When you die, become an intellectual property donor.
kottke.org: When you die, become an intellectual property donor.: Why let all of your ideas die with you? Current Copyright law prevents anyone from building upon your creativity for 70 years after your death. Live on in collaboration with others. Make an intellectual property donation. By donating your IP into the public domain you will “promote […]
High Court Says No to Wiretapping, Yes to Exclusionary Rule
WSJ.com — High Court Says No to Wiretapping, Yes to Exclusionary Rule: Yesterday, the Supreme Court granted cert in a case that, commentators say, gives them an opporunity to carve out more exceptions to the “exclusionary rule,” a criminal procedure doctrine that excludes evidence obtained from an unlawful search. At the same time, the Court, without comment, turned down […]
Freeing America's Operating System
Creative Commons — Freeing America’s Operating System: Last November Carl Malamud’s Public.Resource.Org announced an initiative to free 1.8 million pages of U.S. case law, publishing them online with no restrictions on reuse. Today the results of this initiative are available at http://bulk.resource.org/courts.gov/. From the press release (pdf): Today’s release covers all U.S. Supreme Court decisions and all Courts […]
Danish Pirate Bay Block Breaks EU Law
TorrentFreak — Danish Pirate Bay Block Breaks EU Law A crucial factor in the ruling is thus that the ISP commits copyright infringement in their routers when they allow access to The Pirate Bay. An absurd claim of course, and even more serious, it opposes the Infosoc Directive, that formed the basis of the Danish copyright law. In in […]
Comcast Pledges To Keep Traffic Filters Active
Comcast Pledges To Keep Traffic Filters Active: Comcast, in a reverse effort to Verizon’s well-received neutrality plea, has now stated for the record that it will keep filters active as long as music and video sharing continues to occur within its “tube†complex, reports Mike Sachoff of WebProNews today. Indeed, though Comcast for a long while had […]
The Public Library of Law
The Public Library of Law: What is the Public Library of Law? Searching the Web is easy. Why should searching the law be any different? That’s why Fastcase has created the Public Library of Law — to make it easy to find the law online. PLoL is the largest free law library in the world, because we […]
Starbucks ditches T-Mobile for AT&T
Ubiquitous caffeine conglomerate Starbucks has ended its Wi-Fi partnership with T-Mobile in favor of one with AT&T.
Bush Administration Spending More Taxpayer Money On Intellectual Property Prosecutions
Techdirt — Bush Administration Spending More Taxpayer Money On Intellectual Property Prosecutions: Back when former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales was running around pushing for stricter copyright laws, including making “attempted infringement” a crime, we figured that he was just looking for some sort of distraction from the Congressional investigation concerning some of his other actions in office. However, […]
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