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Category Archives: Intellectual Property
Reboot Groklaw.net: an Open Letter to PJ.
The NSA is scary. I get it. I have slightly less sympathy for you (a U.S. citizen) as I am not a U.S. citizen — which makes my situation all-the-more precarious, BUT:
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GrokLaw is needed now, more … Continue reading
IFlop? Bad iPad3 reviews a significant first
I haven’t said much about all things Apple on my blog thus far… and maybe I should have. The “curated” application experience has many hidden consumer pitfalls including loss of privacy, but loss of control over our own computer devices … Continue reading
Posted in fail, Intellectual Property, Life, Media, Politics, Products
Tagged app store, apple, curated application, fail, ipad3, singularity
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CRIA Caught Stealing the Cookie Jar: Nobody Surprised
I’m going to start with the headline of a post to Michael Geist’s blog this morning: Canadian Recording Industry To Pay $45 Million To Settle Class Action Over Copyright Infringement. Go Read. I’ll wait.
Now I’d like to say something stronger: … Continue reading
Software Patents: Innovation Disincentive
There’s an idea in reporting that to be “fair” to a topic, one must “balance” one view with equal time and emphasis for the opposing view. You will not see that here, dear reader, as I have said that unbiased … Continue reading
Posted in Intellectual Property, Rant
Tagged groklaw, ip, patent troll, patents, rant, software patents, troll, walker digital
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Who’s Right? My Copyright Rant
Being a mathematician at heart, I tend to return to first principles to resolve an issue. To talk about the modern mess that is copyright and/or intellectual property, we’re going to consider the purveyors of this mess: corporations. Why is … Continue reading
Posted in Intellectual Property, Rant
Tagged acta, cd, copyleft, copyright, corp, corporation, dvd, Media, music, p2p, peer to peer, rant, wipo
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