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  • Being better than free when copies are ubiquitous

    The digital world fundamentally changes what a copy means for copyright. I wrote about this in the past from the legal perspective, suggesting an implied license to reproduce and a greater reliance on other rights. Kevin Kelly has a great post up about the Internet's role as a super-distribution...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 02-22-2008

  • Scoble, Facebook and Data Ownership

    I've sort of ignored the whole Scoble/Facebook fiasco, with people arguing on both sides who "owns" the data. Jimmy Gutterman misses the point a bit , because Facebook has already opened up the social graph through the Facebook Platform API. What they don't expose - and why this script...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 01-09-2008

  • Understanding the Cablevision DVR lawsuit

    While I agree with Mark Cuban that the lawsuit is a mistake , I thought it was worth discussing why - from a legal perspective - the network DVR is an issue. Copyright gives the owner a limited monopoly over a few aspects, most notably the ability to reproduce and distribute the work. In a "normal" DVR...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 04-11-2007

  • Abandonware and Unlocked Cellphones

    This is old news, but in the craziness of the semester I never got around to discussing and I think it's worth mentioning now. The US Copyright Office recently approved six new DMCA exceptions , including exceptions for abandonware and cellphone unlocking . This is a good step, but as Fred mentions the...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 01-02-2007
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