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Copyright in the News 13 Aug 2012 | 07:47 pm
LendInk fiasco keeps rights management issue burning; Most don’t realize when you buy an e-book that you cannot resell it, and in the majority of cases can’t even lend it to a friend because of copyri...
Copyright in the News 7 Aug 2012 | 07:49 pm
Posner: Sharing links isn’t copyright infringement Posner’s opinion is a victory for technology. The judge, writing for a three-judge appellate panel that also included judges Joel Flaum and Diane Woo...
An Open Invitation 20 Mar 2012 | 11:56 pm
I respectfully decline the invitation to join your hallucination. Scott Adams An invitation to a wedding invokes more trouble than a summons to a police court. William Feather Timeo Danaos et dona...
Sellutions: Copyright and Common Sense 18 Jan 2012 | 03:25 am
“Common sense is not so common.” ― Voltaire “Don’t find fault, find a remedy; anybody can complain” ― Henry Ford Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature’s inexorable imperative. ― H. G. Wells I ...
2011: When IP was King 30 Dec 2011 | 03:39 am
2011: The Year Intellectual Property Trumped Civil Liberties http://t.co/TyBWYzvm “Any civil liberties agenda was a complete non-starter with Congress and the Obama administration,” said Cindy Cohn,...
Copyright: Sword Not Shield 1 Dec 2011 | 03:06 am
The article below contains several examples of copyright wrongfully employed to either: (1.) silence critics; or (2) attempt to drum competitors out of business by making false accusations. I had a...
American Internet Policy: Made in China? 19 Nov 2011 | 03:44 am
A recent study sponsored by Columbia University’s The American Assembly project revealed the prevailing American attitude towards copyright infringement. The article can be found at this link http:...
Digital Reselling. Remember (1) You Don’t Own Anything; and (2) Have to Buy Everything From Me. 16 Nov 2011 | 03:32 am
The name of the article in thin the New York Times is: Reselling of Music Files Is Contested – http://nyti.ms/t5vGyM Songs on the service, which is based in Cambridge, Mass., cost 79 cents, as mu...
DVD Streaming, U.S. Marshals, and E-parasites. Oh my! 3 Nov 2011 | 11:55 pm
Didn’t content owners learn anything from the MP3 player? Give people what they want, and charge them a fair price for it. Make lots of money. No, instead lets desperately cling to the way things ...
SOPA and PIPA: TWIN TROUBLE 29 Oct 2011 | 12:06 am
This Congress seems determined to declare war on free speech. All you will need is money to remove opinions that are disagreeable or unflattering. While the rationale for the bill is correct, the ...
