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12:25 am EST, Dec 11, 2003 |
I am shocked to find veriscary.com unregistered. I am further shocked to find that Google contains exactly zero results for the search term VeriScary. |
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Patents: Idea for Online Networking Brings Two Entrepreneurs Together |
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| Topic: Intellectual Property |
9:47 am EST, Dec 1, 2003 |
The last few months have brought a flurry of new Web sites devoted to social networking -- that is, helping people use friends of friends to do such things as find better dates or more lucrative jobs. Now, as some industry insiders rush to protect their intellectual property in this arena, others are murmuring about an impending patent war that they expect to bring an industry shakeout. You might want to be sitting down before you follow this link. Patents: Idea for Online Networking Brings Two Entrepreneurs Together |
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RE: Mac Rumors: QTFairUse - iTunes Digital Rights Management (DRM) Circumvented? |
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| Topic: Intellectual Property |
2:22 am EST, Nov 30, 2003 |
Rattle wrote:
] Jeremy wrote:
] ] If ever you find yourself inclined to try QTFairUse, just ask:
] ] What Would Bill Joy Do?
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] Troll! :) I certainly made it seem that way, but actually, no. I was thinking more along the lines of what I quoted from his recent Wired interview: "I try to work on things that won't happen unless I do them. My goal is to do great things." If you have time, and if you have talent, you can do anything. Why waste both on trivial things that anyone could do? RE: Mac Rumors: QTFairUse - iTunes Digital Rights Management (DRM) Circumvented? |
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RE: Mac Rumors: QTFairUse - iTunes Digital Rights Management (DRM) Circumvented? |
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| Topic: Intellectual Property |
12:06 am EST, Nov 29, 2003 |
Rattle wrote:
] Jon Johansen (of DeCSS fame) has released code
] that strips DRM from Apple ACC audio format.
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] It will be interesting to see how Apple reacts. Umm ... I read this news earlier and didn't post about it. My reaction was: so what? I suspect Apple's will be the same. Why does this matter? Aside from perhaps being needlessly clever, what is new here? You can already burn a CD full of iTunes and then rip it right back. Voila. You don't even have to leave iTunes to do this. This seems pointless. Please, please, let's not bicker and argue about the finer points of concatenated codecs. If you are content with playing AAC from your PowerBook, then you are not an audiophile. Jon Johansen and Bruce Schneier should have lunch. Maybe they could start a project. I'll leave it to Bill Joy to make them stop it. If ever you find yourself inclined to try QTFairUse, just ask: What Would Bill Joy Do? RE: Mac Rumors: QTFairUse - iTunes Digital Rights Management (DRM) Circumvented? |
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| Topic: Intellectual Property |
1:57 am EST, Nov 4, 2003 |
Some clever students come up with a way for everyone on campus to listen to free music whenever they want -- and it's totally legal. Too good to be true? You already know the answer. Yet another case of "do what I mean, not what I say", and the recording industry digs itself another foot into the grave. Apparently, the founding fathers did not intend for copyright to protect the public, nor to protect the artists, but rather to protect a particular business model. Progress be damned! Out Like a LAMP |
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Digital rights management and the breakdown of social norms |
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| Topic: Intellectual Property |
11:13 pm EST, Nov 3, 2003 |
At the centre of the protection of intellectual property rights (IPRs) is a long history of political bargains struck between private rights to reward and the social benefit of information/knowledge diffusion. The historical dynamic of politics in this policy area has been to expand the rights of owners while circumscribing the public realm of information and knowledge. In recent decades the public domain has become merely a residual, all that is left when all other rights (as constructed by IPRs) have been exercised. The advent of digital rights management (DRM) technologies has disturbed a reasonably legitimate politico-legal settlement over "fair use," challenging the existing balance between the rights of "creators" and the interests of users. The breakdown of the norms underpinning IPRs has prompted renewed debate regarding their legitimacy. Although it is technological change that has enhanced not only the ability to copy but also the potential to control the distribution of content, this paper suggests that this argument will not be won or lost in the realm of technology. Rather, new technologies return the question of the control of knowledge and information (content) to the realm of politics. Digital rights management and the breakdown of social norms |
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Ban on Videos for Oscar Voters May Be Lifted |
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| Topic: Intellectual Property |
8:27 am EDT, Oct 22, 2003 |
Jack Valenti is expected to reverse an edict barring studios from sending videos of their films to Academy Award voters. The ban, instituted three weeks ago as an anti-piracy measure, touched off a revolt in Hollywood. The studios have yet to decide [on a watermarking technology]. Under the current discussions, only encoded videotapes would be distributed for screening purposes. Any deal is days away and could still fall apart ... a stopgap and would most likely be changed next year. ... misbehaving members would risk expulsion ... Ban on Videos for Oscar Voters May Be Lifted |
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Rules would require recorders to encrypt TV shows |
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| Topic: Intellectual Property |
2:55 pm EDT, Oct 18, 2003 |
Federal regulators this month are expected to adopt controversial rules requiring new technology in electronics products to prevent digital TV shows from being traded on the Internet the way some music is shared today. Hollywood frets that if top-quality copies of shows can be snared online, producers won't be able to sell them in syndication or overseas. "Syndication" is broken. There is no "fix." Move on. Rules would require recorders to encrypt TV shows |
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Copyright and authors | First Monday |
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| Topic: Intellectual Property |
10:47 pm EDT, Oct 9, 2003 |
For the past several hundred years, publishers have promoted a simplistic view of copyright. Copyright is a matter of fairness to authors, they argue. Authors own their creations and therefore should be free to control them. But the history of copyright and its underlying philosophy contradicts that simple view. Copyright is not about fairness to authors; copyright is about balancing interests, including the interest of the public. This article provides a (very!) brief history of copyright and its philosophy in order to show that the publishers' simple view is inaccurate, and suggests that understanding copyright's nature is the first step to solve the problems of copyright in the modern world. Copyright and authors | First Monday |
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Beyond File-Sharing, a Nation of Copiers |
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| Topic: Intellectual Property |
10:51 am EDT, Sep 14, 2003 |
Of more than 18,000 students surveyed, 38 percent said they had lifted material from the Internet for use in papers in the last year. 44 percent said they considered this sampling no big deal. "I'm not sure it's shifted values yet, but for a lot of students, it's heading in that direction." In fact, for many people, that shift has already come. ... In a nation that flaunts its capacities to produce and consume, much of the culture's heat now lies with the ability to cut, paste, clip, sample, quote, recycle, customize and recirculate. Beyond File-Sharing, a Nation of Copiers |
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