The
Artists Rights Coalition has decided that it is their mission to enforce copyright law. It doesn't matter whether or not it's
their copyright -- they're gonna enforce it anyway. An example of the community policing itself or of online vigilantism?
posted by cedar
on Jan 17, 2003 -
4 comments
It's Elementary Watson Apple is a big fat thief, and stealing fromthe third-party devleopers it claims to support no less. An Apple faithful, this ticks me off.
Apple stole the look, very features and functions of a shareware app called Watson and put it into Sherlock3.
Watson is the the very product Apple itself named a few months ago as the "Most Innovative Mac OS X Software". So, they know it exists and what it does, and instead off topping it, they took it. Pure and simple.
Did Apple pay for this? Did they buy them out? Did they even ask? Nope.
This is the final word from Watson's developer. Man they sound mad. I know I am. If anyone can get the word out, MF can.
posted by Dome-O-Rama
on Jul 18, 2002 -
30 comments
Should creation of intellectual property be taxable? The City of Seattle wants to tax the development of software, not the sale, the development.
Across the country state and local governments are starting to consider taxing this. The question is, is software development taxable? If so, is writing a book taxable, painting a picture? People pay sales tax on the software, and businesses pay income, use, and B&O taxes already. Why is this different?
via /.
posted by patrickje
on Mar 12, 2002 -
28 comments
This story is *actually* about Lexis, who got their case file in the first place by stealing it from West, suing Jurisline, who in turn bought their CD's and mounted them on a free website, and winning.
Lawyers, in particular, may find this one interesting...
posted by baylink
on Jun 21, 2000 -
0 comments
Is the Boss really in charge? Tucows is -- supposedly legally -- posting tracks from his early album, "Before the Fame" (though that sounds like a title applied after the fact to *me*).
posted by baylink
on Jun 16, 2000 -
2 comments
So
a few days ago, I went off on some resume sites going out and pilfering my resume off my personal site. Well, I
opted out of
passportaccess.com, and
here is their response. My favorite part: "Once you post your resume or any sort of material on the internet it becomes public information and therefore, can be spread from site to site very quickly." Uh, excuse me? Since when did "public information" equal "copyright-free and we can do anything we want with it?"
posted by mathowie
on Feb 10, 2000 -
5 comments
