Orphan works legislation is no problem, says the Congressional Budget Office because “[a]ccording to Copyright officials, there have been very few lawsuits against copyright infringers in recent years and the value of the awards in those suits have not been large.” Yes. That’s really what they said. I guess everything is relative when you live […]
As more and more of the creative class start to wake up to the absolute corruption that is growing among the absolutely rich and powerful at Google, it is not surprising that authors foreshadow the apocolypse and the “final encyclopedia“, that creepy, geeky sci-fi cliff that Google is driving us all to jump over. Excellent […]
The Electronic Frontier Foundation is crowing about a ruling they got that people who sell promo CDs–that the recipient is given with full knowledge that the recipient is not supposed to sell the disc–are permitted to sell their promos on eBay and presumably in bricks and mortar stores as well. Ah yes, a great victory […]
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