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Copyright czar is born: Prez signs Pro-IP law

Copyright czar is born: Prez signs Pro-IP law"This law will dramatically move the priority of IP enforcement up..."I certainly hope so, because we all know that IP enforcement is much more important than the minor issues like counter-terrorism, border patrol, organized crime and the thousands of unsolved murders committed...

Tags: Copyright Czar, Pro-IP, Prez

Discussion threads 2008-10-13

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The American Textbook Accessibility Act

The American Textbook Accessibility ActChris, you're dreamingThe only way this is going to get a Federal charter is if someone with enough muscle gets to skim rents.None of the players have enough concentrated political pull to overcome the others who would gang up to block the monopoly play, so it's...

Tags: Vertical industries, American Textbook Accessibility Act, government

Discussion threads 2009-07-29

Microsoft: Money Just Wants to Be Free

Microsoft: Money Just Wants to Be FreeMS can't do it, they are a monopolyMonopolies are not allowed to release products for free. Intuit would have them in front of an EC judge within seconds and 3 years later, MS would be fined billions of euros for this move.It's not a...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Microsoft Corp., Money Just Wants, Be Free, Intuit Inc., Jason

Discussion threads 2009-06-12

Biden to MPAA: You'll love our IP czar

Biden to MPAA: You'll love our IP czar"Czar". Is this, like, Russia or something?:)Okay, in seriousness, I certainly understand the merits of protecting IP... I just hope the system won't be abused. Which was partly why the IP system is such a mess to begin with...delete[Intended to...

Tags: Workforce management, Oboma, IP Czar, socialism, MPAA, IP, administration

Discussion threads 2009-04-24

Biden to MPAA: You'll love our IP czar

I said earlier that Biden is carrying water for Hollywood. Now Declan reports on News.com that Biden has made an assurance to the MPAA that "[We] will find the right person for intellectual property czar." If the Administration goes back to the same well for an IP...

Tags: MPAA, Hollywood, IP, Intellectual Property, Internet, Network Technology, Networking, Research & Development, Business Operations, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-04-24

News to know: IT turbulence, Windows 7, Facebook, Apple HDTV

Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily: Larry Dignan: IT warning: Turbulence ahead CEOs freak out; IT preps a do-over Gartner’s worst case for 2009 IT budgets isn’t so bad Sean...

Tags: Facebook, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows 7, Information Technology, HDTV, Apple Inc., Microsoft Windows, OpenOffice, Open Source, Strategy, Operating Systems, Software, Office Suites, Management, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2008-10-14

Copyright czar is born: Prez signs Pro-IP law

Get ready for the Copyright Czar. President Bush just signed the Pro-IP Act (the Prioritizing Resources and Organization for Intellectual Property Act of 2008), which provides for a new executive position dedicated to managing copyright protections. The bill also increases penalties for infringement...

Tags: President, U.S. Congress, Intellectual Property, Leadership, Strategy, Research & Development, Business Operations, Management, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-13

Will Bush sign Pro-IP? Biz, labor, schools push for it

There's no word yet on whether President Bush will sign the PRO-IP bill [ZDN] but big business and labor were united in favor of the bill that creates a copyright czar in the executive branch. The bill originally called for the Justice Dept. to prosecute copyright...

Tags: Bill, President, IP, Justice Dept, Network Technology, Networking, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-10-10

Congress passes 'unconstitutional' Pro-IP bill, Bush likely to veto

Congress passes 'unconstitutional' Pro-IP bill, Bush likely to vetoGee...What a surprise that a bunch of compromised congresscritters pass another attack on the People with the backing of the "Copyright Alliance". (read, BSA, MPAA, RIAA, MS, Time Warner, Disney...)It's good that Bush will veto it. Even though he's only doing it...

Tags: Blogging, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, Bush, Pro-IP, U.S. Congress

Discussion threads 2008-09-29

Another net neutrality bill, in a Comcast-charged atmosphere

The latest net neutrality bill, offered by Reps. John Conyers (D-Mich.) and Zoe Lofgren (D-Calif.), is a second try to treat neutrality as an antitrust issue, Ars Technica says. It's essentially the same bill that failed in 2006. The bill is intended to "promote competition,...

Tags: Bill, Comcast Corp., U.S. Congress, Net Neutrality, Internet, Networking, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-05-09

House committee passes 'gluttonous' Pro IP Act

So, we have a credit crisis, a foreclosure crisis, a full-blown recession and no plans on how to get out of Iraq or how to create a regional solution. So what do we need? How about an intellectual property czar and stiffer penalties for unauthorized music downloading? ...

Tags: Damage, CD, IP, Piracy, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2008-05-01

Complete Works of Jules Verne. Huge collection. FREE Author's biography and stories (Mobile)

Indulge Yourself with the best classic literature on Your PDA. Navigate easily to any novel from Table of Contents or search for the words or phrases. Authors biography and free stories in the trial version.Features Navigate from Table of Contents or search for words or phrases Make bookmarks, notes, highlights...

Tags: Earth, Mobile, Biology

Software downloads 2007-09-25

Complete Works of Jules Verne. Huge collection. FREE Author's biography and stories (Mobile)

Indulge Yourself with the best classic literature on Your PDA. Navigate easily to any novel from Table of Contents or search for the words or phrases. Authors biography and free stories in the trial version.Features Navigate from Table of Contents or search for words or phrases Make bookmarks, notes, highlights...

Tags: Earth, Mobile, Biology, MobileReference

Software downloads 2007-09-25

Red Hat lawyer is right about indemnification not mattering. But for the wrong reasons

According to a new FAQ on Red Hats Web site -- one thats primarily designed to spin the bilateral legal protection that Microsoft and Novell have assured to each other as a net positive for Red Hat -- the North Carolina-based distributor of open source software will now offer indemnification...

Tags: General, Open Source, Software Infrastructure, Legal, indemnification

Blog posts 2006-11-06

Sony software czar's big challenge

Sony software czar's big challengeIf he can stand up to Jobs......maybe he can stand up to those running the content side of Sony's empire, and instead do what's best for the much bigger and more profitable electronics side of things. It's been shocking to watch over the last few...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, DMCA, software, Sony Corp., RIAA

Discussion threads 2006-01-30

Rocking the free world

Rocking the free world180n.com180n.com is a site allowing readers to vote up which of the stories streaming from big M news media are actually important vs what they spoon feed. In the river of news & rss spirit it is also something I call WebRSS - a web presentation...

Tags: Podcasts, Top10, RSS

Discussion threads 2006-01-03