Tuesday, February 19, 2008

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The blog has been on hiatus since the holidays, but we plan to meet at the usual time this month (Tuesday, February 26 at 7:30 PM) at the Ho...
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Tuesday, January 22, 2008

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Although the dinner meeting is supposed to be on the fourth Tuesday of each month, the parent organization copynight.org has selected the fi...
Saturday, December 01, 2007

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Cambridge CopyNight wishes all a festive holiday season. There is no meeting this month.
Sunday, November 25, 2007

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PLoS Biology: When Is Open Access Not Open Access? Since 2003, when PLoS Biology was launched, there has been a spectacular growth in “open-...

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Nine Inch Nails' Trent Reznor Pushes the Envelope Further on the Latest Saul Williams Album Release Following in the footsteps of Radioh...

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Five Free Feature Films A lot of people have asked us if BloodSpell is the first Creative Commons feature film, or the first Machinima featu...

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If it has DRM, you don't own it (part II): If You Purchased MLB Game Downloads Before 2006, Your Discs/Files Are Now Useless; MLB Has St...

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From Ars Technica: Prince to fan sites: No pictures, no artwork, no album covers 4 U Prince's lawyers have requested that three fan site...

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Ars Technica: Overly-broad copyright law has made USA a "nation of infringers" How many copyright violations does an average user ...

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Peer-to-peer filesharing continues to be in the news From numerous sources: TechCrunch: Attributor Launches Service to Track Copyright Infri...

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From Ars Technica: Infringus maximus! Rowling gets injunction against Harry Potter Lexicon J.K. Rowling is suing the publisher of the Harry ...
Thursday, November 08, 2007

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Congress is about to vote on a bill mandating open access to research funded by the National institutes of Health.

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Gigi Sohn speaks at the Boston University College of Communication about Six Steps to Digital Copyright Sanity: Reforming a Pre-VCR Law for ...
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Sunday, November 04, 2007

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Back in February, Jonathan Lethem wrote a terrific article for Harper's Magazine The ecstasy of influence: A plagiarism From the artic...

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VIACOM wants an industry wide Internet filter for copyrighted material: PC World: Viacom CEO Dismisses Google Antipiracy Plan Viacom Inc....

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The Home Video Prince Doesn't Want You to See A bouncing YouTube baby has be-bopped his way right into the legal cross-hairs of the pop ...

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New York Times: Libraries Shun Deals to Place Books on Web Several major research libraries have rebuffed offers from Google and Microsoft t...

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The issue of Network Neutrality has suffered from confusing arguments in part due to incompatible definitions of what neutrality is. Some p...
Thursday, November 01, 2007

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The next meeting of Cambridge/Boston CopyNight will be at 7:30 PM on Tuesday, November 27, 2007. We meet at the Hong Kong restaurant in Harv...
Sunday, October 21, 2007

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The Boston Public Library is screening the 14 part series "Eyes on the Prize", a documentary about the American civil rights movem...
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Vonage Targeted by AT&T Patent Suit Internet telephone company Vonage Holdings Corp. disclosed Friday that it's the target of yet an...

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Can a band plagiarize itself? Music Fan Drops Dime on Nickelback Song Similarity Can a band plagiarize itself? One listener in Canada has im...

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Mark Twain's plans to compete with copyright "pirates" (in 1906) Mark Twain was a brilliant author, philosopher, and humorist,...

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A recent decision by US Court of Appeals goes against business method patents: Court Hits Patent Holders The decision, by the U.S. Court of ...

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The Royal Canadian Mint is demanding payment for the use of the term "one cent" in a promotional campaign. The situation is compl...

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IBM withdraws patent claim Bob Sutor's Open Blog Here’s why we are withdrawing it — IBM adopted a new policy a year ago to sharply reduc...

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The dispute over alleged patent infringement by Linux continues: Linux group calls Microsoft's bluff The head of the Open Invention Netw...

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Can posting links be charged as "contributory copyright infringement"? Major Pirate Website Shut Down One of the world's most-...
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The BBC continues to wallow in the tarpit of DRM: BBC U-turn: Full iPlayer service may never be available to Mac and Linux Users Although th...

