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The Impending End of Knol

In the post Impact of Demise of GeoCities on Online Software Development References, I discussed the potential loss of intellectual assets with the shuttering of GeoCities. More intellectual assets may be lost with the impending shuttering of Google’s … Continue reading

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Sneeje’s Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week

When I read Techdirt, one of the things I’m looking for are articles that help me understand the complex considerations between governmental power and individual rights. They interest me because I find that they always force me to deeply consider my o… Continue reading

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Seven NetBeans Hints for Modernizing Java Code

In the post Seven Indispensable NetBeans Java Hints, I talked about using NetBeans hints in general and then focused on seven hints in particular. The seven hints emphasized in that post are listed next:

Suspicious Method Call
Comparing Strings Using … Continue reading

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Case Study On How An Indie-Rock Composer Musician Makes Money

We’ve talked about the Future of Music Coalition’s excellent Artist Revenue Streams project for a while now, and over the last few months they’ve been releasing more and more results from the project. At some point in the future I’ll have to dig more … Continue reading

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NBC Universal Caught Using Infringing Graphic From Apple, Probably Won’t Learn Anything

Copyright infringement is easy. It’s so easy that virtually everyone does it sometimes without even realizing—including some of the loudest cheerleaders for stronger copyright enforcement. We’ve pointed out several examples in the past: France’s … Continue reading

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EFF Slams Righthaven CEO For Pretending He Can Ignore Court Orders

We recently wrote about Righthaven CEO Steve Gibson’s bizarre claim that a court order directed at him is inapplicable because he’s just the CEO, and the company’s own lawyers (who he blames everything on) won’t return his calls. Now the EFF (who is re… Continue reading

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DailyDirt: Tracking Down Your Food

Poking through your fridge for a snack doesn’t quite count as hunting for food. Not too many of us actually kill what we eat or farm fruits and vegetables, but there are a few online tools that’ll help people see where they’re food is coming from. Here… Continue reading

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No, Telling Customers Why Your Product Is Better Than A Competitor’s Is Not Trademark Infringement

Every time I read an opinion like this ruling in AR Pillow Inc. v. Cottrell, a little piece of me dies. This is a ridiculously easy case, yet somehow it got all tangled up.

The litigants are rival vendors of similar products to combat baby acid reflu… Continue reading

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White House’s New Report On Intellectual Property Enforcement Should Get A Copyright As A Creative Work Of Fiction

The 2008 ProIP Act put in place a number of problematic things, including (via a very sneaky backdoor method) the ability for the US government to directly censor websites (something many people thought was in SOPA but which is already a part of the la… Continue reading

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Major League Soccer Abusing The DMCA To Censor Controversial Clip Of Player Misconduct

Back in 2008, we wrote about how Major League Soccer (MLS) was abusing the DMCA to take down video clips which it had absolutely no copyrights over (the event was not filmed or broadcast by MLS) because it didn’t like the content (showing a fight that … Continue reading

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