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:: Thursday, January 10, 2008 ::

"We would prefer that consumers stop using their brains altogether"

RIAA satire on News Target:
On the heels of the RIAA's recent decision to criminalize consumers who rip songs from albums they've purchased to their computers (or iPods), the association has now gone one step further and declared that "remembering songs" using your brain is criminal copyright infringement. "The brain is a recording device," explained RIAA president Cary Sherman. "The act of listening is an unauthorized act of copying music to that recording device, and the act of recalling or remembering a song is unauthorized playback."

[thanks meatsock]

Labels: Copyright, Humour, IP

:: Dan 10.1.08 [Arc] [0 comments] [links to this post] ::
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Gowers Review Bingo
The Rambler marks the first anniversary of the Gowers Review into intellectual property law with a quick summery of its recommendations, and a note of hope that it may be implemented now that the person who commissioned it is in number 10.

Incidentally, I've just noticed that when that post was published two weeks ago, GussetBlog also turned five! Hooray for us!

Labels: Gusset, IP, Law

:: Dan 5.12.07 [Arc] [0 comments] [links to this post] ::
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'A new front has opened in the War On Intellectual Property Theft: a campaign to block users of the open-source web browser Firefox from websites, because Firefox enables users to block ads ("steal content")'

Labels: FOSS, Internet, IP

:: Dan 20.8.07 [Arc] [0 comments] [links to this post] ::
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