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How to type © Copyright symbol. Eternal Copyright: a modest proposal. Our copyright laws are stealing from the mouths of Charles Dickens' great-great-great-great grandchildren On Tuesday 14th, the Serious Organised Crime Agency (SOCA) posted a message on RnBXclusive.com, stating: "If you have downloaded music using this website you may have committed a criminal offence which carries a maximum penalty of up to 10 years imprisonment and an unlimited fine under UK law.

" SOCA's threat is a stirring defence of what we hold dear in this country – the right of a creator to benefit from their intellectual property, whether it be a song, book, film, or game. Without this assurance of compensation, we might not see any new creative works being produced at all, and so it's for this reason that we've continually lengthened copyright terms from 14-28 years as set out by the Statue of Anne in 1710 to "lifetime plus 70 years" today.

Imagine you're a new parent at 30 years old and you've just published a bestselling new novel. Of course, there will be some odd effects. The Pirate Bay's Peter Sunde: It's evolution, stupid. When I was 9 years old I got my first computer, an Amiga 500. It was the best computer ever built, with great graphics, amazing sound and seven times faster than the Commodore 64.

One of my friends said that the Amiga was useless since you needed to boot it from floppies. On the C64 you could program without even a cassette. Of course the C64 died while the Amiga flourished. The Amiga later died when even better technology came along. We all know how evolution works, except one industry that refuses to evolve: the entertainment industry.

Instead of looking at evolution as something inevitable, the industry has made it their business to refuse and/or sue change, by any necessary means. In the case of The Pirate Bay, it's been particularly obvious. Of course I would have preferred to win in the Supreme Court as personal vindication and to vacate my sentence. Evidently, Warner Brothers felt that the investigation was taking too long. WATCH NOW: Peter Sunde's talk at the Wired conference. Crowdsourcing patent prior art discovery to thwart trolls. March 02, 2012, 10:58 AM — Prior art discovery kills patent trolls, but research is tough. Article One Partners offers an army of geeks recognition and rewards. Killing a patent troll lawsuit takes research beyond just earlier patents. Lawyer Cheryl Milone founded Article One Partners to flip common knowledge, and research methods, upside down.

Prior art can be in any language, from any country, and may be found outside the field. Sign me up I've been participating in the AOP community since January of 2009, and won my first award for uncovering secondary prior art in March of 2010. I'm one of those people who love tracking down esoteric things online so this is right up my alley. This seems like a great way to make some money on the side for doing research. Patent trolls affect all of us. Time for patent reform the impression is that most of the patents granted are, in fact, bogus.gbhn on news.ycombinator.com I can spot corruption when I see it. A different view. STOP GOPA - @Google Online Piracy Act goes into effect March 1st - Please Share.

Press release - Public Domain Jam - New Years Night & Brunch | Digital Allmend. Wir weisen sie auf folgende Veranstaltung hin: Public Domain Neujahrsbrunch 2012 Generationenübergreifender Neujahrsbrunch für Kinder und Erwachsene Sonntag, 1.01.2012, 12-20 UhrKafi für Dich, Stauffacherstr. 141, 8004 Zürich James Joyces “Ulysses”, Lisa Wengers “Joggeli” und Walther Ruttmanns “Sinfonie der Grossstadt” haben miteinander gemein, dass sie mit dem Jahreswechsel frei vervielfältigt und verändert werden dürfen. Sie gehören zu den unzähligen Werken, deren Eigentumsrecht am 1.1.2012 der Öffentlichkeit zufällt. Dabei geht es um ein fundamentales Element des Urheberrechts: nämlich die zeitliche Begrenzung der Urheberrechte als Ausgleich zwischen den Interessen der Autoren und der Öffentlichkeit. Der Public Domain Jam unterstützt alle Menschen beim Umgang mit diesen Werken. Eltern spielen Figurentheater nach Max Neal, Lisa Wenger, Arthur Holitscher und James Joyce.

Die Veranstaltung wird organisiert und unterstützt von Dock18, Digitale Allmend, Wikimedia CH und dem Kafi für dich. Some Arguments Against ACTA. The ACTA agreement has sparked protests all over Europe It is true that some claims made by some opponents to ACTA have been exaggerated, which is perhaps natural, but is still unfortunate. There is no need to paint ACTA as being worse than it actually is. There are enough things about ACTA to raise concern anyway. Here are some of them: ”ACTA changes nothing, but is crucial” makes no sense This is the main argument of the proponents of ACTA. In the US they say that ACTA will change no US laws, and in the EU they say that it will not change any EU laws. If it were true that ACTA changes nothing, this would in itself be a sufficient argument to reject the treaty outright.

ACTA ties the hands of the parliaments Copyright and copyright enforcement are hot political issues that are coming under increasing debate, both in the EU and on the national level. ACTA is useless against counterfeiting China, Russia, India, and Brazil are the biggest manufacturers of counterfeit goods in the world. Music Law Seminar | The "Official" Blog of the University of Texas Law School's Music Law Seminar.

Google Chairman Eric Schmidt Weighs In On Patent Issues: They’re ‘Terrible’ Eric Schmidt, Google’s Executive Chairman and former CEO, took the stage at the Dreamforce conference in San Francisco today to talk about a host of topics, including the success of Google Apps, his feelings about Steve Jobs, Google’s recent acquisition of Motorola, with the conversation with Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff even ranging into Schmidt’s thoughts on the current landscape facing the U.S. patent market. The executive chairman began by addressing the purchase of Nortel Networks’ roster of patents by a group of buyers that included some of Google’s rivals, including Microsoft and Apple.

Fellow TechCruncher MG Siegler covered the back-and-forth between Google and Microsoft that unfolded in regard to the supposition that the group that bought the Nortel patents was effectively attempting to cut the legs out from underneath Android. Of course, as Schmidt pointed out, under current law, this is illegal — the contemporary U.S. patent system does not allow for this kind of disclosure.