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I (Heart) NY, TM 26 Aug 2013 | 06:27 pm
One of the design blogs I read, called "99% Invisible" had an interesting segment on the history of the popular branding logo by that name. The story talks about how the designer donated it to the sta...
EA Makes (some of) its Digital Games Returnable 25 Aug 2013 | 10:41 pm
To the great surprise of just about everyone in the gaming industry, Electronic Arts (EA) announced something it's calling the "Great Game Guarantee". If you buy a digitally downloaded game through EA...
Lessig, EFF Take On Copyright Maximalists 23 Aug 2013 | 04:34 pm
There's a general, if unstated, practice that YouTube does not recognize fair use. Copyright holders employ bots that scan as much of the content as they can as fast as they can and if they perceive a...
Makerbot Scanner Announced 23 Aug 2013 | 04:09 pm
As long as we're talking about the ease of home reproduction of physical objects, Makerbot would like us to know that they'll be offering a Digitizer in October for USD 1400. The target audience is pe...
Rip, Mix, (3D) Print 21 Aug 2013 | 01:25 am
There's a very good chance that manufacturing is about to be hit by a wave of disruption - including illegal copying - similar to what hit the digital music business when Napster burst into mass consc...
The NSA Takes Out Another Copyfighter 20 Aug 2013 | 08:24 pm
Today at 2:40 AM Groklaw went dark. Not because of DDOS, or because of any of the host of actions that individuals or corporations have threatened over time. Groklaw went dark for the same reason that...
I Swear I'm Going to Make a New Blog Category 17 Aug 2013 | 01:16 am
And it's going to be called "E-books still suck." Here, let me share with you the latest joy, which is Jim O'Donnell explaining how Google Play (nee Google Books) helpfully removed 'his' e-books from ...
From In-SiDi-ous to Ridiculous 16 Aug 2013 | 10:38 pm
Back in June I wrote about SiDi - a DRM watermarking technology that I believe commits copyright violations and perpetrates fraud by producing altered versions (derivative works - illegal under copyri...
There is a Hole in Your Mind 10 Aug 2013 | 03:49 pm
And copyright maximalism put it there. In The Atlantic Rebecca Rosen sums up the problem in a short piece with the long title "The Hole in Our Collective Memory: How Copyright Made Mid-Century Books V...
SFX Build, Steal, Borrow, Adapt 8 Aug 2013 | 08:36 pm
I started watching tested.com's segment on their Comicon robot just because it's inherently cool. I found that the video is laced with Copyfight goodness, as the builders talk about the value of Ardui...
