I think that IP is one of the largest issues going and to make it worse, people don’t know anything about it. That’s what makes it so dangerous. Corporations are slowly but surely gathering more and more power over IP, many people think that this is good for businesses because they can protect their interests, [...]
By jon
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Posted in random
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Also tagged art, baseballe, coporations, copyright, danger mouse, extortion, free speech, inovation, intellectual property, ip, law, mlb, music, the grey album
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There’s a hard case for saying capitalism still exists in America. Calling our market a free one is like saying a cage-free chicken is honestly free. The irony is that it is the market leaders (often ones who clamor for deregulation) are the ones that are steering America’s market towards a feudal system.
The linchpin in [...]
By jon
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Posted in business, politics, technology
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Also tagged america, american economy, business, capitalism, copyright, economy, feudal economy, feudalism, intellectual property, patent hoarding, patents, protectionism
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Fair use makes great derivative works like this legal. Of course Viacom still had it taken down, even though they legally don’t own it. But now it is back, take a look.
This is just one of the many reasons fair use needs to be protected. The DVD-CCA (the folks is charge of DVD licensing) [...]
The plot thickens! Richard Silver, the man who claims to own the silly line dance known as the electric slide is now being sued by the Electronic Frontier Foundation on behalf of Kyle Machulis. Kyle had uploaded a video onto youTube where, among other things, folks do the electric slide for about ten [...]
