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EU to extend copyright to 95 years

EU to extend copyright to 95 yearsCurious decisionI too cannot see the rationale behind this decision. One suspects Sir Cliff will have another hit soon: 'most downloaded torrent of 2009'.On another issue: be interested to hear your comments on Psystar's v Apple and the judge's reference to 'abuse of copyright...

Tags: Operational accounting, Mickey Mouse, Sonny Bono, income

Discussion threads 2009-02-13

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Scrabble ownership and the public domain

As reported recently, Facebook has been asked by Hasbro and Mattel to remove the "Scrabulous" game from its web site. Hasbro and Mattel jointly own the rights to the "Scrabble" game, something that most people have at some point in their lives played at least once. Scrabulous was a software...

Tags: Hasbro Inc., Mattel Inc., Domain, Scrabble, Games, Personal Technology, John Carroll

Blog posts 2008-01-17

FEC: Unaffiliated bloggers safe from campaign laws

Are partisan bloggers just independent blowhards or should they actually be monitored by the Federal Elections Commission? In two recent decisions, the FEC said bloggers don't need to register as political committees, Ars Technica reports. In one complaint, John Bambenek asked the FEC to find that the liberal blog...

Tags: Blog, Federal Election Commission, Blogger, ZDNet Government

Blog posts 2007-09-05

That which survives: The problem of data longevity

That which survives: The problem of data longevityRead until I fell asleepThe author has that effect on most people. A writer could boil down this long winded "blog" down to three or four lines.All of this Babble as an excuse to rantabotu Microsoft office. What a sad little...

Tags: Word processors, shareware, Corel WordPerfect

Discussion threads 2007-07-02

YouTube's fate rests on decade-old copyright law

YouTube's fate rests on decade-old copyright law"Directly""Directly" means charging a fee to see the videos.See how easy that is?:o)Should be fun to watchThis one will be good spectator sport watching. I think the obvious lesson, one which all can agree on, no matter which side you take in this...

Tags: Corporate communications, INTERNET, copyright law, YouTube Inc., copyright-owner, Viacom Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-03-13

The first political victory for open source

The first political victory for open sourceExactly what we have been saying all along![B]"1. Open source has [U]proven[/U] a business model exists that lets customers [U][I]own[/I][/U] software."[B]]:)Re: "In other words we weren't being nice to foreigners."Who are these "foreigners" of which you speak?Great to see this covered!I have been trying...

Tags: Leadership, Strategy, WIPO, treaty, IP, open source

Discussion threads 2007-02-28

The beginning of the end of DRM?

The beginning of the end of DRM?Jobs is such a liarTaken from his blog:[i]Apple has concluded that if it licenses FairPlay to others, it [b]can no longer guarantee[/b] to protect the music it licenses from the big four music companies.[/i]Fair enough. Of course, the measure of honesty in the statement...

Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, DVD, digital-rights management, Fairplay, music, job, guarentee, Apple Inc.

Discussion threads 2007-02-08

Court upholds copyright law on 'orphan works'

Court upholds copyright law on 'orphan works'It's a poor legacy that it leavessad Sony had such a hand in it, but politicians do not make such grand artists but better businessmen. Oh well, time to travel to a foreign country so you can perform Happy Birthday in a restaurant...

Tags: Big Business, useful Art, copyright law, U.S. Senate, Constitution

Discussion threads 2007-01-23

Open Source and the Law

This is the final installment of our FOSS series. Hope you enjoyed it.The success of open source business models will, in the future, lead to changes in the law. The current copyright and patent regimes date from the 1990s, when proprietary business models were at their height and the Internet...

Tags: open source, digital-rights management, regime

Blog posts 2006-08-25

Will certification legitimize adware?

Will certification legitimize adware?I agree to being annoyed at all hours of the day and nightLegitimate? Hardly.I don't think they understand teh Internets...Is it just blind ignorance, or baldfaced lying?Offering product A does not ensure that product b simply ceases to exist. Faulty cause and effect.Message has been deleted.What a...

Tags: Spyware, Spyware, adware & malware, Viruses and worms, SECURITY, Direct Revenue, adware, 180Solutions

Discussion threads 2005-11-17

Are Silicon Valley's power brokers political teenagers?

Are Silicon Valley's power brokers political teenagers?Journalists and technologists should learn to read the law for themselvesSilicon Valley may not need more lawyers, but it sure needs journalists and technologists who are less naive about the law. You need to assume that _every_ source is peddling self-serving misinformation,...

Tags: Sales force management, patent

Discussion threads 2005-07-23

China and intellectual property

China and intellectual propertyI would like to make a point..all developing nations have similar opinions on IP. In the early US, for example, we refused to acknowledge European IP laws when the US was founded. They did this to promote growth in our own country and technology. China does that...

Tags: Workforce management, Investment, Leadership, artiste, Is it Possible, absence, IS IT, intellectual property, retrospective

Discussion threads 2005-07-01