SOPA quote of the day
…, the industry is fighting what amounts to a new popular culture. Unlike the old pop culture Hollywood dominated, this one is largely independent of the music, movie and broadcast industries. In fact,...
View ArticlePiracy cannot be stopped
Paul Tassi, writing in Forbes, has a good overview of an underlying and unavoidable reality of the digital age in which we live: piracy cannot be stopped. Technological blocks are temporary at best,...
View ArticleTech quote of the day
Information wants to be free. Information also wants to be expensive. Information wants to be free because it has become so cheap to distribute, copy, and recombine – too cheap to meter. It wants to be...
View ArticleIP quote of the day
It’s actually worse than that. Copyright and patents are the exception and limitation. Not fair use. Property rights are considered inalienable rights in the Constitution. They’re also considered...
View ArticleSamsung’s “beat Apple” files
In the jury trial currently underway in California, pitting Apple against Samsung, Apple argues that Samsung deliberately copied the look and feel (aka “trade dress”) of Apple’s iconic iPhone. On...
View ArticleApple v. Samsung
Apple has presented a stream of Samsung’s own internal documents clearly showing that Samsung was terrified of the iPhone and went to great lengths to copy its most attractive features, as John...
View ArticleTech quote of the day
No one can look at Samsung’s mobile products over the last decade and not consider them anything other than a ruthless, relentless copy of everything popular that’s came before. It’s not that Samsung...
View ArticleApple-Samsung verdict in favor of Apple (updated x7)
It is very preliminary at this time, but it appears that the jury in the Apple-Samsung trial has ruled in favor of Apple. The jury appears to have decided that several Apple patents have been violated,...
View ArticleApple and Samsung react to verdict
Here are the statements issued by Apple and Samsung following yesterday’s win for Apple. Apple: We are grateful to the jury for their service and for investing the time to listen to our story and we...
View ArticleTech quote of the day
It’s absolutely the worst scenario for us. — an unnamed Samsung executive, commenting on Friday’s Apple victory.
View ArticleSamsung isn’t a serial copier
No, Samsung never copies anyone else. For example, take a look at this new Samsung product. Some might say it is a pretty good copy of a MacBook Air. But those people would be petty. (via The Loop)
View ArticleApple’s apology (updated)
Apple lost a patent dispute with Samsung in the UK this week and the judge ordered Apple to post an apology. The result, posted on Apple’s website, is classic Apple. While Apple acknowledges the loss,...
View ArticleGOP proposes copyright reforms
On Friday, the Republican Study Committee released a paper analyzing the current copyright regime, and suggesting major reforms directed to reducing the public cost of current law....
View ArticleThe real third-rail of politics
The read third-rail of politics is intellectual property. Check out the quick firing of an aid who had the temerity to suggest that IP rights currently in effect in this country do not actually serve...
View ArticleSix strikes program begins
Starting now, a so-called “six strikes” program has begun with at least the following Internet providers: AT&T, Cablevision, Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Verizon. It appears that these five ISPs...
View ArticleTech thought of the day (updated)
Blackberry just announced a major reduction in their workforce. Trading had been halted while the news was released and the stock, of course, plummeted when trading resumed. I wonder whether it would...
View ArticleTech firms indicate interest in Blackberry purchase
Several days ago, I suggested that Apple might want to evaluate making an offer for some or all of the intellectual property owned by Blackberry. Now, it turns out that Cisco, Google, Intel, LG, Samsun...
View ArticleApple v Samsung
Apple announced its first iPhone, in 2007. In the spring of 2010, Samsung reacted by releasing a smartphone unlike any it had produced to date, dubbed the Galaxy S. And Samsung’s new smartphone clearly...
View ArticleIP quote of the day
Overprotecting intellectual property is as harmful as underprotecting it. Creativity is impossible without a rich public domain. Nothing today, likely nothing since we tamed fire, is genuinely new:...
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