Copyright: Redistributing TV Material Without the Ads Is Legal
Here is one for the books; you may record copyrighted material and play it back without the ads, because dumping the ads is covered by fair use %26lt;a href="...
View ArticleCopyright: Competition now; But in the Future?
Competition for cable-television providers looks safe at least for a time, as the result of two copyright suits %26lt;a...
View ArticleCopyright: Cable and TV Networks Fee Fight Fallout--- Who Pays? The Public
Public Knowledge has a couple of pieces up on the fight between CBS and Time Warner Cable over TWC's payment for the right to rebroadcast broadcasts and then charge the public %26lt;a...
View ArticlePatents: ITC Allows Apple Imports That Violate Samsung Patents
The blog, Public Knowledge, argues that the International Trade Commission should consider the public interest in reaching regulatory decisions on patents. The Obama has so decreed when it overruled an...
View ArticlePatents: The Times: You Can Get Your Invention on to the Store Shelf; Here's How
The other day, the New York Times published instructions for aspiring inventors on how to take their inventions through the patent granting process and on to the retailers' shelves %26lt;a...
View ArticlePatent Trolls: Hope for Small Defendants in Patent Cases Against the Trolls
Floyd Norris writes on patent trolls and the law %26lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/18/business/extracting-a-toll-from-a-patent-troll.html"%26gt;link here%26lt;/a%26gt;. It is well-worth a...
View ArticleAgainst IM: Periodic Update
As Congress gets ready to pass a greatly watered down patent reform act - watered down largely due to the lobbying of the two biggest patent trolls, IBM and Microsoft - and the Supreme Court begins to...
View ArticlePatent Trolls: Patent Troll "Intellectual Ventures" Proves Need for Patent...
Bartees Cox Jr. contrasts the company image and the public image of the patent troll, Intellectual Ventures (http://www.publicknowledge.org/blog/two-sides-intellectual-ventures). He sums it up,...
View ArticleCorruption: The New Hampshire Rebellion
Larry Lessig is says we should ask politicians just one question "What will you do to end this corruption?" I'm not sure I will trust their answers, but it is a good question. You find the details and...
View ArticlePatent Trolls: Patent Reform Draft Examined
First, techdirt and then the Electronic Frontier Foundation examine the draft bill on patent reform introduced by House Judiciary Chair Bob Goodlatte. Techdirt...
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