In this interesting story1 in the Washington Post, the congress is appealing to a private holding company in Arlington (NTP) to let the Blackberry stay alive. Apparently, the Blackberry is in violation of patents owned by the company and now the company wants to shut the service down and …

According to this article The Chamberlain Group (manufacturers of upscale garage door openers) has sued a manufacturer of universal garage door openers under (among other things) the DMCA for circumventing their "copy protection" scheme. Perhaps this case is silly enough to cause the DMCA to go down? Once again, the …

Following up on a story posted yesterday, I found a page with information comparing the US and EU Copyright terms. There's a good summary of the copyright terms in the US and the EU available here. From this, it appears that we are basically in line with the Europeans thanks …

The Supreme Court of the US has decided that it is OK for the congress to extend copyright protection (as it had in a law in 1998) to 95 years for works for hire and life+70 for works made by individuals. Hailed as a victory for the movie and …

As announced yesterday, Microsoft has reached a tentative agreement with the State of California to settle outstanding anti-trust claims made by the state against the company. Apple Computer has taken the bold step of opposing this settlement on the grounds that it may actually benefit Microsoft, due to the manner …

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This is one of the better short statements about ICANN that I've read. Well thought out and to the point, it lists the various offenses of this offensive organization and serves as a call to arms (or keyboards) against the body.Read it Here

I've spent the last week in San Francisco meeting with old and new friends and taking in MacWorld San Francisco 2003. Here are some thoughts the way trade shows seem to be going. I'll put up another posting specifically about this show. After attending a large number of conferences and …

We're using some new software for Gaige's Pages. Stay tuned for some rapid changes and some actual content. I decided to finally give in and use a prepared content management system, since I found that GeekLog is quite a spiffy little piece of software. The point of this particular site …