Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 16 2013 @ 08:15 AM EDT |
I just thought I'd share a couple of stories I've scribbled on the patenting
genes, and the extreme sport of overenforcing copyright.
http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/10063/20121104-0003/www.antisf.com.au/index.php/th
e-stories/sex-as-ipr-piracy.html
for a possible consequence of patenting genes; Angelina Jolie should read this.
Then
http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/10063/20120404-1100/www.antisf.com.au/the-stories/
mozarts-copyright-infringement-device.html
for a possible interpretation of "copyright infringement device". Just
ask some of our friendly copyright-infringement-in-piracy just how far they are
willing to go.
And, by the way, well done, PJ! Ten years of talking sense to people who don't
have any sense - not an easy job! Well done!
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Authored by: Gringo_ on Thursday, May 16 2013 @ 08:58 AM EDT |
Help Us Stop
the TPP
documents show
that the American proposals
for the Trans-Pacific Partnership would export the
worst of
modern U.S. copyright law, and thwart other countries'
ability to
create laws that best meet their domestic needs:
The proposed rules
could prevent individuals from
circumventing DRM—the technical barriers put in
place to
make copying, accessing, and sharing copyrighted content
more
difficult. This would hinder technical fixes necessary
to make content
accessible for the blind or to unlock your
phone.
It contains
provisions that would, by default, regulate
"temporary" reproductions of
copyrighted files, thereby
restricting all kinds of intrinsic functions of your
computer.
It increases copyright terms well beyond international
standards, adding some 20 years to copyright terms
worldwide, potentially
robbing the public domain of decades
of cultural works.
In many
countries, an allegation of infringement is not
enough to get material taken
offline. TPP’s proposals, by
contrast, put in place a system (similar to the
one we have
in the U.S.) that encourages ISPs to take down content based
on
nothing but a notice. We’ve seen how that can be abused
here—do we really want
to export it wholesale?
Treaties like this also help to fossilize
existing U.S. law
and force other countries to sign up for American missteps.
Momentum in D.C. for rolling back copyright terms and DRM
law is growing, but
opponents of those changes have argued
that lawmakers can't undo their own
mistakes—because, they
say, we've already signed onto IP trade agreements that
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 16 2013 @ 09:08 AM EDT |
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 16 2013 @ 11:07 AM EDT |
"Number 10 admitted that any change in the law to
prosecute anyone for
allegedly fixing the pump price would be
forward-looking, and would not be able
to hold to account any
executives caught up in the current scandal link
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 16 2013 @ 11:33 AM EDT |
It's not really a surprise to a lot of us that it only becomes a matter of
time before extremists "copyright maximalists" are
caught in breach of
the very rules they claim so vehemently to uphold.
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- They're funny! - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 16 2013 @ 11:52 AM EDT
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 16 2013 @ 11:57 AM EDT |
McBride rides again
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 16 2013 @ 12:43 PM EDT |
Last month, the University
of Ottawa Press published The
Copyright
Pentalogy: How the Supreme Court of Canada Shook the
Foundations of
Canadian Copyright Law, an effort by many of
Canada's leading
copyright scholars to begin the process of
examining the long-term
implications of the copyright pentalogy.
As I've noted in previous posts, the
book is available for purchase and
is also available as a free
download under a Creative Commons licence. The book can be downloa
ded
in its entirety or each of the 14 chapters can be downloaded
individually.
The book includes two articles on technological
neutrality, whose
inclusion as a foundational principle of Canadian
copyright was a
landmark aspect of the copyright pentalogy.
The
message from the Court
is clear: copyright law should not stand in the way of
technological
progress and potentially impede the opportunities for greater
access
afforded by the Internet through the imposition of additional fees
or
restrictive rules that create extra user costs.
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Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Thursday, May 16 2013 @ 01:43 PM EDT |
Microsoft is baiting Google.
They will not restore the ads to youtube.
They will substitute their own ads.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 16 2013 @ 01:59 PM EDT |
Slashdot:
Canada Courts, Patent Office
Warns Against Trying To Patent Mathematics
The original article:
Patentable Subject
Matter - New Notices From Canadian Patent Office, Anticipated Issues for the
Court?
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 16 2013 @ 04:32 PM EDT |
Here's a single memory location. It stores 1 or 0. It has a physical location
on a physical chip, where it consists of a series of silicon structures. Those
structures are patented, which is a perfectly appropriate hardware patent.
