Tag: copyright
Electronic Frontier Foundation – Legal Attack on Internet Music Storage Threatens ‘Safe Harbor’ Rules for Online Businesses
Online storage and streaming service for music, gets in trouble with EMI.
TechCrunch – Google, Facebook To Microsoft’s Paul Allen: Your Argument Is Invalid
Yet another example of stupid and worthless software patents.
MarketWatch – Oracle sues Google over intellectual property
I don’t which to think that Oracle is just insane or stupid.
Electronic Frontier Foundation – EFF Wins New Legal Protections for Video Artists, Cell Phone Jailbreakers, and Unlockers
New exceptions to the DMCA, the most important of these has to be the ability to break DVD encryption for fair use.
Boing Boing – Brazil’s copyright law forbids using DRM to block fair use
Brazil has decent copyright laws that balance both copyright holders and normal individuals.
Anti-Piracy Group Says: ‘Child Porn Is Great’ Since It Gets Politicians To Block File Sharing Sites – Techdirt
Copyright groups apparently really like child porn because it’s easy to get a politician behind blocking it.
Apple Rejecting Apps With “Pad” In Title – 9 to 5 Mac
Apple rejecting apps that have the word “pad” in them.
When Using Open Source Makes You an Enemy of the State – guardian.co.uk
Cory Doctorow on the idea that open source destroys intellectual property.
Giving Up On Patents – ongoing
Software patents are a failure especially here in the US.
Consumers ‘confused by copyright’ – BBC News
Most consumers don’t even have a basic understanding of copyright laws.