Oh, how embarrassing. I missed World IP day. I missed my opportunity to hold an event that could “increase public understanding of what IP really means, and to demonstrate how the IP system fosters not only music, arts and entertainments, but also all the products and technological innovations that help to shape our world.”
This was [...]
Everyone’s atwitter (no, literally, I saw it from like three people on Twitter) about the absolutely fabulous response from Kurt Denke, president of Blue Jeans Cable, to a cease-and-desist order from legendarily litigious Monster Cable. I urge you to read it in its entirety, as the writing, the sheer scope of his demands, and the [...]
According to TorrentFreak, Neil Berkett, incoming CEO of Virgin Media, says he’ll happily slow down the Internet traffic of any media provider who doesn’t pay him a tidy little premium. In fact, he told the Royal Television Society’s Television magazine that if the BBC and and other public broadcasters don’t pay up for [...]
It appears that Wikileaks, most recently in the news after a Swiss bank got it briefly shut down for revealing “trade secrets,” is now drawing the copyright-related ire of the Church of Scientology. Wikileaks says it is “developing an uncensorable Wikipedia for untraceable mass document leaking and analysis,” and says it hopes the risks of [...]
Wired reports on a professor who’s suing one of those companies that repackages and sells student notes, claiming the notes themselves infringe on the professor’s copyrighted lectures. Note that the professor is not claiming that students who take notes are infringing–that, his lawyer very reasonably points out, is certainly fair use.
University of Florida professor Michael [...]
What happens when you don’t post quite as regularly as you should? You get a little backed up. So, without further ado, a collection of happenings in the COO world.
In response to increasing pressure on ISPs to commence crackdown on file-sharing, stat, Charles Dunstone, head of Carphone Warehouse, tells the BBC it is not his [...]