Entries tagged with “intellectual property” from O'Reilly Digital Media Blog

Just in time for annual Talk Like a Pirate Day, I got this disturbing note from someone who read my "How to Stop Music Piracy" blog: I recently found an area manager of a store selling illegally produced CDs, mostly dance club mixes by Hex Hector and people like that. He offered ten songs per CD. He makes a...

"It is the marketing term to call things standard these days." All the world's a stage, and all the men and women merely playas. Plus ergonomic keyboards.

Related link: http://www.wolframscience.com Stephen Wolfram's long-awaited magnum opus, A New Kind of Science, was published last month. As recent href="http://www.nytimes.com/2002/05/11/arts/11WOLF.html">coverage of the book in the New York Times noted, "...his claims surpass the most extravagant speculation. He has, he argues, discovered underlying principles that affect the development of everything from the human brain to the workings of the universe, requiring...

Can 'innovative, non-obvious' social instruments and constructs really be given intellectual property protection?

Interesting copyright developments: There are attempts to create a new type of intellectual property right for proprietary collections of facts, (including recombinations of public domain data). Up until now, a partial recombination of public or private facts into a new database was generally not restricted.