Over 1400 German celebrities and artists have signed an open letter protesting a new political culture that they believe sanctions the "theft of intellectual property" on the internet. 
I mentioned yesterday that as part of the Copyright Office's 3-year DMCA exemption hearings, the office would hear arguments on whether to permit cracking the. New unskippable copyright warnings coming to Blu-ray discs. Fans of being treated like copyright violators will enjoy new measures being taken to protect movies from piracy.
The pirates will always be able to break the existing systems. The only thing a new control system does is delay the enjoyment of the media by the honest user andthrows down the proverbial gauntlet in front of an army of hackers. 
Is Obama's Patent Reform Hurting American Small BusinessesHuffington PostIt was a bill reforming the patent laws called the America Invents Act and in his nationally televised address to Congress on September 8, President Obama used it as an...
Interesting take on one side of this issue. Who out there sees the other side? 
Apple reportedly offered Proview $16 million to settle the companies' ongoing legal dispute over the iPad name, but Proview rejected the offer, Chinese. Suits and countersuits are over with a decision by the 6th U.S. Circuit of Appeals giving Maker’s Mark bourbon the right to enforce its trademark on the red dripping wax seal on its bottles. Check out the court papers here. Earlier this week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit brought life back to Rosetta Stone’s trademark infringement case against Google. 
Portfolio.com (blog)Are Intellectual Property and National Security Really Linked?
A scary thought. 
1) For example, let's say a designer creates a brochure for you using a stock image. Your designer has to purchase specific rights to use that image in your brochure. The price of the stock imagery is based upon the type of ... 
Four hours after yesterday's pronouncement of a Motorola v. Apple ruling, the Mannheim Regional Court held an Apple v. 
Earlier this week I participated in the Berkeley Center for Law and Technology Symposium on Orphan Works and Mass Digitization. I was part of a panel devoted to various solutions to the problem. Here is my presentation. 
See the scoop on the Patent Wars article for my take on this insanity. 
PUBLISHING obscure academic journals is that rare thing in the media industry: a licence to print money.
Interesting take on freedom of knowledge. I know that people should be paid for their efforts, but then they should also pay for the efforts of others. It's one thing if I write a paper for a journal for the enrichment of all, but there should always be a downward-paying scheme to reimburse us (the academics) for writing the articles.
I think my greatest concern is not that the journals cost money, but that the academics writing the articles don't get compensated. Goes right along the same logic of patents and copyrights: if I create something but I don't ever get compensation for it, then eventually, I won't have the desire to create anymore. This leads to stagnation of society.
We don't want society to stagnate now, do we? |
Russia's most popular social network vKontakte has lost an appeal against an earlier verdict that found it breaching copyright laws. 
The U.S. Copyright Office is considering allowing jailbreaking of devices such as mobile phones, game consoles, tablets and more. "The current preparatory process lacks the transparency, openness of process, and inclusiveness of all relevant stakeholders that are imperative under commitments made at the World Summit on Information Society (WSIS). We ask that the Secretary-General, the Council Working Group, and Member States work to resolve these process deficiencies in several concrete ways." 
Software entrepreneur Aaron Greenspan claims not only to have been the original inventor of Facebook.
Greenspan becomes troll and starts grasping at straws. Perfect 10's many, many critics say its Tumblr suit is the latest gambit by a notorious copyright troll. But CEO Norman Zada says he's standing up for the rights of copyright holders too small, poor or scared to stand up for ... Steht die Abschaffung des Urheberrechts unmittelbar bevor? Müssen Künstler des Internets wegen bald von Almosen leben?
Makes no sense why the Pirate-party wants to abolish copyright entirely... do they think that art grows on trees and you can jsut take everything? If they get their way, then NO ONE will make anything for them to steal anymore, because then no one can make money doing it. 
Toronto StarAuthors Smile If Amazon Is the Publisher, Bezos SaysForbesA battle is raging between New York's major publishers and Amazon.com about the future of the book business.
I like Amazon too. The greatest international threat today is not to military targets or critical infrastructure, according to Estonian President Toomas Hendrick Ilves. So just what does have the bull's-eye on its chest?
The thing about the end of Agency is that it's not over. That is to say that the rearguard action by the legacy publishing establishment isn't finished.
Focuses on the Big Six losing out to digital media. The Age of the Giants is coming to an end - thankfully. 
The story behind the making of Mary Poppins is to be told in a Hollywood film with Emma Thompson earmarked as Pamela Travers, the author who signed away the rights to Walt Disney only to regret it.
This is what happens when you sign away your rights, but keep your royalties... you lose the right to complain if they change it, but you become a bazillionaire.
Where's the problem? 
New Intellectual Property Office and Procedures in Afghanistan - ag-IP-news Agency http://t.co/vneaR3xJ...
Evidence that Afghanistan is rebuilding. 
The Internet Age is becoming as known for patent litigation as it is for online innovation.
Holy moley. All those geeky kids on the playground in grade school may have aged, but they sure as heck haven't grown up. This is greed at its finest - and I thought hedge funds were bad.
In a nutshell, it used to be if your company is failing, you find out why, stop doing that, and go out and innovate to create new business. Now, if your company is failing, your playground logic kicks in, saying "Poor me, I have a stupid toy and no friends to play with. Look, that kid over there has a cool-looking toy and he's got lots of friends (and money). I think I'll go steal his toy so I'll have it and all his friends."
So, this is now the new "get-rich-quick" scheme for the big corporates. Sue everyone for their toys. |
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