http://tinyurl.com/77yzh97
"How do we get from the next tech product everyone wants to copyright
and intellectual property regulation nobody can agree on? That's a
pretty cinematic arc for a blog post. But fitting, in this case, because
it starts with a device capable of ..."
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Lin wants to copyright 'Linsanity.'
By George Albano, The Hour (blog), Feburary 25, 2012.
http://tinyurl.com/6qtox58
"And now he is said to be close to having his name and "Linsanity"
copyrighted. But he's not the only one. Nor the first one. Lin's lawyers
filed an application with the US Patent and Trademark Office to register
"Linsanity."
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RIAA chief: SOPA & PIPA were killed by misinformation.
by Justin Massoud, myce.com, Feburary 25, 2012.
http://tinyurl.com/76hycym
"Nobody wanted the anti-piracy SOPA and PROTECT IP bills to pass more
than the Recording Industry Association of America. Well, beside the
MPAA. The music organization's CEO Cary Sherman on Thursday blamed a
purposeful misinformation campaign for ..."
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Reductio Ad Absurdum: Eternal Copyright Is Crazy... But What About
Today's Copyright Term?
by Mike Masnick, Techdirt, Feburary 24, 2012.
http://tinyurl.com/7qsfnla
"A ton of folks have Adrian Hon's brilliant satirical "modest proposal"
for eternal copyright. If you haven't yet read it, you should. Here's a
snippet: But what, I ask, about your great-great-great-grandchildren?
What do they get?"
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Attorney Class Accuses LexisNexis & West of Major Copyright Violations.
By IULIA FILIP, Courthouse News Service, Feburary 24, 2012.
http://tinyurl.com/7l538nv
"West and LexisNexis have engaged in wholesale unlawful copying of
attorneys' copyrighted work, bundled those works into searchable
databases, and sold access to those works in the form of digitized text
and images for huge profits."
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Copyright and the virtual library.
By Nathalie Fernbach, ABC Online, Feburary 23, 2012.
http://tinyurl.com/83vdhj7
"So how can libraries keep up with the demand for online content,
without stepping on the toes of the copyright holders? That's the
challenge that James Cook University is currently tackling as they
digitise their collection."
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