Now here comes a software patent. The claim is that, when the software is
loaded on the machine, it becomes a new machine. This claim boils down to the
claim that it's a different machine when the memory location stores a 1, and
another different machine when the memory location stores a 0. But the original
patent was for the device as a memory - as something that could store either 1
or 0.
How many different ways is it valid to patent the same physical structure?
Does this argument make it clear that it is crazy to claim that loading software
makes it a new machine?
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Authored by: cricketjeff on Thursday, May 16 2013 @ 06:07 PM EDT |
It does, I suppose, depend how you define evil, but creative accountancy tends
towards that end of the spectrum in my view. Can you really claim a transaction
takes place in Ireland if the salesman who does all the selling and the business
he is selling to are both in London for the whole time, but the Internet page
where the deal is, in Google's view, closed is hosted in Dublin.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22551401
In an open and honest world, of the sort we free software believers believe in,
I think we should try to honour the spirit as well as the letter of the law.
We should patent genuine inventions not forms of words, we should never strip
meta-data from images before re-posting them, we shouldn't buy copied DVDs and
we should pay our taxes!
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Authored by: Ed L. on Thursday, May 16 2013 @ 06:50 PM EDT |
Acorn
founder: SIXTH WAVE of tech will wash away
Apple, Intel:
"ARM
sold 9 billion units in 2012, more units than there are
people on earth and
more units than Intel has sold in its
entire history". -- Hermann
Hauser
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 16 2013 @ 08:11 PM EDT |
Michael Anderer has sued his ex-partners at Inaura for fraud and conspiracy.
The complaint was filed on 2/11/13
Pacer reference at Utah Federal docket -
Case 2:13-cv-00111-TC (I downloaded with ReCap enabled, so others might be
able to obtain using the ReCap library).
The complaint has not been answered,
which leads me to believe that some negotiations may be underway.
Anderer
and Peter Bookman were in business to develop a virtual computer using a dongle
device starting about in June 2007. This is the 2nd iteration-- the first was
the Black Dog device that blew up earlier.
The other Black Dog principal --
Ricke White, jumped to Fusion-iO (also in Utah).
The Inaura attempt also
became insolvent, but got a patent infringement payment from Fusion-iO.
Peter Bookman rolled another iteration "V3" with backing from DAVID M. MOCK and
DAVID G. TURCOTTE approximately September 2010. From a web search V3 appears
to have traction and customers for a device that accelerates virtual machines
using Fusion-iO memory chips.
Anderer is claiming Mock, Turcotte and
Bookman shut him out of the V3 deal despite ownership in the predecessor
companies.
Astute readers of the pages know that these principals have
graced the Utah Cluster fig through multiple iterations. David Mock, for
instance, sued Stephen Norris for a vaporous capital deal, that involved Norris
using an advance to jet-set around the world. Ricke White and Mark Robbins (of
Skyline Cowboy fame) were at each others teeth over a bad Ferrari deal. On
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, May 18 2013 @ 09:10 AM EDT |
The ever astute readers may remember that Stephen Norris and Darl McBride
decamped for New York in the company of Robert V. Brazell. This illustrious
grouping founded "Talos Partners" and was promptly sued by Mark H. Robbins for
shutting him out. This was the "Pelican Brief" case-- the source of the infamous
"bulldog puppet" meme used to describe Darl.
In a turn-about, Robert V.
Brazell is now being sued by his investor groups in Talos (including, cuttingly,
Steve Brazell and Jeff Brazell). They allege that the chief asset of was a
Musak broadcasting company, In-Store Broadcasting Network (IBN). Through a
series of chicanery, Robert Brazell managed to secure all the payment when IBN
was sold to a competitor and zero'd out the assets of his investors. The
complaint asserting the misdeeds is online at: JS Online
reporting
The case has some news visibility because Robert Kasten
(ex-Republican Senator from Wisconsin) is a board member of Talos. Robert Kasten
has been a figurehead board member of most of the Stephen Norris-front shell
organizations.
The other board member of Talos is a wheeler-dealer type
from Puerto Rico named Miguel Lausell, Senor Lausell is being sued for 14
million by a construction company on the island, for brokering a deal with an
entirely vaporous asphalt wholesale scam. This can be read about at: Blog Reporting on Lausell
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