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Microsoft Wave has ups and downs
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| After much thought, I remain baffled. Technically, it's otiose: you can
| trademark logos and names, but copyright is automatic in new work, as we
| should all know in these days of heightened IP awareness. Trademarking makes
| sense, as it does give you additional, powerful legal safeguards, but
| Microsoft Wave hasn't been trademarked in the UK. The only thing the
| copyright symbol can refer to is the logo itself - but why bother? The
| behemoth doth protest too much. It's almost as if it's nervous that it might,
| after all, be infringing on someone else's IP, and feels the need for some
| magic amulet to ward off evil.
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| The effect on us hyper-sensitive watchers of intellectual property is quite
| different: it's a bit like getting a manuscript from a wannabe writer which
| has (C) FRED BLOGGS and a paragraph of legalese as a footnote on every page -
| somebody who hasn't quite got it.
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http://community.zdnet.co.uk/blog/0,1000000567,10013317o-2000331777b,00.htm
AP: “We’re Done” Answering Questions About Fair Use & Our Rights System
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| Still confused about the Associated Press’s announcement last week about a
| new content tagging system that’s supposed to provide rights information? I
| am — but the AP’s apparently not talking to anyone further about it.
|
| “For the moment, we’re done,” said AP spokesperson Paul Colford. “We’ve
| spoken to innumerable people,” he said, and now the AP is going to “leave the
| phone at rest” and “tend to our knitting” to “refine and improve” things.
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http://daggle.com/ap-were-done-1151
Recent:
Don't Sue Me, Bro... Taser Drops Suit Against Second Life
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| TASER International has - at least for now - dropped a trademark infringement
| suit against Linden Lab, which operates Second Life.
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http://www.gamepolitics.com/2009/07/25/don039t-sue-me-bro-taser-drops-suit-against-second-life
Trademark Insanity
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| It's bad enough that we have to deal with struggles over the use of
| trademarks that have become generic terms, like "Xerox" and "Coke", and
| trademarks that were already generic terms among specialists, such
| as "Windows", but a new low in trademarking has been reached by the joint
| efforts of Dell and the US Patent and Trademark Office. Cyndy Aleo-Carreira
| reports that Dell has applied for a trademark on the term "cloud computing".
| The opposition period has already passed and a notice of allowance has been
| issued. That means that it is very likely that the application will soon
| receive final approval.
|
| [...]
|
| In other words, this is a pure example of theft from the public domain.
| Speakers of English have a term, "cloud computing", which the US government
| is on the verge of privatizing and assigning exclusively to Dell. Other
| companies providing similar services will not be able to describe what they
| are doing as "cloud computing" anymore than Nike will be able to describe its
| shoes as Reeboks.
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http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/?p=434
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