Turnabout May Not Be a Fair Play

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Apple: fair play or failure to play
fair?

Apple: fair play or failure to play
fair? 08/07/2004 01:18 AM
Is Apple playing fair or not? On the one hand, it's their device, their music store, and their software.

Other News: Play Fair Already

Other News: Play Fair Already 05/04/2004 09:32 AM
Some folks think Apple lacks any sound basis for its attacks on the PlayFair project.

Fair, but snippy, play

Fair, but snippy, play 06/24/2005 09:59 PM
From USA Today: With boy safe, searchers celebratePrayers answerd in Utah mountains as lost 11-year-old is found after 4 days Maybe I'm feeling snippy this morning, but in the interest of fairness, I expect to see a headline like the following soon: Body of missing pretty white woman foundGod turns deaf ear to distraught parents Yeah, I guess I'm feeling snippy....

FC Now: Intern-About Is Fair Play

FC Now: Intern-About Is Fair Play 09/16/2004 02:49 PM
As summer starts to shift toward fall, it's the time of year in which summer interns depart and fall interns start their work. Former intern...

RealNetworks: MS Won't Play Fair

RealNetworks: MS Won't Play Fair 12/19/2003 11:51 AM
The digital media company sues the software maker, saying that Microsoft exploits its monopoly power to force Windows users to accept its media player whether they want it or not.

Wi-Fi Alliance orders vendors to play
fair

Wi-Fi Alliance orders vendors to play
fair 07/22/2004 01:12 AM
ZDNet UK Jul 22 2004 5:26AM GMT

Is it fair to fine parents if kids play
truant?

Is it fair to fine parents if kids play
truant? 06/17/2004 08:17 AM
Police and teachers are now allowed to impose fines on parents whose children take time off school. Do you think this is fair? Send us your views.

Turnabout in fee flap

Turnabout in fee flap 09/24/2004 05:16 AM
USA Today Sep 24 2004 9:09AM GMT

tech.life@play | Xbox's exclusives play
starring role

tech.life@play | Xbox's exclusives play
starring role 05/27/2004 04:43 AM
Philadelphia Inquirer May 27 2004 8:10AM GMT

Super Science Fair Projects: Complete
Guide to Science Fair Projects, Topics
and Experiments

Super Science Fair Projects: Complete
Guide to Science Fair Projects, Topics
and Experiments 05/24/2004 06:24 AM
Super Science Fair Projects: Complete Guide to Science Fair Projects, Topics and Experiments
http://www.super-sc ience-fair-projects.com/

Today your teacher announced that your school is going to have a science fair and students are responsible for exhibiting their projects. What do you feel? Enthusiastic? Despondent? Dreadful? Fearful? Excited?" This statement opens the Super Science Fair Projects site. Actually, whether student or parent, science fair projects, while great ways to get students actively involved in learning the scientific method and problem solving, can be tough assignments. This site may help you with one of the hardest parts: coming up with an idea. The site does a great job of walking the visitor through the steps needed to plan and implement a project, from Choosing a Topic, the Scientific Method, and writing the Project Report. There are even tips on displaying your project, rehearsing, winning over judges, and what to expect the day of the fair. This is definitely a great tool to tap into when planning a science fair project.[From The NSDL Scout Report for Math, Engineering, and Technology, Copyright Internet Scout Project 1994-2003. http://scout.wisc.edu/]

Play-by-play at E3 games expo

Play-by-play at E3 games expo 05/14/2004 10:41 AM
CNET May 14 2004 2:32PM GMT

""I'd just like to get together with a
guy from time to time just to -- just to
play. I'd like him to be, uh, in very
good shape, flat stomach, good chest,
good arms, well-hung, cut, uh, just get
naked, play, see what happens, nothing
real heavy ..."

""I'd just like to get together with a
guy from time to time just to -- just to
play. I'd like him to be, uh, in very
good shape, flat stomach, good chest,
good arms, well-hung, cut, uh, just get
naked, play, see what happens, nothing
real heavy ..." 08/31/2004 08:45 PM

It’s Not Fair

It’s Not Fair 09/11/2004 12:31 PM
Back in May, I whined that Jeremy Hedley of Antipixel would get better pictures than me even if he was using a drugstore disposable. Well, OK, so it turned out to be a cellphone camera. Sigh. (Oh yes, and Simon Phipps has a little masterpiece today, too).

Ah fair use, where would we be without
you?

Ah fair use, where would we be without
you? 06/24/2005 06:53 PM

Jason Kottke was just on G4's Attack of the Show, and thanks to my hacked TiVo, it's available as a 85Mb MPEG2 torrent.