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This article doesn't discuss copyrights, but provides some background about "electronic paper", one of the technologies which ...

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The RIAA continues to target university students for file sharing: George Washington Univ. students next to feel RIAA's wrath (thanks f...

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Radiohead was in the news earlier this month because they have released an electronic version of their new album "In Rainbows" ask...
Monday, October 15, 2007

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Today, October 15, is Blog Action Day On October 15th, bloggers around the web will unite to put a single important issue on everyone’s mind...
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Monday, October 08, 2007

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Genetic Algorithm Produces Non-Patented Design Perhaps the most cunning use of an evolutionary algorithm, though, is by Dr Koza himself. His...

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Embrace digital or die, EMI told Guy Hands, the financier whose private equity group, Terra Firma, bought EMI in August, told staff in a con...

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Don't Play That Radio at Work A car repair firm has been taken to court accused of infringing musical copyright because its employees li...

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Target has lost a trademark infringement case in the UK. Thanks for the link, Nicole. Target, the US discount retailer, will face restrict...

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Don't Post This Cease-and-Desist Letter, or Else Greg Beck writes "In an apparent attempt to avoid the Streisand Effect, lawyers se...

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Vonage has settled a patent suit filed against it by Sprint Nextel: Internet phone company Vonage Holdings Corp. took a step back from the ...

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The Supreme Court will hear another case having patent implications . Intel licensed a set of patents from South Korean firm LG, then used s...
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Can you copyright yoga? Suketu Mehta writes in the New York Times The United States government has issued 150 yoga-related copyrights, 134 p...
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The RIAA won a $222,000 judgement in the file sharing case Capitol vs. Thomas. Ars Technica summarizes the case with followup reporting: Ju...
Monday, October 01, 2007

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The next meeting of Cambridge/Boston CopyNight will be at 7:30 PM on Tuesday, October 23, 2007. We meet at the Hong Kong restaurant in Harva...
Monday, September 24, 2007

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A group of 20 inventors urges Congress not to pass a bill that would reform the way the U.S. Patent system works. About 20 inventors and U....

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First GPL lawsuit in the U.S. settles out of court Monsoon Multimedia admitted today that it had violated the GPLv2 (GNU General Public Lic...

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There have been lively discussions this past week on the Harvard Free Culture mailing list about an interesting Creative Commons case where...

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RIAA ordered to pay attorneys' fees. Nicole sent in another link to this story about Atlantic v. Andersen in which the RIAA has been or...

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Lance Armstrong Foundation sues Oklahoma pet collar company Nicole sent in a link to a story about a trademark dispute between the Lance A...
Monday, September 17, 2007

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In a move which might have taken one or two industry pundits by surprise, SCO has filed for Chapter 11 Bankruptcy protection from its credi...

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Filmmaker Christopher Knight has prevailed against Viacom by filing a counterclaim notice with YouTube: VIACOM SITUATION UPDATE: YouTube ha...

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The Recording Industry of America is in the news again. Judge Rudi M. Brewster dismissed the RIAA's case on the grounds that the plaint...

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Last week the Computer and Communication Industry Association issued a report saying that more than 4.5 trillion dollars of annual revenue i...

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One of our topics at last month's meeting was an article which argued that the fashion industry could not thrive in an arena where stron...

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Two and a half years ago, NTP won a 600 million dollar judgement against RIM, makers of the Blackberry communicator, over claims of patent v...
Monday, September 10, 2007

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Software Freedom Day is being celebrated by groups world wide this Saturday, September 15. In Boston, the sponsors are the Free Software Fo...

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The Copyright Alliance returns the volley from the Computer and Communication Industry Association complaint to the FTC from last month: Pat...

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The British goivernment has responded to a petition calling for the BBC to make its iPlayer work on platforms other than Microsoft Windows: ...

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House passes patent overhaul bill ITWorld reports on legislative action by the House The House passed the Patent Reform Act by a vote of 225...

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Filmmaker Christopher Knight posts in his blog: Viacom hits me with copyright infringement for posting on YouTube a video that Viacom made b...

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Prior to the September 2 vote by the ISO, I should have posted this link to other articles about OOXML: An "OOXML is a bad idea" b...