August 14, 2005 - August 20, 2005 Archive
August 19, 2005
Convoluted Copyright Made Slightly Easier
Want to know whether something is in the public domain? Simply follow this six-deep, sixteen-node, seven-footnoted flowchart.
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Copyright
And that Diaper Pin - Definitely a Concealed Weapon
Babies as young as two years old are being identified and detained as potential terrorists by TSA officials just following the rules.
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Posted at 11:36 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Misc.
Muni Electricity, Muni Broadband
National Journal compares the fight for muni broadband with the fight for muni utilities in the 1900s.
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Posted at 11:36 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Infrastructure
Umm - Is She a Munition, Too?
ACM comments on the refusal to allow the researcher who broke SHA-1 into the US.
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Posted at 11:36 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Bad Laws
Fasten Your Seatbelts
Ed Hasbrouck on the future of Secure Flight.
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Posted at 11:36 AM by Danny O'Brien |
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Bad Laws
August 17, 2005
Global IP Control and Its Discontents
Nobel prize-winning economist Joe Stiglitz on how the US is exporting bad IP law to the developing world.
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Posted at 04:22 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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International IP
Her Day in Court
Defendant fights back against RIAA file-sharing suit, says that it was somebody else. RIAA somewhat dumbstruck.
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Posted at 04:21 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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P2P
Computer-Implemented Inventions at the European Patent Office
A pro-software patents org tries to get everyone's story straight.
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Posted at 04:21 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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Patents
An "Invention" So Non-Obvious, It's in the Name of the Device
ZDNet's David Berlind on the DVD player patent for, err, autoplaying a DVD.
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Posted at 04:21 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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Two Turntables, a Microphone - Oh, and an IP Attorney on Retainer
Glenn Reynolds on the poor fit between current copyright law and podcasters.
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Posted at 04:21 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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Bad Laws
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Copyright
August 15, 2005
Lessig, Vaidhyanathan in Georgia
Emory University is holding a symposium on Free Culture & the Digital Library on October 14th.
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Posted at 11:50 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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Free Culture
Patent "Harmonization" Off the Table at WIPO
Brazil, Argentina, and India want to widen the debate.
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Posted at 11:50 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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International IP
Terry Pratchett Responds to Harry Potter Ban
"ANYONE WHO READS A WORD OF IT before publication day will be MADE TO SIT IN THE CORNER." (Despite appearances, forum is Hungarian, not Trollish.)
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Posted at 11:50 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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Free Speech
"Copying Music Now Threatens Business like File-sharing Did"
AP reports on the sinister practice of "CD burning," and how the brave music industry is now seeking to control it.
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Posted at 11:50 PM by Danny O'Brien |
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Copyright
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DRM
