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Google denies Viacom copyright charges

Google denies Viacom copyright chargesHere is the problem..."under the Hosting Safe Harbor of the 1998 Digital Millennium Copyright Act, Kwun said. Under the provision, service providers that host other people's content are "safe" from liability if they quickly remove material a content owner alleges infringes on their copyright."Apparently Google has...

Tags: Google Inc., copyright holder, DMCA, Viacom Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-05-01

A proposal for a new kind of "fair use"

A proposal for a new kind of "fair use"If it is truley fair use then there is no licenseA license is permission to engage in a protected right of a copyright holder- most notably to copy or create derivative works.Fair Use on the other hand, the full name of the...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Fair Use, copyright holder, fair use

Discussion threads 2007-04-06

DMCA should scare us all

DMCA should scare us all"DRM is corporate leverage" - Excellent choice of words!I have been trying to think of a good one-sentence of why DRM is bad. Giving it a more memorable name, such as CRAP, helps, but if you can't explain why its CRAP within a couple of...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, copyright holder, DMCA, EULA, digital-rights management

Discussion threads 2006-10-14

Blogging from the front lines of the RIAA wars

Blogging from the front lines of the RIAA warsHere is a clue... It is NOT the RIAA vs. the people !It's the RIAA, MPAA and all copyright holders against Pirates and facilitators of theft. Stealing and illegally distributing copyright protected works be it music, video, software, etc. IS A CRIME...

Tags: PRODUCTIVITY, blog, blogging, copyright holder, RIAA

Discussion threads 2006-09-16

Universal's Grokster is showing

Universal's Grokster is showingMyspace and Copyright InfringementMyspace is indeed a cesspool of copyright infringement, of all the cases of infringement of my own work I track, Myspace now makes up almost half of all cases.However, it's not music or video that needs to fear the Myspace beast. Ironically most illegal...

Tags: Corporate communications, TVs, TV & Home Theater, Grokster Ltd., copyright holder, MySpace, music industry, MTV, video

Discussion threads 2006-09-14

Google argues with U.K. publishers over digital libraries

Google argues with U.K. publishers over digital librariesGood line."There's not necessarily a coincidence of interest between search engines and copyright holders," said Brindley.Nor between copyright holders and libraries. In fact, it's easy to imagine every argument used against Google search being used against libraries as well. "We only...

Tags: Web site development, Web technology, Google Inc., copyright holder

Discussion threads 2006-06-06

Additional Resources

Stallman admits GPL flawed, proprietary licensing needed to pay for MySQL development

You really believe that?Look at Red Hat. $5.1 Bln market cap and they're not making *any* money with free software? There is plenty of money out there for consulting services and support. Just ask IBM.Proprietary software is not religion.The problem with Sun was that they couldn't commit either...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Databases, Websters, MySQL, GPL, Stallman

Discussion threads 2009-10-22

Veoh wins copyright suit, brightening YouTube's future

Let us hope that this ruling is, indeed,taken 'very seriously' - it certainly deserves to be !...HenriRE: Veoh wins copyright suit, brightening YouTube's futurei think it's a win for everyone. you can go to the library and check these things out anyway. where's the crime?only if your selling there material...

Tags: Veoh, YouTube Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-09-15

An open letter to the RIAA: Illegal file sharing problem solved?

I think I'll skip......governments collecting and paying royalties. Its called tolling and every business in the world would like to access governments' ability to use force to collect money for them.What would be the outcome of such a scheme? Whenever "artists" (and I use the word loosely given...

Tags: Taxes, Vertical industries, Free trade, Peer to peer (P2P), RIAA, government, file sharing problem, tax, open letter, file-sharing

Discussion threads 2009-08-31

Lawyer files a full-throated attack on Google Books deal

Lawyers and the New York Times are sitting up to take notice of a new "sweeping" objection to the Google Books deal. The objector is Scott E. Gant, an author and partner at the Washington law firm of Boies Schiller & Flexner. In an interview, he told the Times: ...

Tags: Google Inc., Class Action, Attack, Gant, Litigation, Business Operations, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-08-19

Writers who call MPAA or RIAA awful need to look in the mirror

"Sitting on your rear end"?I think the authors did more then just sit on their rear ends: They wrote the books. (OK they sat on their rear ends while writing it, but that is better then standing the entire time)Everyone forgets that without that author writing the book, it would...

