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02 Nov 08

The Same Old Song - Wired 13.07: POSTS

lessig asked to pay 800$ to post "happy birthday to you" publicly but encounters more legal problems

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free-culture copyright LAWRENCE-LESSIG law Musicians can prosper in the age of free music

Wired 13.09: POSTS

lessig says that if grokster is liable for building a technology that can be used to infringe copyright, so apple-ipod is liable as well

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LAWRENCE-LESSIG music-sharing law copyright apple ipod Musicians can prosper in the age of free music

Bytes and Bullets (washingtonpost.com)

  • I'm a strong opponent of this legislation, but not because I support copyright infringement.
  • The technologies being attacked by this bill have plenty of important uses that have nothing to do with copyright infringement.
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FT.com / Comment & analysis / Comment - Creatives face a closed Net

  • My kid couldn’t get into college till we sent them his AMVs. Now he’s a freshman at a university he never dreamed he could attend.”
  • “Now that you’ve succeeded in stopping thousands of kids from spending hundreds of thousands of hours to make fantastically creative content that promotes your work for free, do you really expect to sell more records next year?”
03 Oct 07

Patently Absurd (Part 3)

  • But the Court of Appeals reversed that ruling in 1998 and reinstated the

    patent. Even "abstract ideas constituting disembodied concepts or

    truths" could be patented, it declared, as long as they performed a

    useful function. The useful function in this case was to produce "a

    final share price." In other words, the court ruled, software that

    merely manipulates numbers, juggling them and exchanging them and

    transforming them into other numbers, is producing something tangible.

    A powerful conclusion, in a digital age. It opened the floodgates.
07 Mar 07

AI program accused of Unlicensed Practice of Law at WIRED Blogs: 27B Stroke 6

  • (The) system touted its offering of legal advice and projected an aura of expertise
    concerning bankruptcy petitions; and, in that context, it offered personalized
    -- albeit automated -- counsel. ... We find that because this was the
    conduct of a non-attorney, it constituted the unauthorized practice of law.
  • Unlicensed Practice of Law
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