Archives for the 'ip' Category
Prince, sans the Revolution
Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
Techcrunch follows up on Prince’s rather eccentric recent moves to defend intellectual property that may or may not be his. [Yes, I know how surprising it is to see the words "Prince" and "eccentric" in the same sentence, just remember that you heard it here first.]
Here’s the thing: it seems wildly inaccurate to [...]
I’d be happier if I believed this was really the end…
Friday, September 14th, 2007
SCO files for Chapter 11.
When Social Software Works
Monday, May 21st, 2007
Within 24 hours of the publication of Mark Helprin’s op-ed on perpetual copyright from yesterday’s Sunday New York Times, a wiki page on Larry Lessig’s site, intended to facilitate the collective authorship of a rebuttal to the piece, is well underway.
Sometimes social software works the way you want it to.
Microsoft’s Patent Strategy: Now It Can Be Revealed
Tuesday, May 15th, 2007
From Slashdot:
CptRevelation writes “Microsoft has released more detailed information on the patents supposedly in breach by the open-source community. Despite their accusations of infringement, they state they would rather do licensing deals instead of any legal action. [...]”
bzzt…bzzzt…automatic translation system now online…
GraspingTheObvious writes “Microsoft has released more detailed information on the patents supposedly in breach [...]
DRM is dead. No, wait…long live DRM.
Monday, February 26th, 2007
How shocked am I that EMI’s talks with online music sellers regarding DRM-free music distribution have sputtered out for the time being?
Not very. You?
A little later: Yes, I’ve seen the Harvey Danger essay. Admirable, but a self-release from a relatively obscure band is only barely relevant when discussing the timeframe for the [...]
Rainbows, My Little Pony Crack Pipes, and DRM-Free Major Label Downloads
Wednesday, February 7th, 2007
If you don’t read or subscribe to Daring Fireball, you should. Go now. Enjoy. Today Gruber offers up a little exegesis of Jobs’ Thoughts on Music (I’ve started to suspect that the blogging police will come around and pull the credentials of any blogger who doesn’t at least link to Jobs’ essay, [...]
Lunchtime IP Musings: one down, 3,808 to go?
Monday, January 29th, 2007
Slashdot today informs me that Microsoft has “retracted their recent controversial patent application”.
[Hands up, everybody who read that sentence and thought "wait, which recent controversial patent application? I've lost track...is that the RSS thing or one of the other ones?" ]
So no, it wasn’t the RSS thing, and to be blunt, neither you nor I [...]
Two Great Tastes That Taste Great Together
Wednesday, January 24th, 2007
Man, oh, man — I can’t wait for this to hit Slashdot.
January 18, 2007 was apparently intellectual-property-a-go-go day for the USPTO: it brings us published patent applications from Microsoft (#20070016532 – Digital application operating according to aggregation of plurality of licenses) and IBM (#20070016531 – System, method and program product to determine resolution when [...]
