- More on imminent rule on white space devices, Open Source
- More ACTA analysis, from KEI and Knopf, Michael Geist
- French negotiators willing to walk away from ACTA over geographic indicators, Michael Geist
- Broadband Reports hit by Righthaven, response with counter barrage, Techdirt
- Google’s new white space trial, Google
- 9th circuit states secret decision indicates strong need for reform, EFF
- Errors in voting machine highlight need for national database, Wired
- Update on the USCG mass of law suits, EFF
- P2P defendants demand legal fees from Far Cry film maker, Ars Technica
- SCO puts Unix assets on the block, Slashdot
Tag: SCO
Following Up for the Week Ending 7/18/2010
- FCC dodges pointed questions about broadband plan
- SCO evidence of Linux copying finally provided, not very compelling
- Ruling that reduced Tenenbaum damages compares p2p to unlicensed public performance
- More detailed analysis of constitutional questions in reduction of Tenenbaum damages
- Annotating the C-32, radical extremists speech
- Minister behind C-32 backs down from invitation to debate the bill
- Even US intellectual property organizations are concerned over ACTA
- Next round of ACTA talks in DC and Japan
- Full draft from Lucerne round of ACTA negotiations leaked
- First post-Bilski ruling to cite that SCOTUS case
- French legislators have 2nd thoughts on three strikes
- Google fiber project gets a web site but no winners yet
- Lack of funding may bring Chinese censorware to an end
- NZ stands firm against software patents
Via Groklaw. - Guns and Roses uploader dodges serving up RIAA propaganda
- FCC ignores concerns over transparency, continues closed door discussions of net neutrality plan`
- Thousands more to be sued for infringement by likes of USCG
Following Up for the Week Ending 7/11/2010
- ACTA consensus on transparency breaking down
- WIPO worried at why countries felt ACTA needed to be handled outside of WIPO
- An update to the interactive ACTA timeline
- MP Angus calls out Moore, Clement over aspects of C-32
- Mediation in the Thomas-Rasset case fails
- USCG plaintiffs to get 28 IP addresses a month
- Another in-depth comparison of VP-8 and h.264
- SCO appeals
- Comcast settlment now final
- Germany challenging Facebook over privacy of non-users
Via Carey Lening - FCC broadband plan would put US in 2nd tier of countries
- Lawyers pressing NSA warrant-less wiretap cases demanding more then $2MM
- China renews Google’s license to operate
- Australia bows to public pressure, delays plans to filter the net
- Damage verdict in Tenenbaum case reduced ten fold
- Judge says damages in Tenenbaum case were unconstitutionally excessive
- Google found guilt of privacy breach in Australia
Following Up for the Week Ending 6/13/2010
- Australian police to investigate over Google WiFi scanning
- Criminal intent revealed by probe of Google WiFi scanning
- Google releases WiFi sniffing audit
- Google would rather face a single, large law suit over WiFi sniffing snafu
- Former FCC chair won’t testify at Comcast-NBC merger hearing
- Video explaining the latest Canadian DMCA
- More on digital locks under Canada’s C-32
- Redline version of Canadian copyright law merged with C-32
- IFPI doesn’t think C-32 is severe enough
- Targeted comments on the Boucher-Stearns privacy draft
- RIAA says LimeWire is on the hook for $1B
- RIAA may be demanding as much as $1.5 trillion from LimeWire
- Last chance for hacker, Gary McKinnon, to avoid extradition
Via Slashdot - IP addresses of first Hurt Locker demand letter victims revealed
- More targets of US Copyright Alliance speak out
- EFF helps coordinate defense against US Copyright Group’s mass of subpoenas
- Firefox 4 gets WebM video
- More legal analysis of advice to doctors to use copyright to stifle criticism
- India speaks out against ACTA at WTO
- European privacy officials state Google, Yahoo and Microsoft are still breaking the law
- Judge rejects SCO’s motion for a new trial
- Linux wins SCO vs. Novell case
Following Up for the Week Ending 5/2/2010
- German court upholds Microsoft’s FAT patent
- Latest Ubisoft DRM completely cracked
- Feds claim judge is hampering webcam spying investigation
- Comcast supports net neutrality regulation, as long as its unobtrusive
- Details of next round of ACTA negotiations have leaked
- SCO asks judge to give them Unix copyright
- TPB buyer still wants to buy the site, funded by wall calendars
- Veoh fight against Universal receives funding to continue
Following Up for the Week Ending 4/4/2010
- LibDems won’t fight for DEB debate
- LibDems won’t support DEB at all
- BPI has strong feels on DEB, won’t explain them though
- Labour MP submits motion for full debate on DEB
- More reasons to stop the DEB, problems for orphan works
- Tenebaum and attorney ordered to pay RIAA’s legal fees
- Jury now deliberating Unix ownership in SCO trial
- Jury rules Unix copyrights didn’t go to SCO
- Winners out of 1100 applications for Google fiber to be announced byEOY
- School laptop spying cases prompts rethink of Wiretap Act
- EU pressuring Canada to change its IP laws
- Verizon, Google band together against FCC regulation of broadband
- China clamps down on uncensored Google search
- Judge rules warrantless wiretaps in Al-Haramain case were illegal
- Microsoft’s appeal in i4i case denied
Quick Links for 8/25/2009
- Disruptive innovator in college textbooks
Nate Anderson has the results at Ars of an experiment that Ars covered when it launched last year. I think this aligns well with Clive Thompson’s short editorial over the Summer, that the focus shouldn’t be on the future of publishing but on the future of reading. Now, for one niche at least, we have some encouraging hard data. - Wikipedia will require editing approval for some articles
This NYT piece is actually pretty thoughtful, characterizing the change as part of a trend as the site matures. Noam Choen also explains it as a compromise not a break down, necessarily, of the norms or the systems that drive Wikipedia. - Federal circuit overturns SCO loss on appeal
As Wired notes, this is not a win for SCO. Rather, the lower courts ruling has been overturned and all that SCO gains is the right to a jury trial. As the article notes, the “copyright fight is far from being settled” indeed. - Another suggestion of open source as economic stimulus
I’ve linked to discussions of patent reform and separately implementing open data services both as novel forms of stimulus. Matt Asay suggest that healthcare could derive similar benefits from existing investments in open source, or new ones moving forward. - New partnerships for Sony’s forthcoming e-book reader
According to John Timmer at Ars, these will include public libraries. The article also has some details on the soon to be released hardware. If only it weren’t Sony, who has an abysmal track record with DRM, and they hadn’t just announced their intent to wrap the otherwise open ePub format with such restrictions. - Google crowd sources traffic data for Maps
RWW has the details of what strikes me as a very clever bit of distributed data collection. How better to supplement traffic information than from the figurative particles that make it up. I am glad to see Google speak immediately to privacy concerns as they could be disastrous if mishandled. - Three strikes policy back on the table in the UK
Mike Masnick draws some compelling parallels to what happened with copyright term extension, the reversal from the Gowers report to rampant maximalism. Now the same thing seems to be happening despite the balanced recommendations from the Digital Britain report, ISP policing via the disputed three strikes notion is back in play.