Microsoft’s Ironic Poker Game: But are they bluffing this time?
Saturday, April 12th, 2008 Posted in Business Law, Information Technology, Intellectual Property | 1 Comment »Back in February, Network World ran a story that Linus Torvalds, inventor of the Linux operating system and guru of the Linux kernel, believes that Microsoft is bluffing in its threat to sue for patent infringement. NW quotes Torvals ...
Hulu and the NHL, follow-up
Monday, March 24th, 2008 Posted in Business Law, Communications, Information Technology, Intellectual Property | No Comments »In response to a comment received putting succinctly Mr. Bettman's effect on the NHL, I would like to present two screen captures comparing the customer relations aspects of licensing issue manifestations. We have the new South Park Studios web site, which ...
Hulu and the NHL
Monday, March 24th, 2008 Posted in Business Law, Communications, Information Technology, Intellectual Property | 2 Comments »Michael Geist pointed out that the NHL webcast on Hulu.com is blocked to Canadians. It was pointed out in the comments that it seems blocked to other non-Americans as well. I added my $0.02 (i.e. this is my ...
Joomla! Demo Camp Notes
Monday, March 24th, 2008 Posted in Communications, Information Technology | No Comments »Just thought I would cross-post them. They are at Tazzu as well. For those who don't remember, I was at the Vancouver Joomla! Demo Camp last month, and posted directly from there. My notes are in point form. Click below ...
Why the RIAA should be subject to Judicial Review
Monday, March 24th, 2008 Posted in Information Technology, Intellectual Property | No Comments »Nate Anderson of Ars Technica published a piece on March 11 entitled, "RIAA tells Ars: We're not hypocrites". Essentially it boils down to this: The RIAA's collective spin-off -- in some ways similar to SOCAN here -- is ...
Nine Inch Nails in the RIAA’s Coffin
Thursday, March 13th, 2008 Posted in Humanities, Information Technology, Intellectual Property | No Comments »According to Prof. Larry Lessig, Nine Inch Nails' latest album has been released under Creative Commons. Kudos to Trent Reznor! http://lessig.org/blog/2008/03/nin_goes_cc.html I tried to comment but Prof. Lessig's blog is giving me some sort of SQL error. Here is my ...
Selling your everything: Non-comp clauses, IP, and employment contracts
Saturday, March 8th, 2008 Posted in Business Law, Information Technology, Intellectual Property, Video Games, Virtual Worlds | 4 Comments »I would like to write, today, about a murky subject I’ve been thinking about for a few weeks. The various forms the germ of this post has assumed over those weeks all stem from a particular type of clause ...
Joomla Demo Camp - Vancouver
Tuesday, February 26th, 2008 Posted in Business Law, Communications, Information Technology | 2 Comments »I am spending this evening at the Joomla! Demo Camp at The Network Hub in downtown Vancouver. Joomla! is an open-source content management system (CMS) that makes creating sophisticated websites with dense, extensive, and/or media rich content as easy as posting ...
Congratulations, Professor Michael Geist!
Monday, February 25th, 2008 Posted in Information Technology, Intellectual Property | No Comments »Prof. Michael Geist of the University of Ottawa is the Canada Research Chair in E-Commerce and Internet Law, an advocate for users' rights in the copyfight, and the recipient of an EFF Pioneer Award: Slaw Electronic Frontier Foundation Professor Geist rallied the Canadian ...
Net Neutrality and New Media Regulation
Thursday, February 14th, 2008 Posted in Communications, Information Technology | 2 Comments »Today I'm going to look at the inevitable intersection of 'Net neutrality and new media regulation. The populist position – one with which I concur – is to want 'Net neutrality, and not to want new media over-regulation (and ...
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