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”.

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

Ughh when does it ever end.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Right there with you Microsoft.

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.