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- Google says it would make books available to Amazon, Copyright Office says deal 'usurps' Congressional role
- Making ophan works accessible and free = good. Google exclusivity = badWhy is Congress so retarded?RE: Google is Playing by the RulesSaying that the courts do not make law is actually false. Courts decide if a law IS a valid or invalid and sets the limits as to what Congress...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-10
- Google says it would make books available to Amazon, Copyright Office says deal 'usurps' Congressional role
- Register of Copyrights Marybeth Peters says Google Books deal usurps Congress's constitutional duty to set copyright law. by Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-09-10
- Copyright Office's $52m system leads to 18-month backlog
- Copyright Office's $52m system leads to 18-month backlogCan't wait to get me....some of that gov't run health care!Agency Software WoesI work for another agency that also handles hundreds of thousands of applications a year and I can vouch that the software we have is also "prone to crashing" and we've...
- Discussion threads 2009-05-20
- Copyright Office's $52m system leads to 18-month backlog
- Here's some good Government IT. The Washington Post reports that the Copyright Office's "new $52 million electronic process" is responsible for creating an overwhelming logjam of copyright applications. Turnaround has slowed from six to 18 months and the Copyright Office is behind some 500,000 applications. The...
- Blog posts 2009-05-19
- Copyright Office provides exemptions to DMCA
- The new copyright laws this week issued by the Library of Congress Copyright Office is welcome news for film professors and cell phone users alike, as the new laws exempt certain groups from copyright restrictions, reports the The Pittsburgh Post-Gazette. The Library of Congress relaxed some aspects of the...
- Blog posts 2006-11-30
- Professors say DMCA stopped them from talking about Sony rootkit
- Computer science professor Ed Felten told the US Copyright Office that he and his colleagues had uncovered the Sony rootkit problem a month before news of it broke in November 2005 but he didn't. That's because under the Digital Millenium Copyright Act he could have been subject to prosection,...
- Blog posts 2006-03-31
- New Web copyright tool to exclude non-IE users
- New Web copyright tool to exclude non-IE usersGee, it's not like digging up a copy of IE is hard.Put this in the "well duh" catagory.Sounds like a lawsuit waiting to happenIf they don't allow for paper submissions, then certainly there will be those who are disenfranchised by the process, who...
- Discussion threads 2005-08-26
- Should Copyright Office require IE? Web creator speaks up
- At the beginning of August, the Copyright Office issued a request for comments on a small technical detail. It would be much easier for them, it seems, if their new system for preregistration of copyrights (a requirement under something called the Artists Rights and Theft Prevention Act,...
- Blog posts 2005-08-25
- Copyright Office poll: IE-only OK?
- Copyright Office poll: IE-only OK?Standards-based development is the keyCompanies who don't have developers smart enough to design standards-based, accessible systems and management smart enough to hire such developers should have no doors open to them for government business, business that by definition must be open and accessible to everyone. That...
- Discussion threads 2005-08-10
- Copyright Office pitches anti-P2P bill
- Copyright Office pitches anti-P2P billGood grief!They just don't give up. If they outlaw them, what, are they gonna put all us millions of users in prison? I'm not gonna let them bully me into dropping my P2P software! Hey, I can use the good three squares a day, and if...
- Discussion threads 2004-09-02
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- News to know: Windows 7; Google Dashboard; Driving while texting; Steve Jobs; Droid
- Here are today's notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET's around-the-Web tech coverage.: Sam Diaz: Ballmer: So far, Windows 7 sales are "fantastic" Dana Blankenhorn: What the Google Privacy Dashboard can...
- Blog posts 2009-11-06
- Oracle giving EU a hard time over Sun buy
- Oh my, must not up set the crazy EU.Pfttt....A small question why EU can stop or affect a deal inside usa ..... or is the deal is global ....Also we EU dont fork MYSQL into something purely EU ... and tell Oracle to go to hell. If the...
- Discussion threads 2009-11-04
- Stallman admits GPL flawed, proprietary licensing needed to pay for MySQL development
- You really believe that?Look at Red Hat. $5.1 Bln market cap and they're not making *any* money with free software? There is plenty of money out there for consulting services and support. Just ask IBM.Proprietary software is not religion.The problem with Sun was that they couldn't commit either...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-22
- mySQL founders fork on the post-Oracle future
- paranoia againi remember paranoia when sun bought openoffice and mysql...look they are still here!!!and oracle bought sun...people will be paranoid for some time, and than that story will go to oblivion just like any other paranoid story in open source world.Oracle must commit 1 billion for MySQLand also 5 billions...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-20
- Seeking a Stallman for open source
- Stallman is for OSS what Washington was for USAWe need more people like Stallman to liberate us from the M$ tirany not Benedict Arnolds like Icaza!We need to speek louder about M$ dirty deeds not to seek peace with the devil.Stallman is a liberalJust thought LinuxGeek ought to know that....
- Discussion threads 2009-10-09
- Eolas sues tech giants over Web technology
- It was just a matter of time.They didn't bleed enough from Microsoft so now they are going after other big names. No one is safe.Two words:Frivolous lawsuit.And they said......Eolas would only sue MS. :)Stupid and blind indeed. The Eolas patent is particularly bad, but all software patents need to...
- Discussion threads 2009-10-07
- OTOY's Jules Urbach: Cloud computing 'threatens' game consoles, Blu-ray, PCs [interview]
- Great in theory, not so great in the real worldThe problem allways comes down to the simple fact that even though something can be done with hardware and software, the user is the component not fully addressed.an XBox or Playstation hooked to a 32 inch television in the den or...
- Discussion threads 2009-09-11
- News to know: Microsoft; T-Mobile Cliq; MotoBlur; @facebook; Oracle
- Here are today’s notable headlines. You can get News To Know via email alert and RSS daily. For continuous updates see BNET’s around-the-Web tech coverage. Mary Jo Foley: Microsoft founds, funds a new open-source foundation Is Microsoft stalling on its GPL Linux drivers? ...
- Blog posts 2009-09-11
- Give Google a break!
- Yes, I said it. Give the kajillion-dollar company a break. This book scanning thing is getting completely out of hand. I want Google to make money. I want them to make lots of it because that means that all of the services I use for free...
- Blog posts 2009-09-10
- House Judiciary considers Google Books deal Thursday
- The House Judiciary Committee hears testimony from Google, Amazon, the Copyright Office and academics. by Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2009-09-09
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