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- Court: Open source licenses are copyright licenses
- Open source licenses create a condition on the scope of the license – and thus expose violators to injunctions under copyright law – the Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit ruled yesterday. The decision in Jacobsen v. Katzer PDF reverses a District Court holding that the a violation...
- Tags: License, Radcliffe, Open Source, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-08-14
- Court clarifies open source copyright: Key excerpts for the enterprise
- It's a big day for open source software as a U.S. District Appeals Court ruled that just because a developer gave code away for free doesn't mean it's not copyright protected. The win, which stemmed from a railroad hobbyist spat, was praised by Stanford's Lawrence Lessig. The...
- Tags: Eleventh Circuit, Open Source, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2008-08-14
- News to know: Open source court victory; Surveillance; SAP; VMware
- Notable headlines: Tom Steinert-Threlkeld: Police Surveillance: Go Snoop, Yourself Olympics Victor: NBC, Over YouTube Lessig blog: Huge and important news: free licenses upheld NYT: Ruling Is a Victory for Supporters of Free Software Adrian Kingsley-Hughes:...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, Larry Dignan, Open Source, SAP AG, Apple Inc., VMware Inc., Defcon, 3G, Notebooks, Wireless, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets
- Blog posts 2008-08-14
- The government has an "iPatriot Act" ready for Internet control
- My video of Lawrence Lessig, a law professor at Stanford University talking about an "iPatriot Act" has received a lot of views thanks to a post on the top blog site Boing Boing. Lawrence Lessig on the coming "i-Patriot Act" - Boing Boing I've taken out an...
- Tags: professor, boing boing, video, corporate communications, government, internet, blogging, vertical industries, marketing, enterprise software, software, tom foremski
- Blog posts 2008-08-07
- Cerf's call for simple pricing: Net Neutrality all over again
- Cerf's call for simple pricing: Net Neutrality all over againCerf's call for simple pricing: Net Neutrality all over again[i]Rather than a volume cap, I suggest the introduction of transmission rate caps, which would allow users to purchase access to the Internet at a given minimum data rate and be free...
- Tags: Pricing, TELECOMMUNICATIONS, NETWORKING, Net Neutrality, Vint Cerf, simple pricing, pricing strategy, Internet, Cerf, network
- Discussion threads 2008-08-05
- A glimpse into the future of the Internet
- The best panel I saw at the recent Fortune Brainstorm conference was "2018: Life on the net." The moderator was Quincy Smith, CEO of CBS Interactive. On the podium was Lawrence Lessig, professor of Law at Stanford Law School, Joichi Ito, CEO of Creative Commons and Chairman of Six Apart...
- Tags: Panel, CEO, Internet, Corporate Communications, Marketing, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-07-30
- Joichi Ito - from venture capitalist to venture communist?
- I've become a big fan of Joichi Ito CEO Creative Commons, Chairman of Six Apart after seeing him speak on a panel at the recent Fortune Brainstorm conference. In a room full of many smart people, Mr Ito is one of the smartest. Here is a clip...
- Tags: Mr., Venture Capital, Investment, Finance, Financing Startups, Tom Foremski
- Blog posts 2008-07-23
- Prohibition 2.0
- Sunday's installment of To the Best of Our Knowledge features an interview with Larry Lessig, back at least briefly it seems, on the Re/Mix wars. One of his main themes in that interview was quite apropos of a comment on my post about the mom suing Universal over take-down...
- Tags: Criminal, Larry Lessig, Intellectual Property, Research & Development, Business Operations, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- Conference for media reform
- Free Press hosts the National Conference for Media Reform, June 6-8 in Minneapolis. From the press release: We're at an important point in the history of the media -- a point where the decentralized Internet and the centralized media are finally meeting head on," said...
- Tags: Media, Conference, Free Press, Advertising & Promotion, Marketing, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-27
- Viacom v Google: Threat to the Net -- or just Google?
- The re-do of Viacom's $1 billion lawsuit against Google for alleged infringement of copyright on YouTube is moving forward as Google filed an answer to Viacom's redrafted complaint. The original suit was filed last year but Viacom re-filed the complaint last month. Based on the information in this AP...
- Tags: Google Inc., DMCA, Viacom Inc., Internet, Digital Media, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-27
- The panelist's nightmare
- The panelist's nightmareTuxedo and brown shoesThat pretty much sucks. What was that old "Lonesome George" Gobel quip to Johnny Carson from years back, after following Bob Hope and Dean Martin on the Tonight Show: "Did you ever get the feeling that the world was a tuxedo and you were a...
