Welcome to my little soiree, hosted graciously by The Mazburglar, who I’m sure copied the keys to this place using some illegal number his friends at Big Search found for him. Unfortunately, the hors d’oevres are harder to copy, so you’ll have to be c… Continue reading →

Want to know what the toughest gig in show business might be? Perhaps it’s teaching the major record labels how to adapt to new technologies from within. Digital Music News has a list of 34 former execs at the various major labels, whose role it was … Continue reading →

A few yeas ago, David Koepsell, came out with the excellent book, Who Owns You?, with the subtitle, “The corporate gold rush to patent your genes.” It looks like there’s now a new book out exploring the same subject, by medical ethicist Harriet Washin… Continue reading →

We’ve been seeing various news agencies try to claim copyright on any images they post lately, and Christian Tremblay points us to yet another such case. This one comes on a French Canadian story from Canoe.ca. Honestly, the story itself is meaningle… Continue reading →

There’s still a lot people don’t know about biology, and the way biological molecules can be transmitted. Eating food is an unavoidable way of consuming a whole range of biological compounds, and scientists are learning more and more about how foods ca… Continue reading →

The last time Techdirt wrote about the learning company, Blackboard, was in the context of its attempt to enforce a ridiculously broad patent on the field. Even before the patent was thrown out completely, Blackboard made an unusual move: it offered t… Continue reading →

The US Copyright Office, for years, has remained totally out of touch with the mess that copyright has become, often acting as the entertainment industry’s voice within the government. There was some hope that when longtime boss Marybeth Peters finall… Continue reading →