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- Podcaster loses cybersquat of 'Simpsons Movie' site
- Podcaster loses cybersquat of 'Simpsons Movie' siteCybersquatting is a common problemIn this case a relatively small guy wronged a very big entity and lost. In my experience, I ‘backordered’ a domain with Godaddy, didn't get it, but was contacted by BuyDomains.com and offered to domain for $10,000. I should never...
- Tags: Podcaster, Simpsons Movie, domain, WIPO, Cybersquatting
- Discussion threads 2007-07-25
- 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 first political victory for open source
- The WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organization, logo at right) Development Agenda is usually a great way to put folks to sleep, but this week it represents what may be the first political victory for open source.Negotiators in Switzerland have agreed on 24 points nominally aimed at making Intellectual Property issues...
- Tags: management, General, Legal, Government, mass market, publishing
- Blog posts 2007-02-28
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- Psystar's Thermopylae won't end Apple's clone nightmare
- Apple may win the battle, but they'll lose the war, eventually. Well, that was predictable, really. A small startup in Florida decides to go make Mac clones, and surprise, surprise, Apple starts legal proceedings and unleashes the might of...
- Tags: Apple Macintosh, Apple Inc., Psystar, Apple Mac OS X, Apple Mac OS, Virtualization, Operating Systems, Desktops, Software, Hardware, Jason Perlow
- Blog posts 2008-07-16
- Is Canada's new copyright law a northern DMCA?
- Is Canada's new copyright law a northern DMCA?just a technicality......but this isn't law in Canada, yet. It's just a bill at this point. Carry on...it will never beThis farce of a bill is the single most anti-consumer thing i ever saw in Canada.You can copy legally own media...
- Tags: Digital media, Consumer electronics, DVD, northern DMCA, IS Canada, new Copyright Law, DMCA, copyright law
- Discussion threads 2008-06-13
- Industrial Property Office Automates Information Systems to Support Czech E-Government Drive
- The Industrial Property Office wanted to update and accelerate paper-based processing of requests to support e-government efforts and automate processes. The challenge was to unify intellectual property information systems and connect customers to international networks for patent and trademark information exchange, including the European Patent Office EPO, World Intellectual Property...
- Tags: Information System, Oracle Corp., Microsoft Office, E-government, Portals, Intellectual Property, Application Servers, Web Technology, Government, Internet, Research & Development, Business Operations, Enterprise Software, Software
- Case studies 2008-04-01
- Is McAfee just asking for a lawsuit?
- Is McAfee just asking for a lawsuit?They should be suedover the quality of their product. About 7 years back a mcafee upgrade all but brought my users to a halt. There tech support was worthless. Changing products solved the problem. For their attitude and stupidity I won't use any of...
- Tags: Noone, McAfee Inc., open source, GPL
- Discussion threads 2008-01-08
- Cruising in our cities
- If you drive a car in many European cities, I bet you're not always happy to see the traffic lights stopping you. And you're not alone: environmentalists agree with you -- but for other reasons. As traffic flows account for about one-third of global energy consumption, better control systems for...
- Tags: Network, Traffic Light, Transportation, Strategy, Management, Roland Piquepaille
- Blog posts 2007-11-18
- Bush Administration tells Internet advocates to vote Democratic
- Bush Administration tells Internet advocates to vote DemocraticWhat in the world makes ........ you think it would be any different with a Democratic Whitehouse. You Bush haters are so blinded by that hatred you can't see the truth when it is right in front of your face. The...
- Tags: Net Neutrality, Bush Administration, Internet
- Discussion threads 2007-09-07
- GPLv3 Myth #3: GPL forbids DRM
- GPLv3 Myth #3: GPL forbids DRMActually, it is the business ecosystem that forbids DRMMS doesn't want DRM on Linux. They allowed it on BSD Apple, so obviously coding to Linux is trivial. MS keeps bending over backward to be the platform of choice for all DRMed content and...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Digital media, digital-rights management, GPLv3, software, GPL
- Discussion threads 2007-07-30
- GPLv3 Myth #3: GPL forbids DRM
- In our continuing series on the latest version of the world's most popular and least understood free/open source license, today we look at a controversial subject: Digital Rights Management DRM. My colleague David Berlind has another name for DRM: Content, Restriction, Annulment, and Protection CRAP.Disclaimer: This information was culled from...
