Category Archives: Copyright

PLATO History – Yet another PLATO innovation ignored, this time patented by Google

Even Google sub­mits stu­pid and ridicu­lous patents, for stuff already “invented”.

March 22, 2011 – 7:34 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Copyright, Economics, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , | Comments Off

Bloomberg – Apple Sues Amazon.com, Seeks Order to Stop Use of ‘App Store’ Trademark

Ughh when does it ever end.

March 21, 2011 – 8:04 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Copyright, Economics, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

guardian.co.uk – Ebooks: durability is a feature, not a bug

As tends to be the case, so on your side Cory Doctorow.

March 8, 2011 – 11:49 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Copyright, Economics, Quick Posts, Technology | Tagged , , , | Comments Off

Electronic Frontier Foundation – Supreme Court to Hear Challenge to Law That Removes Works from the Public Domain

This should be declared uncon­sti­tu­tional, once work goes in the pub­lic domain, the work should stay there, per­pet­ual copy­right is a bad deal.

March 8, 2011 – 1:14 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Copyright, Culture, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Wolfire Games Blog – Counterfeit Lugaru on Apple’s App Store (developing)

Wow that’s inter­est­ing and a pretty bla­tant break­ing of trademark/copyright.

February 3, 2011 – 6:10 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Copyright, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

BBC News – Microsoft seeks to block Apple ‘App Store’ trademark

Right there with you Microsoft.

January 12, 2011 – 10:32 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Copyright, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off

TUAW – The GPL, the App Store, and you

Lots of infor­ma­tion into all the nuances of the GPL and how Apple could be right or could be wrong in it’s treat­ment of GPL licensed apps.

January 11, 2011 – 12:03 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Copyright, Programming, Quick Posts | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off