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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
Friday Fun: Hillary's inner Flick

Tim Lee on TechDirt discusses the copyright implications of this Slate video . The copyright discussion is interesting and worth revisiting next week, but I figured for this edition Friday Fun I'd share the video if you haven't already seen it. (It helps if you've seen Election ). Clever...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 01-25-2008
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
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
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
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
Students sue anti-cheating company

Prof. Patry passes along an interesting story . Four students are suing a company that compares submitted papers to a database to test for plagiarism. The service seeks to root out cheaters by comparing student term papers and essays against a database of more than 22 million student papers as well as...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 04-03-2007
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
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
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

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