- Tags: Programming, Licenses, Linux, GPLv3 Myths, General, Community, Commercial
- Blog posts 2007-07-30
- FCC fights the open source concept
- FCC fights the open source conceptAre you referring to this"From the FCC Notice:[i]The Commission hereby states that it is its policy, consistent with the intent of Cognitive Radio Report and Order and Cisco's request, that manufacturers should not intentionally make the distinctive elements that implement that manufacturer's particular security measures...
- Tags: Federal government, Advertising & Promotion, FLOSS, radio, FCC, open source, software, open source concept, duck
- Discussion threads 2007-07-06
- Obligation at bottom of open source incline
- Obligation at bottom of open source inclineThe difference is......that the freedom resides in the software, not in the person using it. I'm not "free" to do whatever I want with the software; the software is "free" from any control by me. Some might call that anthropomorphism - attributing a human...
- Tags: UNIX, knowledge, open source, software, GPL
- Discussion threads 2007-05-25
- Cancer therapy without side-effects?
- Most of you know at least one person who has been affected by cancer and treated by chemotherapy, suffering from side-effects such as hair loss or nausea. This is because chemotherapy attacks both healthy and unhealthy cells in the whole body. Now, Australian researchers are using nanotechnology to offer chemotherapy...
- Tags: Health &, Medicine, Nanotechnology, Science &, Nature
- Blog posts 2007-05-14
- Will defendant Google bite the copyright infringement bullet?
- Will defendant Google bite the copyright infringement bullet?Do No EvilI always through the boys who run google were arrogant and shallow in the social sense. Like street thugs they think that whatever they want they can have just because they say so. They have helped the communists government...
- Tags: Digital media, DMCA, Viacom Inc., Google Inc.
- Discussion threads 2007-03-13
- New Net radio rules draw fire on Capitol Hill
- New Net radio rules draw fire on Capitol HillPayola still rules the dayClearly the threat of the internet is that buyers will be exposed to something other than what the RIAA companies want them to hear. This must be crushed at all costs. Sure, in the long run...
- Tags: Advertising & Promotion, radio rule, New Net, radio
- Discussion threads 2007-03-07
- PatentDownloader (zip)
- Downloads patent specifications from JPO Japanese Patent, USPTO US Patent and WIPO PCT and saves as RTFD or save as PDF file. Also analyzes specifications and creates reference character list automatically.
- Tags: Specification
- Software downloads 2006-10-10
- Not thy commenter's keeper
- Based on the reactions of many of those who attended oral argument before the California Supreme Court in Barrett v. Rosenthal, indications are strong that the Court will come down on the side of protecting those who provide a platform for, but do not author or edit, third party comments...
- Tags: Section 230
- Blog posts 2006-09-09
- Open source threatened by judicial activism
- Open source threatened by judicial activismPatent NeuralityMicrosoft wants "net neutrality" so shouldn't it be pusing for "patent neutrality?"What's good for the goose is good for the gander!Microsoft using EFFI am sure that Microsoft is having a good laugh at their ability to use EFF and the anti-software patent crowd to...
- Tags: open source, Microsoft Corp., prior art, patent, Electronic Frontier Foundation
- Discussion threads 2006-08-25
- Yuck. Chocolate never tasted this C.R.A.P-py
- Yuck. Chocolate never tasted this C.R.A.P-pyMore info hereWired has a blog entry on the phone. Much like Verizon's decision to cripple bluetooth and charge you $15 a month to get photos off of your RAZR, they're making this phone less than usable as well:http://blog.wired.com/music/index.blog?entry_id=1530757So then be a big boy...
- Tags: Digital rights management (DRM), Piracy, Digital media, DMCA, Wired Inc., Verizon Communications Inc., CopyWrite
- Discussion threads 2006-08-01
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