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

Macromedia won its countersuit against Adobe, increasing the likelihood that Adobe and Macromedia will work out some cross-licensing deal

Nice article on how to speed up OS X, and add some favorite GUI features as well.

Apple is suing Sorensen to prevent use of Sorensen's video technology in Flash MX.

Adobe won its initial patent-infringement suit against Macromedia. What does this mean for the Macromedia MX product family?

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.

I was happy to find this... useful for educating people who don't know all these terms.

321 Studios has filed a complaint against the movie studios in a defensive measure that challenges the constitutionality of the DMCA.

Call for papers on reliable p2p distributed systems.

This guy sounds off on the flawed security of commercial p2p trojan horse business strategies. However, he doesn't recommend any alternatives. I think the industry has to solve the mobile code trust issue eventually, not just say "it's a really hard problem.".