Friday, October 23, 2009
Sequoia Accidentally Reveals (Potentially Illegal?) E-Voting Code
For years, the big e-voting firms have refused to share their source code, repeatedly insisting all sorts of awful things would happen if the code was revealed.
Friday, October 2, 2009
Disney Appreciation Student Group Told They Can’t Get Together to Watch Disney Movies
Via Copycense, we learn that the students who formed the Disney Movie Appreciation Club at Washington University in St. Louis recently had to shut down the club due to threats of IP infringement, because the students were gathering together to watch the legally obtained movies, without getting a proper license for showing it to a larger group of people (rather than just a few people).
Friday, September 25, 2009
A Teaching Moment for Lily Allen [Update: And *Poof* Goes Her Blog]
In my last post about Lily Allen’s hypocrisy in uploading tons of songs without authorization, while saying it’s good to cut off internet access for regular uploaders, one of the commenters made a good point: we should use this as a teaching moment, to try to show Ms. Allen why her position is wrong, rather than focusing on calling her a hypocrite.
Tuesday, September 22, 2009
Nigeria Demands Apology From Sony for Mentioning Nigerian Fraud in a Commercial?
I have to admit that this story seems so bizarre that I’m not quite sure I believe it. A bunch of folks have been submitting the news that the Nigerian government is apparently so upset by a Sony Playstation commercial that it’s demanding an apology from Sony for allegedly “portraying Nigeria as a home of fraud where its citizens hardly do genuine business.”
Tuesday, September 1, 2009
NFL Doesn’t Get It: Blocking Fans Doesn’t Make Them Like Teams Any More
I knew this was common years ago, but I honestly had no clue that modern sports leagues were so clueless as to think that it made sense to blackout local TV broadcasting if the attendance at the event wasn’t a sell-out.
Friday, August 28, 2009
Are Copyright Holders Seeding Own Files to Find, Sue Downloaders?
Last year, we talked about some language in a contract being used by a company that was supposedly trying to help copyright holders track down content being shared online, for the purpose of sending out threatening “pre-settlement” letters.
Monday, August 24, 2009
Looks Like IP Is About to Slow Down Innovation in Clean Tech
Plenty of studies have shown, over and over again, that in an emerging market, the last thing you want is patent protection.
Tuesday, August 4, 2009
Ripped Off News? Or Spreading The News?
It appears that some (certainly not all) in the mainstream press still seems to have problems understanding the value of getting people to talk about what they reported on.
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
Is Streaming Really Replacing Downloading?
Lots of attention is being paid today to an article in the Guardian about a new study claiming that illegal file sharing has collapsed in the UK and is being replaced by streaming music found on YouTube and through services like Spotify.
Tuesday, June 23, 2009
ASCAP Now Claiming That Your Mobile Phone Ringing Is A Public Performance
Ah, those collection societies just never learn, do they?
Tuesday, June 16, 2009
Don’t Underestimate The Value Of Exposure
The NY Times is running an article about a bunch of illustrators complaining that Google offered to promote their work for free as special skins for its Chrome browser.
Thursday, May 28, 2009
Sony Pictures CEO: The Internet Is Still Bad
A week and a half ago, Sony Pictures CEO Michael Lynton made some news for saying that nothing good had come from the internet, period.
Thursday, April 16, 2009
Want to Know Why Newspapers Are Dying? Maureen Dowd Shows Us.
In her recent New York Times op-ed, Maureen Dowd takes aim at Google, blaming it for the sorry state of the newspaper industry. Perhaps in hopes of winning people over to the newspapers’ side in the argument over how much Google should be profiting from their content, Dowd spends a lot of the article attempting to make the reader fear Google, trying to paint the company as anti-privacy and bent on “world domination.”
Friday, April 10, 2009
Thinking About a National Broadband Plan
When we first heard about President Obama’s “broadband” stimulus, we worried that it was nothing more than a boondoggle for incumbents rather than an actual broadband plan.
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