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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
When will the NFL Network standoff end?

Like so many others , I was furious when I couldn't watch the Packers-Cowboys games a few weeks back. The NFL Network is only carried on satellite which is simply not an option for many of us in urban areas like NYC. For those who haven't been paying attention, there's been a long-running...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 12-27-2007
Why Notches isn't "Anti-Stealth"

There's been a lot of discussion about being anti-stealth . A stealth startup is one that isn't telling anyone what they're building and being very protective about the idea. Anti-stealth is the polar opposite - broadcasting everything, from your long-term vision, project status, and even...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 11-26-2007
Professional bloggers get journalist rights

On August 1st, a congressional panel voted to protect journalists from having to reveal their confidential sources, and explicitly included "professional bloggers" in the category ( via Lena ). This is definitely a step in the right direction. Ultimately, I believe it should be a functional...

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 08-17-2007
Friday Fun: The perfect car for Manhattan?

The perfect car for Manhattan - or just an extra from the Transformers movie?

Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 07-06-2007
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

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