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  • Arguing Intelligently about Copyright

    Dare has a great rant on copyright . A key purpose of giving authors and other content creators exclusive rights to their intellectual property is to enable them to be rewarded financially from their works for some time before allowing these creations to become "owned" by society. This is supposed to...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 05-01-2007

  • Was DRM-free music an Apple innovation?

    Some people have tried to paint the recent announcement by Apple as example of Apple innovating and Microsoft following . Headlines like " Microsoft changes tune on selling DRM-free songs " are simply misleading - none of the technology companies truly wanted DRM, but they were a necessary evil in selling...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 04-09-2007

  • More on the Music Industry's Slow Death

    This letter from a former customer further illustrates how the music industry is alienating its customers. While I would like to say I responded with something witty, I must admit to being completely flummoxed. There I sat, a loyal music fan who has shelled out actual money to a business that is supposed...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 03-22-2007

  • Steve Jobs and Apple telling half-truths about DRM

    This has already been covered ad nasuem , but I thought I should mention Apple's denouncement of DRM last week. Steve Jobs summarily dismissed Apple's DRM as a result of demands from the record labels. Since Apple does not own or control any music itself, it must license the rights to distribute music...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 02-13-2007

  • The Broadcast Flag and TiVO

    The EFF already defeated the Broadcast Flag once, but it's one of those things that Hollywood is not going to let go of. I noticed on Dave's site that DRM support was added to TiVO last year . This DRM allows content owners to specify how and whether TiVO users can record a flagged show: they either...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 08-24-2006

  • Gartner sends a cease and desist to remove a link

    Scoble passes along that James Governor, an analyst for RedMonk, received a C&D from Gartner for a link . Wow. I obviously haven't seen the letter, but I'm trying to imagine what possible legal recourse they have to linking to a publicly visible URL. Obviously there's no copyright infringement and...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 07-11-2006

  • Commercial Skipping

    There's been a bit of discussion on two patent applications filed by Philips on what the author of this NYT article refers to as "pay to surf" technology. Part of me hopes that they patented this simply to prevent others from using the invention, but somehow I don't think that's the case. ( Aside: Why...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 05-10-2006

  • Warner Bros to start selling movies on BitTorrent

    In another step towards legitimacy , Warner Bros announced that it will sell movies and television shows through BitTorrent in the US. ( The service already launched in Europe in March ). No mention of what format is being used, but the article mentions "new digital rights management (DRM) software from...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 05-09-2006

  • MPAA, P2P and digital downloads

    The MPAA has launched a massive attack on P2P sites, but one of the sites is fighting back . TorrentSpy is a search engine for torrent files - it doesn't host the torrent files or the underlying protected material. In their response, they said that the MPAA might have just as well sued Google . Fred...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 04-09-2006

  • Does skipping commercials infringe copyright?

    Last year, Fred raised the issue of commercial skipping under FECA. One of the provisions of that act was to legalize the skipping of "limited portions" of a work in the context of profanity filters. The Copyright Office reasoned that this exemption didn't apply to commercial skipping, however, because...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 02-23-2006
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