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First Life is refused a C&D

Marty's post reminded me about this great anti-C&D from Linden Labs. This notice is provided on behalf of Linden Research, Inc. (“Linden Lab”), the owner of trademark, copyright and other intellectual property rights in and to the “Second Life” product and service offering, including the “eye-in...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 03-01-2007
How is IP split between separating founders?

AskTheVC addresses the question of what happens to IP rights when the founders go their separate ways . "Bottom line, you have a strong incentive (as does your former partner) to settle this amicably, otherwise, you both are going to be worse off." I thought it was worthwhile to dig into this a little...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 02-12-2007
Would you trust Zamzar with your data?

Kevin writes about Zamzar , a free web-based service that converts audio, video and documents from one format to another (via Download Squad ). Sounds cool, but would you trust them with your sensitive data? I don't know about you, but I barely trust Google or Microsoft with this information. Should...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 11-03-2006
TWiL is finally out, and it's excellent

The first episode of TWiL (This Week in Law), Denise Howell 's new podcast on the TWiT network, is (finally) out . It is excellent, which should come as no surprise given how good her previous efforts with Bag and Baggage and Sound Policy were. This episode features special guest Hank Barry along with...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 10-24-2006
What is YouTube worth?

YouTube is apparently for sale - that is, if someone is willing to pay at least $1.5 billion. Yahoo! is reportedly the front runner (not sure how I feel about this as a shareholder). Jason Calacanis said on the latest Gillmor Gang that he would quit if AOL bought them. He just feels wrong seeing entrepreneurs...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 09-26-2006
Scoble changes his mind about RSS republishing

Robert Scoble is complaining that someone is repurposing his content . It’s one thing to use it in an online news aggregator like Bloglines and its a whole nother thing to steal my content and put a different name on it and then spam everyone I link to with trackback spam. This is content theft and its...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 08-28-2006
YouTube isn't all about copyright infringement

The conventional wisdom has been that YouTube is the new Napster, a business based on copyright infringement . Back in February, Jason Calacanis said it was not a real business but just a "haven for pirates". Fred disagreed , saying the real issue is user-generated content and that "YouTube...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 08-11-2006
Digital music hurts the artists

Grant Robertson looks at the impact of digital downloads and agrees with Weird Al that the artists are getting a raw deal. The artist (Grant uses the Allman Brothers as an example) gets $0.31 cents per song sold on a CD, but only $0.045 for each digital download. The format is crippled, the record label...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 06-18-2006

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