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On Patents : The Word of Notch

Sun, 29 Jul 2012 03:25:08 +0000

If you own a software patent, you should feel bad.

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Eternal Copyright: a modest proposal – Telegraph Blogs

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 17:19:34 +0000

Certainly we wouldn't want to listen to their other suggestions, which would see us broaden the definition of "fair use" and, horrifically, reduce copyright terms back to merely a lifetime or even less. Not only would such an act deprive our great-great-grandchildren of their birthright, but it would surely choke off creativity to the dark ages of the 18th and 19th centuries, a desperately lean time for art in which we had to make do with mere scribblers such as Wordsworth, Swift, Richardson, Defoe, Austen, Bronte, Hardy, Dickens, and Keats.

Tags: #copyfight #copyright #imported:pinboard #ip #writing

Eternal Copyright: a modest proposal – Telegraph Blogs

Mon, 20 Feb 2012 17:19:34 +0000

Tags: #copyfight #copyright #ip #writing

No Copyright Intended - Waxy.org

Fri, 09 Dec 2011 18:38:13 +0000

Remix culture is the new Prohibition, with massive media companies as the lone voices calling for temperance. You can criminalize commonplace activities from law-abiding people, but eventually, something has to give.

Tags: #copyfight #copyright #future #ip #law #youtube

[IP] more on Research under fire?

Mon, 31 Jan 2005 15:43:27 +0000

"Putting roadblocks in front of knowledge doesn't stop it from coming about -- it moves offshore."

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IPac - Blog

Thu, 13 Jan 2005 12:39:55 +0000

"Senator Hatch is expected to chair a new subcommittee on Intellectual Property. Ugh."

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