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Center for Social Media: Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for Online Video
Here is a set of guidelines for appropriating footage and publishing the product online.
reference  intellectualproperty  teaching 
july 2008 by McChris
Museum of Intellectual Property
A University of North Dakota law professor is creating an online gallery of IP case studies.
teaching  intellectualproperty  law 
june 2008 by McChris
PC World: The Most Anti-Tech Organizations in America
This article lists "those groups whose interests always seem to run counter to those of technology companies and consumers."
telecom  publicpolicy  intellectualproperty  copyright 
december 2007 by McChris
Obey Plagiarist Shepard Fairey
Mark Vallen argues that Shepard Fairey reliance on appropriation makes him a plagiarist, rather than an artist.
sampling  art  streetart  intellectualproperty 
december 2007 by McChris
kottke.org: Yochai Benkler
Joel Turnipseed interviews the scholar about his book and participation online.
interview  opensource  intellectualproperty  freeculture  economics 
november 2007 by McChris
Ian Bogost: Chumby and the Rhetoric of Openness
Just because Chumby says it's open-source doesn't mean it is.
opensource  chumby  intellectualproperty  GPL 
november 2007 by McChris
NCTA: HBO's Zitter Says DRM Is Misnomer
HBO Chief Technology Officer Bob Zitter doesn't think the doublespeak in "Digital Rights Management" goes far enough and wants to change the name to "Digital Customer Enablement" or DCE.
cable  TV  intellectualproperty  DRM 
may 2007 by McChris
LATimes: The Internet sure loves its outlaws
This profile of bittorrent evangelists The Pirate Bay mentions how Sweden's Pirate Party rivals its Green Party in size.
copyright  intellectualproperty  bittorrent 
may 2007 by McChris
Study: Students Don't Understand Copyright Rules
Well, I think any study would show that "Students Don't Understand X."
education  copyright  intellectualproperty 
april 2007 by McChris
Network World FAQ: Vonage’s latest blow explained
Verizon is suing Vonage for patent infringement, leading to an injunction against Vonage signing up new customers. Although the injunction was lifted, it's clear that Verizon is using patents to broadly protect its business.
telecom  intellectualproperty  patents  VoIP 
april 2007 by McChris
Rough Type: Amazon patents cybernetic mind meld
Amazon has patented the software design that power it's "Mechanical Turk" service, which automates human input into data-processing systems.
crowdsourcing  intellectualproperty  patents 
april 2007 by McChris
MPAA’s Anti-Piracy Dogs, Great Publicity but Nothing Special
This TorrentFreak post discusses how the MPAA's dogs supposedly trained to sniff out pirated DVDs are in practice useless because many common objects are made of the same polycarbonate plastic.
stupid  surveillance  MPAA  intellectualproperty  DVD 
april 2007 by McChris
Harpers: The Ecstasy of Influence
Jonathan Lethem explains copyright issues in terms we liberal-arts flakes can understand.
intellectualproperty  copyright  CreativeCommons 
february 2007 by McChris
Reuters: Piracy Worked For Us, Romania President Tells Gates
Microsoft  intellectualproperty 
february 2007 by McChris
RIAA Identifies 12 Piracy “Hot Spot” Cities
"Atlanta, Austin, Chicago, Dallas, Houston, Los Angeles, Miami, New York, Philadelphia, Providence, San Diego, and San Francisco – are all “hot spots” of music theft, with significant piracy problems from the manufacturer level all the way down to t
austin  media  intellectualproperty 
january 2007 by McChris
Reuters: Indie music labels create Merlin to conjure licensing deals
The non-profit dubbed "Merlin" will defend the mechanical copyrights of this consortium of labels on sites like YouTube.
indierock  intellectualproperty  YouTube 
january 2007 by McChris
EFF Defends Right to Link from Internet Wiki
A wiki critical of a prescription drug linked to leaked documents, leading to a lawsuit.
wiki  law  intellectualproperty 
january 2007 by McChris
Blog Maverick: I still think Google is crazy
Mark Cuban was skeptical about the rumors that Google would buy YouTube. Now that the acquisition has been announced, he's stil wondering if intellectual property issues will bring the project down.
TVontheWeb  Web2.0  google  copyright  intellectualproperty  business 
october 2006 by McChris
Free Font Manifesto
A project to encourage type foundries to produce a few "free as in freedom" fonts. There are some nice fonts for download on this page, but I wish they had more sans-serif faces.
typography  font  freeculture  intellectualproperty 
october 2006 by McChris
Cultural Studies: Special Issue on Intellectual Property
The contents of this journal issue are available for free download online, thanks to the publisher.
intellectualproperty  academic  copyright  freeculture 
october 2006 by McChris
The UT System Crash Course in Copyright
The design of this site is straight-up 1996 (I think it's generated from PowerPoint slides) but this could be a useful resource for teaching or getting other grad students on the same page.
copyright  utexas  education  law  intellectualproperty 
september 2006 by McChris
IT Manager's Journal: 10 common misunderstandings about the GPL
This might be useful down the road.
