Felt pens vs. copy protection
"Remember Angus MacGyver, the secret agent on TV who used household items like a paper clip and lapel pin to best bazooka-wielding bad guys? Well, he's met his match in...
“Web users want everything free” (yet another reason for the TeleRead library model)
NEW YORK CITY (CBS.MW) -- Analysts at Jupiter Media Metrix hold out little hope Web content publishers or Internet services providers will ever be able to generate big money...
Quote, Unquote: PC Magazine Columnist John Dvorak on the DCMA
"Believe it or not, newer copyright laws protect an artist's ownership of an impression for 75 years after the artist's death. Originally, copyright laws were designed to protect artists from...
Copyright extension case briefs
About 15 friend-of-the-court briefs are now reachable via a page on the Openlaw site at Harvard.
Warning to AOL Time Warner: Don’t lay off the proofreaders
My copy is hardly flawless, especially in this blog, which often serves as a kind of public notebook. Just the same, I grimaced when I read the item below--on a...
Bought pols: Campaign donations, copyright and open source
Hollywood's copyright zeal is one of the biggest threats to open source software, as an article in the May 15 BusinessWeek explains. And what about other fun such as copyright...
Reason 1000000011 for TeleRead
"Eager to boost sales, Borders says it will emphasize market research, a discipline largely shunned by an industry that prizes creativity as much as profit. Book editors buy manuscripts largely...
An NPR-style Weblog Foundation?
That is what Jeff Jarvis at Buzzmachine.com has in mind. If the money can be found, why not? Great idea.
Friend-of-the-court brief supporting Eldred in copyright extension case
The Internet Archive, the Prelinger Archives and Project Gutenberg are submitting a friend-of-the-court brief in the Eldred-vs.-Ashcroft fight over copyright extension.Via a Word document on the Archive site, here's just...
RSS feed of TeleBlog now available–so our headlines can pop up on your site...
This TeleBlog is now available via RSS, thanks to the encouragement of Steven Cohen at Library Stuff. See our RSS address in our left column. For those who don't know,...
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A sad tale of Amazon monetization: eReaderIQ and the affiliate program
Courtesy of the Kboards, a worrying item about struggling e-book sites and their ability to monetize engagement with Amazon - or not - has...