Tags: awful need, MPAA, RIAA, reasonable time, patent

Discussion threads 2009-08-19

FSF petitions against Amazon's Big Brother attitude

FSF petitions against Amazon's Big Brother attitudeDRM or no DRM Amazon chose the wrong ...... path when they removed books from the libraries of those who had purchased those books. If Amazon mistakenly distributed books for which it had no right to do so, the proper action would have...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Amazon.com Inc., Free Software Foundation

Discussion threads 2009-08-04

Tenenbaum admits all, while judge's ruling opens the door to a massive damages award

More high drama in the Tenenbaum trial, as defendant Joel Tenenbaum cheerily admitted illegal downloading and uploading of the 30 songs for which he's accused of copyright violations. Ben Sheffner reports for Ars Technica on Joel's witness box revelations: ...

Tags: Tenenbaum, Filesharers, Piracy, Strategy, Business Operations, Corporate Law, Management, Richard Koman

Blog posts 2009-07-30

Streaming music fundamentally changing music business

Streaming music fundamentally changing music businessAre you sure about that?[i]music will no longer be a product that you buy.[/i]I'm not so sure about that claim. I just saw a TV story today on how vinyl records are making a comeback. Best Buy is now stocking vinyl records again;...

Tags: Streaming Music, music business

Discussion threads 2009-07-25

Live@edu and Moodle: A shameless publicity stunt?

Live@edu and Moodle: A shameless publicity stunt?LicensingAssuming that Microsoft is the copyright holder of this code, they can do what ever they wish with it. They are NOT restricted to the GPL.Any later additions/changes by others is another story however.Okay, what is the problem?I'm not sure that I follow your...

Tags: OPEN SOURCE, Blogging, Microsoft Corp., Moodle, Google Inc., Live@edu, publicity stunt

Discussion threads 2009-07-22

Apple, and pretty much everyone, sued over touchpad technology

Apple, and pretty much everyone, sued over touchpad technologyHere comes the patent trolls, sigh.The patent trolls strike again.IMHO we should have "use it or lose it" laws in the patent system: If you don't use a patent in an actual product, you risk losing it and can't renew it.Not to...

Tags: patent, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2009-07-21

Amazon ate my homework, or why DRM stinks for education

Amazon ate my homework, or why DRM stinks for educationHave the kindles linked to the grade not the student.The way to get around this (not the Amazon eating homework, but the reuse DRM issue) is to have the Kindles for a specific grade. All ninth graders have the same Kindles...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, Internet Connectivity, digital-rights management, Amazon.com Inc., homework, education

Discussion threads 2009-07-21

Amazon's Kindle: A customer relationship management appliance?

Amazon's Kindle: A customer relationship management appliance?WOWAs we all know from reading these forums, anything can be spun, and this article proves it.RE: Amazon's Kindle: A customer relationship management appliance?Following this logic an alternate explanation is possible -- Kindle is primarily a walled-garden distribution platform for maximizing sales by cutting...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), E-books, Advertising & Promotion, Customer relationship management (CRM), Digital media, Amazon.com Inc., customer-relationship management appliance, Amazon Kindle, CRM

Discussion threads 2009-07-20

Amazon gets bullied, pulls purchased e-books from Kindles

Amazon gets bullied, pulls purchased e-books from KindlesDTPALet's hope somebody decides to sue their butts off under a state's Deceptive Trade Practices Act -- claiming that an item sold has qualities, characteristics, source, certification, approval or etc., which in fact it does not have (e.g., claiming non-kosher products are kosher)....

Tags: E-books, Amazon.com Inc., e-book

Discussion threads 2009-07-17

Judge's idea to outlaw links won't save newspapers

I continue to be blown away by what I read about how newspapers can be saved. The latest comes from U.S. Appeals Court Judge Richard Posner who, in a blog post last week, suggested that one way to save newspapers from their demise would be "to bar linking to...

Tags: Newspaper, Consent, Blogging, Benefits, Payroll Solutions, Personal Finance, Internet, Human Resources, Sam Diaz

Blog posts 2009-07-02