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		<title>Know your rights and get them in writing ahead of time &#8211; &#8220;Friday&#8221; video cautionary tale</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jun 2011 17:42:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Tattoo artist sues makers of Hangover 2 for copyright infringement</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 24 May 2011 22:56:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[See the ABC Story here.  Moral of the story?  If you get a tattoo, negotiate a copyright assignment or license &#8211; especially if you work in the entertainment industry! Filed under: Copyright, Uncategorized<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=askinnerlopata.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5344924&amp;post=111&amp;subd=askinnerlopata&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Copyright law impedes access to archive of 1930s Jazz Recordings</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 28 Apr 2011 04:15:42 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This story is another example of the failure of current copyright law in the United States to produce one of its primary objectives: &#8220;the creation and dissemination of information.&#8221;  See Eldred v. Ashcroft, 537 US 186, 244 (2003) (J. Breyer dissenting); See also Harper and Row v. Nation Enterprises, 471 US 539, 558 (1985).  While [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=askinnerlopata.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5344924&amp;post=101&amp;subd=askinnerlopata&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>FCC adopts &#8220;traffic rules.&#8221;</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 22 Dec 2010 00:00:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>Justice Department Taking New Stand on Gene Patents?</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Nov 2010 06:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[NPR reports that a Justice Department brief in a biopatent case signals a new direction for federal gene patent protection.&#160; It&#8217;s difficult to tell from the story exactly what position the feds are taking, but it appears that they are rejecting the idea that a mere description of a gene sequence is sufficient for a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=askinnerlopata.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5344924&amp;post=96&amp;subd=askinnerlopata&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>EFF Helps NoBodyCases.com Fight Righthaven Copyright Suit</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2010 09:15:04 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Electronic Frontier Foundation is helping those targeted by so-called &#8220;copyright trolls&#8221; &#8211; people or companies that buy up copyright rights and scour the internet to find and sue alleged infringers.&#160; The latest case (Righthaven v. DiBiase) involves a company called Righthaven LLC that purchased the copyright to various articles published in the Las Vegas [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=askinnerlopata.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5344924&amp;post=93&amp;subd=askinnerlopata&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Good article about the meaning of &#8220;open&#8221; and &#8220;open source&#8221; software</title>
		<link>http://askinnerlopata.wordpress.com/2010/10/23/good-article-about-the-meaning-of-open-and-open-source-software/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 23 Oct 2010 11:30:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wired Epicenter has an interesting post about how open is Google&#8217;s Android.&#160; Much of what is criticized seems to be the product of the phone carrier&#8217;s restrictions. Filed under: Software, Uncategorized<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=askinnerlopata.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5344924&amp;post=89&amp;subd=askinnerlopata&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Nobel Peace Prize for Linus Torvalds?</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Nov 2009 18:49:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Evidently some have floated the name of the creator of the Linux operating system (more accurately, the creator of the kernel for the GNU/Linux OS) as a candidate for the Nobel Peace Prize.  At first, it may seem far fetched, but Linux has allowed developing economies to benefit from world-class robust software without having to pay huge [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=askinnerlopata.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5344924&amp;post=85&amp;subd=askinnerlopata&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Abolish copyright and patent law?</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 11 Mar 2009 05:42:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[I am currently reading James Boyle&#8217;s The Public Domain, which is one of an increasing number of compelling books and law review articles that caution intellectual property policy makers to consider the negative effects of the ever increasing scope of protection for rights holders.  James Boyle is no anti-IP crusader.  He believes IP law performs [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=askinnerlopata.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5344924&amp;post=81&amp;subd=askinnerlopata&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Does Amazon&#8217;s Kindle 2 audio function infringe an author&#8217;s copyright?</title>
		<link>http://askinnerlopata.wordpress.com/2009/02/28/does-amazons-kindle-2-audio-function-infringe-an-authors-copyright/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 01 Mar 2009 00:54:01 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[As has been reported elsewhere, the Author&#8217;s Guild claims that the Kindle 2 audio reader function infringes an author&#8217;s copyrights when that author has only authorized eBook distribution, and not specifically digital audio reading. As this informative Ars Technica article explains, the viability of this argument turns on whether the digital reading amounts to a [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=askinnerlopata.wordpress.com&amp;blog=5344924&amp;post=74&amp;subd=askinnerlopata&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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