Tag Archives: law

Consumers ‘confused by copyright’ – BBC News

Most con­sumers don’t even have a basic under­stand­ing of copy­right laws.

February 23, 2010 – 9:45 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Copyright, Technology | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

2009 O’Reilly Ebook Revenue up 104% — Tools of Change for Publishing

O’Reilly Ebooks divi­sion made 104% more after drop­ping DRM.

January 24, 2010 – 9:47 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Technology | Tagged , , , , , , | Comments Off

Blasphemy In Ireland

It is now crime to be blas­phe­mous in Ire­land, a ridicu­lous and silly law that should never exist anywhere.

January 2, 2010 – 5:55 pm | By Justin Yost | Posted in Culture, Politics | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off

My response to Glen Beck’s silly “We surround them”

Glen Beck not too long ago did a silly lit­tle thing in which he posted a list of 9 state­ments and said that if you believe in them to send in a pic­ture for him to do dis­play them or some­thing. This is my response to the list. Amer­ica is good. Right a coun­try is now …

March 11, 2009 – 1:00 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Politics | Tagged , , , , , , , , , , , , | Comments Off

Does a Law Matter If No One Follows It?

I read an inter­est­ing arti­cle about the Repub­lic Win­dows & Doors fac­tory shut down in the New York Times. The inter­est­ing part of the arti­cle was when the author talked about how the fed­eral law designed to force com­pa­nies to notify employ­ers 60 days in advance of any mass lay­offs essen­tially was prac­ti­cally never fol­lowed …

December 17, 2008 – 3:03 am | By Justin Yost | Posted in Economics, Politics | Tagged , , , , | Comments Off