__/ [ Mark Kent ] on Sunday 25 February 2007 07:11 \__
> Robert Newson <ReapNewsB@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>> Mark Kent wrote:
>>
>>> Roy Schestowitz <newsgroups@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> espoused:
>>>
>>>>Microsoft warns of danger to digital music after record $1.5bn fine
>>>>
>>>>,----[ Quote ]
>>>>| Microsoft was yesterday fined a record $1.52bn (£777m) for
>>>>| infringing a digital music patent which could throw into doubt
>>>>| the future of the digital music industry.
>>>>`----
>>>>
>>>>http://business.guardian.co.uk/story/0,,2019691,00.html?gusrc=rss&feed=1
>>
>> This bit is intersting:
>>
>> ``The damages award seems particularly outrageous when you consider we
>> paid...only $16m to license this technology,''
>>
>> Doesn't the RIAA want and outrageous amount per illegal shared track?
>>
>> Seems only fair to me.
>>
>
> Indeed, just as the concept of only being able to design anything if you
> work for a large corporation is what Microsoft want. They /want/ as
> much complex law as possible in order to suppress upcoming small
> businesses which could otherwise compete with them. How many 1,2,3-man
> businesses could afford a legal team?
Apropos...
Big businesses boast of patent benefits, for small businesses
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| A report published by an EU task force on intellectual property claims
| that small businesses benefit from a patent system, despite lacking
| almost any participation by the small business community.
|
| Instead, the report, titled IPR (intellectual property rights) for
| competitiveness and innovation, was written up almost entirely by
| large corporations and the patent industry.
|
| [...]
|
| The report does note objections from the likes of patentfrei.de and
| Sun Microsystems, which were recorded at some length in the report.
| But this does not appear to have impacted the conclusion of the
| report in any way
|
| [...]
|
| Jean-Pierre Laisne, of ObjectWeb, an open source software community,
| said that he found the report useless: participants were told that
| all their contributions would be recorded but at the end only
| those of Business Software Alliance and Microsoft were used.
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http://www.pcpro.co.uk/news/99155/big-businesses-boast-of-patent-benefits-for-small-businesses.html
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