- Tags: Federal government, Larry Lessig, FCC, panelist
- Discussion threads 2008-05-22
- News to know: Hactivists; XO-2 laptop; HP; Virtualization
- Notable headlines: Dancho Danchev: Pro-Serbian hacktivists attacking Albanian web sites Over 1.5 million pages affected by the recent SQL injection attacks DoS Attacks Using SQL Wildcards Revealed Ryan Naraine: Secunia finds 'highly critical' Foxit Reader Flaw Are you wary of...
- Tags: Larry Dignan, Hewlett-Packard Co., Virtualization, Network, Microsoft Corp., Twitter, Laptop Computer, One Laptop Per Child Project, Sales Strategy, Ultramobile PCs (UMPCs), Microsoft Windows Vista (Longhorn), Sales Force Management, Sales, Tablets, Hardware, Notebooks & Tablets, Emerging Technologies, Operating Systems, Microsoft Windows, Software
- Blog posts 2008-05-21
- Lessig: Bill to fix orphaned works is 'unfair and unwise'
- Larry Lessig championed the need to fix copyright law with regard to "orphan works" – those works that are covered by copyright but whose owners are unknown. He was a guiding force behind the Internet Archive's 2004 suit to get the courts to address the issue. (See Free the...
- Tags: Larry Lessig, Work, Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-05-21
- Change-Congress, an open source strategy for political reform
- Lawrence Lessig, known for his leadership on IP reform and the illfated Eldred v. Ashcroft decision, launched his latest project, Change-Congress at the National Press Club on Thursday. Partnering with Joe Trippi formerly of the Dean and Edwards campaigns, Lessig's strategy will be a "bi-partisan, web-based effort to leverage and...
- Tags: Open Source, Candidate, Change-Congress, Wiki, Strategy, Online Communications, Management, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-03-23
- FCC might hold second Comcast hearing at Stanford
- ValleyWag is reporting that the FCC may hold a second hearing into Comcast's network management practices -- as payback for packing the room at Harvard earlier this week. The blog claims to know: The FCC will take no official action against Comcast over the held seats, but...
- Tags: FCC, Comcast Corp., Stanford, ValleyWag, Federal Government, Network Administration, Networking, Government, Richard Koman
- Blog posts 2008-02-28
- Attn. Stanford students, Palo Alto street peeps: FCC Comcast Torrent-thwart hearing to Stanford?
- Valleywag is hearing that a "do-over" of yesterday's net neutrality-overlayed FCC hearing about Comcast's thwarting of Torrent packets may be headed to the campus of Stanford University in Palo Alto. I wonder how happy Comcash will be to face the citizenry's champion of...
- Tags: FCC, Comcast Corp., Stanford, Palo Alto, Valleywag, Federal Government, Government, Russell Shaw
- Blog posts 2008-02-27
- Lawrence Lessig, congresscritter nominee
- TWiL regular John Palfrey announced a great idea last week while we were recording the forthcoming episode: a Facebook group drafting Professor Lessig for a recently vacated Congressional seat. Says John, "It's high time we had our first true Free Culture candidate for public...
- Tags: Ars Technica, Facebook, Professor, Web Site Development, Web Technology, Channel Management, Internet, Marketing, Denise Howell
- Blog posts 2008-02-18
- Scrabble ownership and the public domain
- Scrabble ownership and the public domainBe careful JohnYou're starting to channel Lawrence Lessig.Is "2067" a typo?1993 + 70 = 2063Or is it not as simple as that?Incentives to CreateGood post, John. Modern copyright law is simply ludicrous. When originally enacted, copyrights were intended to give incentives to creators and balance...
- Tags: Sales force management, grandchildren, incentive
- Discussion threads 2008-01-17
- News to know: IE 8 anticipation; LiveJournal sold; Facebook's fumble
- Notable headlines: Mary Jo Foley: Users clamoring again for an Internet Explorer 8 update. Ryan Naraine: IE vs Firefox: Microsoft crunches security numbers. Dan Farber: Facebook: The canary in the social networking coal mine. Techmeme. CA: Facebook's Misrepresentation of Beacon's Threat to Privacy:...
- Tags: Google Inc., Microsoft Office 2007, Facebook, Microsoft Internet Explorer, Microsoft Corp., Six Apart Ltd., LiveJournal, One Laptop Per Child Project, Motorola Inc., Fuel Cells, Web Browsers, Emerging Technologies, Internet, Larry Dignan
- Blog posts 2007-12-03
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