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New Kindle Audio Feature Causes a Stir
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| "They don't have the right to read a book out loud," said Paul Aiken,
| executive director of the Authors Guild. "That's an audio right, which is
| derivative under copyright law."
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http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123419309890963869.html
Serious Worries About Locking Up Synthetic Biology Through Patents
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| And the concerns can go much further. In James Boyle's The Public Domain, he
| spends the second half of chapter 7 quite worried about efforts to lock up
| the basic building blocks of synthetic biology. As he notes, synthetic
| biology is quite similar in many ways to software -- and locking it up with
| patents would have the same disastrous implications as software patents
| currently do. Luckily, the early days of software did not involve patents,
| but the same cannot be said for synthetic biology. Boyle notes:
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| It would be as if, right at the beginning of the computer age, we had
| issued patents over formal logic in software -- not over a particular
| computer design, but over the idea of a computer or a binary circuit
| itself.
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http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20090208/1951363692.shtml
How will you pay for your thoughts, PUNK?
Recent:
If No One Sees It, Is It an Invention?
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| The video showed how, in a few easy steps, the Nintendo Wii remote controller
| — or “Wiimote” — could transform a normal video screen into a virtual reality
| display, with graphics that seemed to pop through the screen and into the
| living room. So far, the video has been seen more than six million times.
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| That video, together with others that Mr. Lee, now 28, posted on YouTube,
| have drawn people to the innovator as well as his innovations. Video game
| companies have contacted him and, in September, M.I.T.’s Technology Review
| named him as one of its top innovators under 35.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2008/10/26/business/26proto.html?ref=technology
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