“Awe! Come ON! I made a movie about it. That proves it’s true.”
Director Kappos, of the United States Patent & Trademark Office (USPTO), writes on his blog this week about how the Office intends to fast-track the examination of patent applications that deal with so-called “green” technologies. Great headline for a month ago, when [...]
File under “can they do that?” Facebook notified me of a class settlement agreement, by sending me an in-network message:
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Facebook is sending you this notice of a proposed class action settlement that may affect your legal rights as a Facebook member who may have used the Beacon program. This summary notice is [...]
The Fourth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution protects "[t]he right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures . . . (source)." Since 9/11, a good number of feathers have been ruffled, debating what constitutes an "unreasonable search." Pundits a plenty have been ranting about [...]
I don’t understand why producers of copyrighted content have such a hard time comprehending their customer base. We’re not that difficult to fathom. We only really have a few, simple needs:
We want to be able to get to desired content, whenever and however we want.
We don’t want to pay through the nose for [...]
A few days ago, Facebook announced that it would be changing its terms of service. The updated terms made changes with regard to intellectual property ownership of content that users posted to the site. The changes were denounced as oppressive by many blog commentators. Apparently in response to the negative “press,” Facebook [...]