Morrie the Toupee Salesman

“The federal Conservatives are set to introduce new copyright legislation as soon as this week that will include provisions to target users with a $500 fine for all illegal files transferred online, a move that legal experts say could see Canadians sued for hundreds of thousands of dollars if found guilty of infringement.”
That’s the Conservative […]

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Techmeme has a link to a password-protected piece of what looks like it’s going to be “Canada needs to adopt more draconian US-style measures like the DMCA” piece. Not sure why the abstract merits appearing at all. But the piece is written by someone named “Michael Eisen”
One and the same? It’s common practice in the […]

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An entertaining article in the Financial Times today. While I have gained some sympathy for the rank and file who might see their job threatened by the decline of the music industry, I have little respect for the braying of the bigwigs. I love the apt simile chosen by the speaker talked about in this […]

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Here. I can honestly say “I did that.” Picked the license, got approval from our lawyers, changed the copyright notice. I remember feeling a bit subversive at the time. I told people over and over - public domain - public domain - just so I wouldn’t get the blame later if there was blame […]

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and immediately rip them to my computer. Now the RIAA is telling me not to buy their product. I’ll miss ‘em a little.

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Interesting article on the intellectual property issues involved with scraping and APIs. The discussion with the Yelp guy and his discussions with Google highlight something I’m interested in. APIs are invariably for non-commercial use only, which makes them less useful, since if you actually have any success with a service built on top of other […]

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