May 1, 2006
Bush administration submits annual trade report to Congress
The
Bush administration has submitted it's annual report on trade to Congress.
Some highlights:
Brazil is singled
out as having undertaken "significant" efforts to prevent piracy.
China is si ...
April 14, 2006
TiVo wins damages in suit vs. Echostar
TiVo
has won a patent infringement case against EchoStar, the parent company
of Dish Network.
The case had to do with whether EchoStar
had infringed patents owned by TiVo in the manufacture of D ...
April 13, 2006
Reminder about comments policy
Well, as I'm getting flooded with comments,
it's probably time for a little review of our comments
policy.
Several people have been sending the
very same comments entry multiple times. Let me re ...
April 10, 2006
Problem of content backup
Well, the hard drive on my Dish Network
PVR crashed and died last night.
This might not strike anyone as a terribly
big deal, and it certainly didn't seem to trouble Dish Network technical
suppo ...
April 5, 2006
Does the public benefit from privately-owned goods? or The new anti-IP Bolshevism
Back in February, I gave a speech in Washington
DC before the Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) on intellectual
property entitled "The New Anti-IP Bolsheviks."
The point of the spe ...
April 5, 2006
The Big IP Skeptic Lovefest Is Coming
Later this month there's going to be a
big group hug for all the folks who think that intellectual property protection
is a club wielded by evil corporations and evil capitalist countries to
destro ...
April 5, 2006
Apple vs. Apple
In trademark news, the
Beatles' Apple Corp. is suing Apple Computer over a trademark matter.
And it appears that the Beatles have the upper hand in the matter.
The above link is full of cute allu ...
April 3, 2006
CIPIH Report released and available on-line
The much anticipated (and much dreaded)
report
from the World Health Organization (WHO) on the relationship between intellectual
property, innovation, and public health has been released, and is av ...
March 31, 2006
KaZaa a source of child porn
Little known (at least within the policy
world) about many of the file-sharing services is that they have been sources
of, well, other things besides music.
In fact, several years ago when I was ...
March 28, 2006
Will TCS Daily now begin advocating Google Print?
Interesting
story today in the NY Times about Google's new lobbying efforts.
Now, it is a very good move for Google
to take seriously the threats that come from Washington. It is right and
prude ...
March 27, 2006
Marshall (TX) Law
Big
article(s) in my local Dallas Morning News Sunday about how Marshall, Texas
has become a home for patent litigation.
If you're looking for an article about
how Marshall has become a "judicia ...
March 24, 2006
Technology is neutral (more on "parasitic" technologies)
Stan
Leibowitz has replied to his critics
on his "parasitic
technologies" brief paper for PFF.
(PDF only)
Stan doesn't really concede much to
his critics, although he does graciously concede a ...
March 22, 2006
Thoughts on theft of service
Some thoughts on this topic of theft of
service that has been rekindled by Tim Lee's advocacy of leaving WiFi access
points open . . .
When you subscribe to a service, such
as Internet access f ...
March 22, 2006
Tim Lee, WiFi security, DMCA, etc.
Tim Lee from the new Show-Me
Institute, and a blogger at
the TechLiberation
Front, has just authored a
new paper for Cato trashing the DMCA,
but perhaps more interesting is the frankly
irrespons ...
March 17, 2006
Get ready for free access to all DreamworksSKG films
Patrick Ross over at IPCentral has a delightful
post
about George Soros' imminent purchase of the DreamworksSKG film library.
Why is this delightful? Because Soros
is a principle financial suppo ...
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