Saturday, November 10, 2007

New story: Eternal Bloom by Clarence591

New story: Eternal Bloom by Clarence591 (muscle theft)

Major League Baseball rips off fans who bought DRM videos--Looks like they've been embarrassed enough to do the right thing, but thanks to this debacle, the idiocy of DRM has been made plain and clear. These corporations are trying to shove the idea down our throats that we only rent or license and not own the stuff we buy.

Amazon's MP3 store rips off your fair use rights--They're asking you to "agree that you will not redistribute, transmit, assign, sell, broadcast, rent, share, lend, modify, adapt, edit, sub-license or otherwise transfer or use the Digital Content."

Larry Lessig: How creativity is being strangled by the law

Start 'em young: WIPO unviels children's copyright law workbook

Mark Twain's plans to compete with copyright "pirates" (in 1906)

Saturday, November 03, 2007