. And not just … Continue reading
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Dear Yahoo! Fire Eagle – the flaming thumbtack is already taken
Today, Yahoo! announced the release of Fire Eagle, a service that, according to Search Engine Land, “is intended to be something of a ‘clearinghouse’ or ‘switchboard’ for location and help users ‘manage location’ across the internet and on mobile applications.” … Continue reading
Posted in copyright, design, humor, identity, social networks, titans, Yahoo
Tagged humor, Yahoo
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It’s their content and they can do what they wanna
[Sorry, earlier I had some versioning issues with this post as it reverted to previous iterations (user error, I'm sure). I think that's cleared up now.] From Robert Cox’s post on the back story of how the AP and the … Continue reading
Can you link to an AP story and include a brief excerpt? Yes, we can — but don’t
The question: Can you link to an AP story and include a brief excerpt? Why it’s news: Late last week, a portion of the blogosphere blew-up when the AP sent a takedown notice to the website Drudge ReTort (a Drudge … Continue reading
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How to rip a DVD to iTunes/iPod – legally
Via PaidContent.org, comes news (I guess it’s “news” that the Financial Times and Wall Street Journal are reporting what every Apple rumor site has been saying for weeks) that Apple will announce a rental option for some video purchased via … Continue reading
File-sharing (among Canadians, at least) is good for Big Music
Perhaps it’s because Canadians are a lot more honest than other North Americans, but I suspect the Canadian-government funded research study (here’s a link to the study, itself) into the effect of peer-to-peer music file-sharing on the purchase of music … Continue reading
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On second thought, Why Apple won’t sue Universal
The other day, I speculated-out-loud that Apple may have grounds to sue Universal for factors related to “restraint of trade” in not allowing DRM-free music to be sold via the iTunes store while opening up such an option to nearly … Continue reading
Judges gone wild
Quote of the day from Jason Fry in Real Time, his column in the Wall Street Journal: “U.S. District Court Judge Denny Chin’s decision is remarkable for hitting the trifecta of digital-age frustrations: It fetishizes technology at the expense of … Continue reading
What authors and creative artists fear more than piracy
Wired editor and author of the business best seller The Long Tail, Chris Anderson expresses little regret that his book (presumably an audio version) is available for free download via BitTorrent: In his post, Chris expresses little regret that a … Continue reading
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If ASCAP ruled the world?
Joi Ito points to a Japanese news story with the headline, “Elderly harmonica player arrested for performing copyrighted songs at bar.” Technorati Tags: copyright
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