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Question to Sony: Are you licensing or selling those songs? Sony: It depends on who is asking. Are you an artist or a customer? According to Yahoo! News (via BoingBoing), Sony is being sued for...
View ArticleSoftware Patents: definitively not welcome in Europe?
This comes as a surprise. In the last few years, the debate in Europe around the patentability of software had the European Commission arguing that it was necessary to legislate according to current...
View ArticleThe same argument over and over
The Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) published an interesting ad in a Capitol Hill newspaper this week. It contains a few quotes of arguments that have been repeated over the time to oppose...
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GPLv3 beta 2
So, the second draft of the GPLv3 is out. Changes include a rephrasing of the anti-DRM aspects of the code. In fact, the wording DRM is not there anymore. As Richard Stallman has made it clear in his...
View ArticleChile’s schizophrenia regarding copyrights and other laws
Thiru Balasubramaniam writes an interesting entry about Public Domain and Open Standards. The position of Chile is particularly interesting, since our delegate gave an impassioned defence of why WIPO...
View ArticleWhat should DRM-related laws look like?
We have become used to think of DRM-related laws in terms of one-sided issues that consider only the publishers and completely ignore the general public as well as the potential authors of new...
View ArticlePutting money where the security is: Liability
This article in Wired by Bruce Schneier gives another hint at what some people have been arguing for a long time: Liability for software vendors. It describes how fast an organization reacts when there...
View ArticleKilling domain names as means to enforce court rulings
Ed Felten asks interesting questions regarding the Spamhaus.org case. You can read his post for details, but basically, Spamhaus.org has ignored a ruling in which it should pay a plaintiff for damages...
View ArticleIntellectual Property or Exclusion Rights?
I am sitting in a seminar dealing with promotion of access to knowledge, mainly through the use of open licenses that provide much more access then the minimum required by law. It has become more clear...
View ArticleOpen Source Licensing based on Patents rather than Copyright
This is a very interesting proposal by Larry Rosen and Fred Popowich as explained in an interview on linux.com. The consequences are interesting, particularly regarding dual licensing. One of the...
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