“There’s a small but ardent underground economy among Americans in dummy addresses and e-mailed scans of Japanese iTunes Cards, picked up by friends in Tokyo convenience stores or openly sold online.” An interesting article in Slate about one way to get around the geographical limitations of iTunes, which prevents cross border sales. I found this [...]
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Google has had great success (read profits) from advertising on their search engine, but they haven’t been standing still and their ‘labs’ have been creating plenty of other products (spreadsheet app, word processor, and online photo hosting to name a few I’ve checked out) For those interested in IP Google has taken to harvesting the [...]
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Yesterday’s New York Times had an interesting article about an Alabama artist who is being sued by his alma mater, the University of Alabama for trademark infringement. The case presents the interesting question of where to draw the line and how much control should universities and others who possess power brands be able to control [...]
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If you haven’t used it, Google News isn’t actually a newsource as Reuters or AP is, it instead gathers source and presents a newspage that was automatically generated from others. The page allows you to view particular stories from different news sources and is a pretty powerful tool if your interested in examining different coverages [...]
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So outside my window here on the 20th floor is a beautiful sea of parking lots, surface lots which take up several city blocks. These must be very profitable as it takes almost absolutely no investment in infrastructure aside from the occasional paving and painting, and occasionally putting up a new rate sign and slotted [...]
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Australian Sharman Networks who owns Kazaa, a music file sharing network has reached a $100 million settlement with the music industry over copyright violations. You may remember the effect of the Grokster case (MGM Studios v. Grokster) holding that file sharing companies despite not providing the actual materials that were being pirated, could be liable. Kazaa’s software was [...]
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You’d think that America’s pastime would just be happy to have fans these days, as more and more turn away from the excitement of baseball to the excitement of ovals instead of diamonds, and pit stops instead of bullpens. However MLB doesn’t seem to want some of its more hardcore fans, fans who want to place-shift [...]
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Interesting article in the NY Times the other day, discussing a lawsuit against former partners of Dale Chihuly the glass artist, for copyright infringement. Dale Chihuly is known for his massive glass works and installations, including the ceiling of the Bellagio casino in Las Vegas. The article points out the lawsuit is likely to bring [...]
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Its only fitting that I welcome back after a 5 month absense due to 'server problems' Professor Edward Lee's blog, cleaverly entitled 'Lee Blog'. I say its fitting only because I occasionally gave him a hard time about the lack of blogging due to his role in encouraging me to start a blog last summer [...]
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I thought there were a few interesting articles on SlingBox legality and I posted an update to the earlier post (see below) on SlingBox. Apparently one of the legal issues is retransmission, I might be unclear if it is part of your agreement with your cable company (but it is part their agreement with content [...]
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