Good Santa/Bad Santa
Good Santa: "So in the spirit of the times (sussing great gift ideas), I've convinced an old friend, and my former Dean, to spend a couple days in this space talking about his new book, Perilous Times....
View ArticleTrump Violates Patent Law
Via copyright guru Ann Bartow: United States Patent 4,022,227: Method of concealing partial baldness Abstract A method of styling hair to cover partial baldness using only the hair on a person's head....
View ArticleTiny P2P
Professor Felten teaches by showing, writing a tiny filesharing program in 15 lines of code: I wrote TinyP2P to illustrate the difficulty of regulating peer-to-peer applications. Peer-to-peer apps can...
View ArticleWishing You an Un-Merry Christmas
For every $100 donated to EFF, Public Knowledge, or IPac during the month of December, Downhill Battle will give a lump of coal to the RIAA and MPAA: EFF: Protects your civil liberties online and...
View ArticleInformation wants to be paid for
Mark Glaser has put up a long and thoughtful piece summarizing the issues around pay-for-access archives of news content. This issue is particularly troublesome for bloggers and other instapundits who...
View ArticleComments, Anyone?
Sorry guys -- for the past two two days, no comments that you've posted have shown up on the site, although I've seen them come through email. Our technical people are looking into it -- hold tight....
View ArticleNotable + Quotable
So many links on copyright and fair use, so little time. Here are few that caught my eye in the past week: Via Frank Field via CoCo, Metallica frontman James "let's sue Napster dead" Hetfield, on...
View ArticleEULA Nets Careful Reader $1,000
If EFF's white paper on horrendous end user license agreements was the stick, we now have the carrot. Reports Slashdot: When Doug Heckman was installing a PC Pitstop program, he actually read the EULA....
View ArticleTools for Participatory Culture
Good ideas evidently come in twos: Downhill Battle: "The project is a free, open source set of software tools for watching and distributing high quality, full screen videos over the internet at almost...
View ArticleDavid v. Goliath - Starring Warren Beatty as David
According to the Chicago Sun-Times, actor Warren Beatty is in a licensing dispute with Tribune Media Services, which claims control over the Dick Tracy character (Beatty sues Tribune Unit over Dick...
View ArticleStory Updates
Quick updates to two stories I blogged in the recent past: 1. The BBC reports that Brazilian Health Minister Humberto Costa has given Abbott Laboratories ten days to either agree to lower its prices or...
View ArticlePrayers
There has been another terrorist attack, this time taking the form of a series of bombings in the London underground and a bus. Be careful and stay alert today, everyone. My prayers are going out to...
View ArticleGoogle Sells Out Users to Publishers
As you undoubtedly recall, months ago Google launched their Google Print Library Project scanning thousands of books from the country's libraries for potential search, putting up whatever fair use or...
View ArticleShould Copyfight Publish Stories to Benefit Charity?
I have had an offer for a third party to write relevant posts for Copyfight, and get paid in the process. I'm curious if anyone reading this has an opinion. The blog has long had a "sponsor" category...
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