I appreciate the desire to protect one’s intellectual property as much as the next guy, but this is kind of creepy, if you ask me. Microsoft, evidently, has applied for a patent under the title “Content Distribution Regulation By Viewing User.” OK, that sounds sort of dicey… but let’s hope that the summary of the…
With the election now over, one hopes that the three branches of our federal government will turn their attention fully to the pressing policy issues of the day, chief among those issues being the looming “fiscal cliff” facing the country at the year’s end. Will intellectual property issues also see action in the months ahead?…
Twitter’s legal policy manager, Jeremy Kessel, announced on Friday a change in Twitter’s handling of tweets that the social messaging platform receives DMCA take-down requests for. Going forward, such tweets will be “withheld” rather than deleted, replaced by a brief message noting the reason for the tweet being withheld. According to GigaOm, which first reported…
Last week, the Copyright Office published its final rule regarding “Exemption to Prohibition on Circumvention of Copyright Protection Systems for Access Control Technologies.” Much like its tongue-twisting mouthful of a title, the document itself is not what you’d call “light reading” – but it yeezy replica is undeniably an important development for rights-holders, technologists, consumers…