GPL  opensource  intellectualproperty  law 
august 2006 by McChris
ENT News: Blackboard Scores Key E-Learning Technlogy Patent
What does this mean for Moodle or Blackboard's commercial competitors?
patents  intellectualproperty  education 
august 2006 by McChris
Torvalds critical of new GPL draft
I don't fully understand Linus' objections to the anti-DRM provision, but the bit about TiVo is quite interesting.
GPL  opensource  intellectualproperty  DRM  law 
july 2006 by McChris
Can Creative Commons and Commercial Aggregators learn to play nice?
Ethan Zuckerman raises some important questions about enforcing Creative Commons licenses, particularly the Share-Alike licenses.
copyright  intellectualproperty  blog  freeculture  CreativeCommons 
july 2006 by McChris
Little Brother Is Watching
I think I missed this the first time around, but plans are in the works to have Hong Kong scouting-like groups to scour message boards for copyright infringement.
scouting  China  surveillance  copyright  intellectualproperty 
july 2006 by McChris
LWN: The GPL Is a License, not a Contract
Via Jordan, a discussion of the differences between licenses and contracts. I wish there was a story like this that explained FCC Licenses.
law  GPL  intellectualproperty  opensource 
june 2006 by McChris
GROKLAW: The GPL is a License, Not a Contract,
Via Jordan, explains the legal difference between licenses and contracts in terms of the GPL. This distinction is not made frequently enough in popular reporting about intellectual property.
law  GPL  intellectualproperty  opensource 
june 2006 by McChris
FT.com - James Boyle: Constitutional circumvention
The esteemed law professor sounds off on the hazards of the proposed WIPO broadcast treaty.
intellectualproperty  copyright  law  globalization  scary 
june 2006 by McChris
O'Reilly's Web 2.0 trademark
Jon Lebkowsky has an interesting response to O'Reilly's trademark tussle over "Web 2.0". He says that he wishes the buzzword would go away.
Web2.0  trademark  intellectualproperty 
may 2006 by McChris
Orphan Works Bill Introduced
Lamar Smith introduced this? Regardless, creating a roadmap for moving abandoned works into the public domain is a step in the right direction.
politics  law  intellectualproperty  copyright 
may 2006 by McChris
Anti-war West Point grads told to stop using school's name
Military academy lawyers send group a nastygram citing trademark infringement. Your tax dollars at work..
power  intellectualproperty  anti-war  trademark 
may 2006 by McChris
WBHM: Technology and Trademarks
Public radio story that explains the threat of trademark dilution to businesses and efforts to expand trademark law to journalists and ordinary citizens.
business  law  intellectualproperty  trademark 
may 2006 by McChris
Telegraph: Farce that rose from the grave
A fan buys the rights to the show "Joking Apart" from the BBC to release it on DVD.
TV  intellectualproperty  DVD  fandom 
may 2006 by McChris
When Copying Is Okay: The "Fair Use" Rule
A guide to fair-use for the layperson.
useful  intellectualproperty  copyright 
may 2006 by McChris
Spacegrinder! - MPAA training police dogs to sniff out DVDs
via /. - the copyright cops are really out of control.
lawenforcement  DVD  film  intellectualproperty  copyright  surveillance 
may 2006 by McChris
Why was Colbert press corps video removed from YouTube?
Although I'm reluctant to point to articles on the most widely read blog, bOINGbOING, this thread about CSPAN's funding model and the status of its programming is really interesting.
cable  TV  intellectualproperty  TVontheWeb 
may 2006 by McChris
Eyeteeth: Miró's family goes after Google
I thought the Miro-inspired Google logo was pretty cool.
art  google  intellectualproperty 
april 2006 by McChris
Stay Free! Daily: Coffee (TM)
Starbucks has threatened to sue DoubleShot Coffee in my hometown of Tulsa for using the phrase "double shot," which refers to two shots of espresso. Jerks.
starbucks  coffee  power  intellectualproperty  tulsa  stupid 
april 2006 by McChris
Netflix awarded business model patent, immediately sues Blockbuster
I'm no fan of Blockbuster, but I like business model and software patents even less.
intellectualproperty  patents  business  video 
april 2006 by McChris
The Impact of Emerging Technologies: Linux for the People
''If knowledge doesn't have owners, intellectual property is a trick of neoliberalism,'' Hugo Chavez says.
opensource  globalization  intellectualproperty  socialjustice  production 
april 2006 by McChris
Lawrence Lessig: openDRM
Lessig on Sun Microsystem's effort to create an open DRM standard that would allow for fair-use. Like Lessig, I'm not crazy about this idea, but if we have to live with DRM, we should at least have an open standard.
copyright  freeculture  DRM  power  intellectualproperty  media 
march 2006 by McChris
How to right the copyright wrongs
Nice BBC column describing the issues at stake with computers and copyright. I'd give this to people new to the debate.
copyright  freeculture  power  politicaleconomy  intellectualproperty 
march 2006 by McChris
Intellectual Property Run Amok
List of copyright malefactors throughout the ages.
copyright  history  freeculture  intellectualproperty 
march 2006 by McChris

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