Archive for March, 2006
Thursday, March 23rd, 2006
Every once in a while, some legislator tries to argue that games are not protected speech because they have no narrative or message. To them, I offer Patriot Act: The Home Version, a parody of Monopoly. The Philly Inquirer reports:
Designed by a New Jersey graphic artist and Arab civil-rights advocate, ...
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Thursday, March 23rd, 2006
The lower house of the French parliament just passed a law requiring digital content vendors to share the inner workings of their technological protection measures with rivals. Apple, the main target (with a lock on digital music sales), would have to allow its media player competitors to create media players ...
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Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006
Adam Curry, the MTV VJ, sued a Dutch gossip magazine for running CC-licensed photos of his daughter. (Apparently including this one.) The judge ruled that, despite the CC license, the rag could be held liable for using the photos without Curry's permission.
Specifically, Curry licensed his personal photos on Flickr via ...
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Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006
This story at CNet makes me want to hurl--not the coverage, but the content.
Verizon basically went to the FCC, said "we want to play the business broadband game by different rules," and got what they wanted. Chairman Kevin Martin just sat on their petition and it therefore passed. Like a ...
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Wednesday, March 22nd, 2006
Sometimes it is easy to forget just how much control over information graphic designers really get to exercise.
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Monday, March 20th, 2006
This is new to me: in an op-ed titled "This Essay Breaks the Law," Michael Crighton states that the Supreme Court will soon be reviewing a case involving some company's claim on a patent on a form of medical treatment. The patent in question can apparently be violated just by ...
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Friday, March 17th, 2006
CSPD20Comics - a copyright comic!
It is like an interbred marriage between my two dear colleagues here: Jason with his affinity for comics and Bill, the copyright wonk. :)
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Tuesday, March 14th, 2006
According to a recent article in the Washington Post, a bill to be proposed in the senate would criminalize any attempts to reveal information on government eavesdropping. An aide to the bill's author insists that reporters would be exempt, but presumably their sources would not.
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Tuesday, March 14th, 2006
Here's an interesting article through Wired about The Pirate Bay, a BitTorrent search/tracking site that has successfully defied all attempts to shut it down. Apparently, the pro-piracy site has even inspired a "Pirate Party" making a bid for the Swedish parliament.
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Monday, March 13th, 2006
At least, according to this story at Alternet.
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