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Off Topic - stories on gene patents and extreme sport of overenforcing copyright
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 16 2013 @ 08:15 AM EDT
I just thought I'd share a couple of stories I've scribbled on the patenting
genes, and the extreme sport of overenforcing copyright.

http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/10063/20121104-0003/www.antisf.com.au/index.php/th
e-stories/sex-as-ipr-piracy.html

for a possible consequence of patenting genes; Angelina Jolie should read this.
Then

http://pandora.nla.gov.au/pan/10063/20120404-1100/www.antisf.com.au/the-stories/
mozarts-copyright-infringement-device.html

for a possible interpretation of "copyright infringement device". Just
ask some of our friendly copyright-infringement-in-piracy just how far they are
willing to go.

And, by the way, well done, PJ! Ten years of talking sense to people who don't
have any sense - not an easy job! Well done!

Wesley Parish

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EFF Opening a New Front Against Secret IP Treaties
Authored by: Gringo_ on Thursday, May 16 2013 @ 08:58 AM EDT

Help Us Stop the TPP

documents show that the American proposals for the Trans-Pacific Partnership would export the worst of modern U.S. copyright law, and thwart other countries' ability to create laws that best meet their domestic needs:

The proposed rules could prevent individuals from circumventing DRM—the technical barriers put in place to make copying, accessing, and sharing copyrighted content more difficult. This would hinder technical fixes necessary to make content accessible for the blind or to unlock your phone.

It contains provisions that would, by default, regulate "temporary" reproductions of copyrighted files, thereby restricting all kinds of intrinsic functions of your computer.

It increases copyright terms well beyond international standards, adding some 20 years to copyright terms worldwide, potentially robbing the public domain of decades of cultural works.

In many countries, an allegation of infringement is not enough to get material taken offline. TPP’s proposals, by contrast, put in place a system (similar to the one we have in the U.S.) that encourages ISPs to take down content based on nothing but a notice. We’ve seen how that can be abused here—do we really want to export it wholesale?

Treaties like this also help to fossilize existing U.S. law and force other countries to sign up for American missteps. Momentum in D.C. for rolling back copyright terms and DRM law is growing, but opponents of those changes have argued that lawmakers can't undo their own mistakes—because, they say, we've already signed onto IP trade agreements that we supposedly can't undo.

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Newegg, Overstock win patent fight with Alcatel-Lucent
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 16 2013 @ 09:08 AM EDT
Link

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Oil company executives cannot be prosecuted
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 16 2013 @ 11:07 AM EDT
"Number 10 admitted that any change in the law to prosecute anyone for allegedly fixing the pump price would be forward-looking, and would not be able to hold to account any executives caught up in the current scandal link

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Canipre Caught in Copyright Piracy
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 16 2013 @ 11:33 AM EDT

It's not really a surprise to a lot of us that it only becomes a matter of time before extremists "copyright maximalists" are caught in breach of the very rules they claim so vehemently to uphold.

RAS

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  • They're funny! - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 16 2013 @ 11:52 AM EDT
    • Back Story - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 16 2013 @ 04:22 PM EDT
McBride rides again
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 16 2013 @ 11:57 AM EDT
McBride rides again

------------------- Steve Stites

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Canada - The Copyright Pentalogy: Technological Neutrality
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 16 2013 @ 12:43 PM EDT
Last month, the University of Ottawa Press published The Copyright Pentalogy: How the Supreme Court of Canada Shook the Foundations of Canadian Copyright Law, an effort by many of Canada's leading copyright scholars to begin the process of examining the long-term implications of the copyright pentalogy. As I've noted in previous posts, the book is available for purchase and is also available as a free download under a Creative Commons licence. The book can be downloa ded in its entirety or each of the 14 chapters can be downloaded individually.

The book includes two articles on technological neutrality, whose inclusion as a foundational principle  of Canadian copyright was a landmark aspect of the copyright pentalogy. 

The message from the Court is clear: copyright law should not stand in the way of technological progress and potentially impede the opportunities for greater access afforded by the Internet through the imposition of  additional fees or restrictive rules that create extra user costs.

Michael Geist

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Microsoft to Google: give us the APIs
Authored by: SpaceLifeForm on Thursday, May 16 2013 @ 01:43 PM EDT
Microsoft is baiting Google.

They will not restore the ads to youtube.

They will substitute their own ads.


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You are being MICROattacked, from various angles, in a SOFT manner.

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Canada Courts, Patent Office Warns Against Trying To Patent Mathematics
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 16 2013 @ 01:59 PM EDT
Slashdot:
Canada Courts, Patent Office Warns Against Trying To Patent Mathematics

The original article:
Patentable Subject Matter - New Notices From Canadian Patent Office, Anticipated Issues for the Court?

