Want to Sell Your Old Software? That May Now Be Illegal.
When I was in the publishing business, I received an amazing amount of software from companies that wanted me to write about their stuff in IYM Software Review. The pile got huge; it literally lined...
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Who Owns Your (Copy)Rights?
On the Internet, no one can hear you scream. Or at least no one cares if you scream about your copyright being violated. A few months ago I told you about a blogger who’d broken a big story. And then...
View ArticleLinking, Framing, and Other Not-So-Dull Copyright Issues
If imitation really is the sincerest form of flattery, the Internet is the most flattering place in the world. It’s not just the bad SEO being practiced by folks like JC Penney’s Search Engine...
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Google, Recipes, Copyright, and Search Engine Optimization
If you want to find a ripped-off copy of the KFC recipe for chicken, or Mrs. Fields’ Chocolate Chip Cookies, search engines like Google are ready to do your bidding. And actually, there’s some question...
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(Copyright) Here’s a Picture Of YOU. Now, It Belongs To ME
Are you using that newfangled Twitter thing-a-ma-jigger? Are you using the oh-so-easy-to-upload-your-pictures-from TwitPic to add pictures to your tweets? Stop It. Right Now. A few weeks ago, TwitPic...
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The Cloud: Important. Cloud Services: Still Stealing
You’re in the cloud, right? Well, of course you are. Even if you don’t think or talk about it using platitudes, there’s some application you use that works on The Internet instead of on your own...
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More on BitTorrent, SOPA, Piracy and File Sharing—and SEO
When I told you about YouHaveDownloaded.com in this story about the marketing genius that is comedian Louis CK a few weeks back, I didn’t realize we’d be getting to pick on the United States Congress....
View ArticleCarpathia: MegaUpload’s Smart/Evil Hosting Partner
This is a story about customer service. Or maybe it’s about file sharing, copyright infringement, due process, and piracy. Or maybe it’s just about being very, very careful with the way you store your...
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Justin Bieber! Joustin Beaver! Copyright! Trademark! Ouch!
Do you know the difference between Justin Bieber and Joustin Beaver? Justin Bieber’s attorneys are afraid you won’t be able to. Can you say “cease and desist”? Bieber’s attorneys have said exactly...
View ArticleWhy The EFF Has it Right—And MegaUpload Was Wronged
Let’s talk law. Specifically, let’s talk about copyright law, and due process. Disclosure: I am not an attorney. But I know a thing or three about copyrights, patents, and trademarks, consult on...
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Influency, Content, Television, Media Control, and Aereo
Television is all about Influency. Media, content, copyright, and now, Aereo. While television networks are beginning to lobby to get Aereo classified as a copy-right-stealing infringer of rights to...
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Who ARE You (and Who Owns Your Website Trademarks), Anyway?
As you build your Influency, you’ll find that there are a lot of things to manage that you never thought of before Influency* became important to you. One is your digital assets—and there are a LOT of...
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How’s This Sound? Live from Yahoo! It’s Saturday Night!
Just how important is a) creating video and other media and b) owning it? Ask Lorne Michaels and the production company that owns Saturday Night Live. SNL has been around for a very long time, and the...
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Changing Copyright Influency (Who Owns This Microphone?)
One day last week, I found this comment in our moderation queue. Kenn Delbridge, the photographer who shot the image you see at the top of a post about the way Influency works with your ability...
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We Own Copyright in This Picture of Andre 3000 and Jimi Hendrix
LOOK! It’s Jimi Hendrix, Andre 3000, an attribution for where I found this picture of probably-the-best-left-handed-acid-rock-guitarist-who-ever-lived and the guy who’s playing him in an...
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In Australia, Movie Piracy is now A Bit More Legal
Ah, to be Australian. Lower population density, plenty of beautiful places, great weather much of the year, and now a little bit more freedom to use the Internet to download movies illegally. Hey! And...
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The Guardian (Design is Dead)
A couple of months ago, we told you that design is dead. This isn’t strictly true, of course, but in large part the proliferation of Internet content and the ways it’s produced has homogenized...
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