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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

  • 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

  • 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

  • Licensing the Office 2007 UI - what is Microsoft's IP strategy?

    Jensen Harris announced that the Office 2007 Ribbon UI can be licensed . For the last year or so, one of the questions I've been asked again and again has been: "Can I use the new Office user interface in my own product?" I have to be honest - I'm a bit baffled at this whole thing. Note, they are not...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 11-27-2006

  • 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

  • Google adds news archives

    Google announced today that it has "added the ability to search through more than 200 years of historical newspaper archives alongside the latest contemporary information." As with its current News service, Google will merely index the content and will not handle content delivery. They will also not...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 09-06-2006

  • The First Sale Doctrine and the Textbook Industry

    As the price of textbooks climbs, more students are purchasing used copies to help defray the cost. Textbooks are effectively disposable, so there will always be a strong supply of used textbooks. Until now, the textbook publishers have tried to preserve their profits by issue new editions (rendering...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 08-31-2006

  • FairUse4WM cracks PlaysForSure DRM

    The big news last week was that the Windows Media DRM was cracked . Derek also thinks this isn't entirely a bad thing, and in fact this benefits both the consumers and the online music services . As Grant puts it, "DRM doesn't protect content in any meaningful way. DRM does however present an encumbrance...
    Posted to Tim Marman's Loosely Coupled (Weblog) by Tim on 08-28-2006
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