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Anti-software-patent argument
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 16 2013 @ 04:32 PM EDT
Here's a single memory location. It stores 1 or 0. It has a physical location
on a physical chip, where it consists of a series of silicon structures. Those
structures are patented, which is a perfectly appropriate hardware patent.

Now here comes a software patent. The claim is that, when the software is
loaded on the machine, it becomes a new machine. This claim boils down to the
claim that it's a different machine when the memory location stores a 1, and
another different machine when the memory location stores a 0. But the original
patent was for the device as a memory - as something that could store either 1
or 0.

How many different ways is it valid to patent the same physical structure?

Does this argument make it clear that it is crazy to claim that loading software
makes it a new machine?

MSS2

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Doing no evil
Authored by: cricketjeff on Thursday, May 16 2013 @ 06:07 PM EDT
It does, I suppose, depend how you define evil, but creative accountancy tends
towards that end of the spectrum in my view. Can you really claim a transaction
takes place in Ireland if the salesman who does all the selling and the business
he is selling to are both in London for the whole time, but the Internet page
where the deal is, in Google's view, closed is hosted in Dublin.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22551401

In an open and honest world, of the sort we free software believers believe in,
I think we should try to honour the spirit as well as the letter of the law.

We should patent genuine inventions not forms of words, we should never strip
meta-data from images before re-posting them, we shouldn't buy copied DVDs and
we should pay our taxes!



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There is nothing in life that doesn't look better after a good cup of tea.

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Yabut will it run Windows 8?
Authored by: Ed L. on Thursday, May 16 2013 @ 06:50 PM EDT
Acorn founder: SIXTH WAVE of tech will wash away Apple, Intel:
"ARM sold 9 billion units in 2012, more units than there are people on earth and more units than Intel has sold in its entire history". -- Hermann Hauser

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Real Programmers mangle their own memory.

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  • Windows 8? - Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 16 2013 @ 08:03 PM EDT
Michael Anderer sues his Utah partners.
Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, May 16 2013 @ 08:11 PM EDT
Michael Anderer has sued his ex-partners at Inaura for fraud and conspiracy. The complaint was filed on 2/11/13 Pacer reference at Utah Federal docket - Case 2:13-cv-00111-TC (I downloaded with ReCap enabled, so others might be able to obtain using the ReCap library). The complaint has not been answered, which leads me to believe that some negotiations may be underway.

Anderer and Peter Bookman were in business to develop a virtual computer using a dongle device starting about in June 2007. This is the 2nd iteration-- the first was the Black Dog device that blew up earlier.

The other Black Dog principal -- Ricke White, jumped to Fusion-iO (also in Utah).

The Inaura attempt also became insolvent, but got a patent infringement payment from Fusion-iO.

Peter Bookman rolled another iteration "V3" with backing from DAVID M. MOCK and DAVID G. TURCOTTE approximately September 2010. From a web search V3 appears to have traction and customers for a device that accelerates virtual machines using Fusion-iO memory chips.

Anderer is claiming Mock, Turcotte and Bookman shut him out of the V3 deal despite ownership in the predecessor companies.

Astute readers of the pages know that these principals have graced the Utah Cluster fig through multiple iterations. David Mock, for instance, sued Stephen Norris for a vaporous capital deal, that involved Norris using an advance to jet-set around the world. Ricke White and Mark Robbins (of Skyline Cowboy fame) were at each others teeth over a bad Ferrari deal. On and On.

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Pelican Brief: Brazell and Talos sued for fraud by co-investors
Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, May 18 2013 @ 09:10 AM EDT
The ever astute readers may remember that Stephen Norris and Darl McBride decamped for New York in the company of Robert V. Brazell. This illustrious grouping founded "Talos Partners" and was promptly sued by Mark H. Robbins for shutting him out. This was the "Pelican Brief" case-- the source of the infamous "bulldog puppet" meme used to describe Darl.

In a turn-about, Robert V. Brazell is now being sued by his investor groups in Talos (including, cuttingly, Steve Brazell and Jeff Brazell). They allege that the chief asset of was a Musak broadcasting company, In-Store Broadcasting Network (IBN). Through a series of chicanery, Robert Brazell managed to secure all the payment when IBN was sold to a competitor and zero'd out the assets of his investors. The complaint asserting the misdeeds is online at: JS Online reporting

The case has some news visibility because Robert Kasten (ex-Republican Senator from Wisconsin) is a board member of Talos. Robert Kasten has been a figurehead board member of most of the Stephen Norris-front shell organizations.

The other board member of Talos is a wheeler-dealer type from Puerto Rico named Miguel Lausell, Senor Lausell is being sued for 14 million by a construction company on the island, for brokering a deal with an entirely vaporous asphalt wholesale scam. This can be read about at: Blog Reporting on Lausell Fraud

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