another link from Wired this morning: pro bono group’s challenge to patent on naturally-occurring genetic material allowed to proceed:
U.S. District Judge Robert W. Sweet of New York, in ruling that the case may proceed to trial, noted that the litigation might open the door to challenges of a host of other patented genes. About [...]
Archive for the ‘fair use’ Category
good news for health science
Posted in constitution, economics, ethics, fair use, free speech, medicine, patents, property, science on November 5, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
is it legal to make backup copies of your DVDs?
Posted in contracts, copyright, economics, fair use, first sale doctrine, free (or not) software, media, property, technology on April 26, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
This is one of those questions that has bothered me ever since the DeCSS thing went down way back in 2001. The crux of the problem is this: the movie industry wants to sell you a DVD like it’s a physical object, and then use technology to restrict your use as though you have [...]
That’s Not How The Internet Works, Part II
Posted in advertising, copyright, dissent, economics, education, ethics, fair use, free speech, internet, media, public domain on February 18, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
On Friday, a judge in California issued an order to remove the DNS listing for the Wikileaks server. Wikileaks is a public internet site that functions on the wiki model, where any person can post content. Wikileaks purported to specialize in hosting incriminating documents that could do damage to their owners if they became public [...]
Neat!
Posted in fair use, free (or not) software, internet, media, tagged flickr, seadragon on February 14, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Start with a color.
When Xenu Sees This, He’s Going To Be Pissed
Posted in copyright, education, ethics, fair use, free speech, hypocrisy, internet, media, politics, private press, property, technology, tv, tagged cults, fishman affidavit, OTIII, religion, scientology, Xenu on January 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The kids at Digg have noticed that someone posted a huge collection of Scientology documents on the web. And from digg, someone posted a torrent of the file to PirateBay. As I suggested last week, this is the obvious and natural consequence of drawing attention to that silly Tom Cruise video- people will yank the [...]
Dow Off 300 Points
Posted in economics, fair use, internet, tagged Dow, Stock Market on January 17, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
But I’m not worried about the economy, because I know that if things start to look really bad, Tom Cruise will save us.
update at the close: Dow down over 300 points, -2.5% on the day.
Xenu Made Me Do It
Posted in copyright, dissent, economics, education, ethics, fair use, free speech, internet, tagged copyright infringment, cults, fishman affidavit, religion, scientology, tom cruise is a total nutjob on January 17, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Someone should remind those Scientologist nutjobs: that’s just not how the internet works. While the CoS is one of the very very few organizations that have successfully forced posts to be removed from slashdot, they have not been able to keep their secret (and totally hilarious) creation mythology off the internet.
And you would think they [...]