Jason did great for live TV, which is just about the most stressful thing in the world. He seemed relaxed, though the host seemed a little manic. I assume a producer was screaming in the host's ear to keep Jason moving, which caused the host to cut Jason off whenever he started sounding reflective. My favorite parts were the host violating the Adsense terms of service by goading people into clicking his ad links and the graphic "Blogging for Bling" in the background (because clearly, Jason's only in it for the benjamins).

Fair use, or not fair?

Fair use, or not fair? 04/09/2004 04:09 PM
Last week we posted a story written by my colleague David Graham titled Proven: Windows is more secure than Linux. It was one of the better-read pieces on the site this week. Four days after the article was posted, David did a Google search and found more than half a dozen sites had linked to the piece -- flattering. But at least three sites posted all or a substantial portion of the piece on their own sites -- and that's a problem.

Fair NAT 0.74

Fair NAT 0.74 05/11/2004 09:02 PM
A tool that distributes bandwidth in a fair manner among the clients in the LAN.

It's a fair CoP

It's a fair CoP 03/24/2005 08:31 PM
vnunet.com Mar 25 2005 12:10AM GMT

Fair NAT 0.68

Fair NAT 0.68 05/03/2004 10:45 AM
A tool that distributes bandwidth in a fair manner among the clients in the LAN.

The Fair Tax

The Fair Tax 05/01/2004 09:06 AM
The FairTax is a consumption tax designed to replace the entire federal income tax system, including personal, payroll, corporate, self-employment, capital gains, gift, and inheritance taxes. [more!!]

Hey...not fair!

Hey...not fair! 04/09/2004 04:02 PM
"You look intimidating when you aren't smiling" - Jasmine Lam See...I'm not giving anyone dirty looks on purpose. And yes,...

Fair Use and Misuse

Fair Use and Misuse 08/27/2004 01:58 PM
Here is a very worrisome problem concerning fair use. It has to do with a dichotomy long noted by legal thinkers between the law on the books and the law in action. They often diverge. And fair use is an example of this divergence. As I said in an earlier...

Fair Use with DVDs

Fair Use with DVDs 07/08/2004 08:25 PM

NY Times: Whose DVD? A Debate Over Copies. The free copying tools are available through Internet sites that are not directly subject to American law, often because the nations that those sites call home permit individuals to copy material for their own use. People seeking such tools need only pose the question in an Internet search engine to find dozens of sites devoted to the subject, including the Afonic DVD Guides site (www .dvd-guides.com), run by Joseph Chatzimichail, a 20-year-old electrical and computer engineering student in Salonika, Greece.

Fair Use in Action!

Fair Use in Action! 07/27/2004 06:08 PM

We enjoyed the shot above from the completely legal Barbie-in-a-Blender art gallery, from the folks at free culture. The full story behind the site is here.

What is fair pricing for MT3

What is fair pricing for MT3 05/13/2004 05:03 PM
Their are a few articles out there saying that some of us only want something if it is free. Personally...

Fair Use in China

Fair Use in China 09/15/2004 09:25 AM
That'll teach us for teaching the Chinese about the importance of copyright law. Google has been threat ened for using news summaries in its Hong Kong Google News service.

Fair Use and Licensing

Fair Use and Licensing 08/23/2004 10:05 AM
"Fair use" is a doctrine of copyright law (with counterparts in patent and trademark law as well) that allows a degree of unauthorized copying of copyrighted works. Shocking! Squatters' rights! Can a teenager take my car for a joy ride and when he's caught plead "fair use"--that I wasn't using...

New Photos From Toy Fair

New Photos From Toy Fair 02/15/2004 07:37 PM
It's been a day full of meeting and greeting, walking and talking, shooting and re-booting in New York today, but we've finally hit all Star Wars licensees that attended Toy Fair. Check out the latest offerings from Code 3, LEGO, and Master Replicas...who gave Rebelscum an exclusive look under the case of an exciting new product...the AT-AT walker! More detailed information will come soon, but for now enjoy the photos from Toy Fair.

Fair and buxom

Fair and buxom 02/05/2005 09:14 PM
You can't make this stuff up.

Licensing and Fair Use

Licensing and Fair Use 08/23/2004 10:05 AM
The conventional economic objection to copyright and other IP propertization is that it limits access and by doing so causes a misallocation of resources: making and distributing another copy of some piece of software might cost nothing (well, virtually nothing), and yet if the copyright owner charges a price of...

Photos From Toy Fair

Photos From Toy Fair 02/14/2004 05:15 PM
Looks like things got started a bit early today up at Toy Fair in New York. Here's our first upload of photos from the show. We have three servers with the files on them which should hopefully ensure fast browsing. There is also a set of miscellaneous photos of non-Star Wars things some might find interesting. Gentle Giant - Miscellaneous Gentle Giant - Miscellaneous Gentle Giant - Miscellaneous

Fair use is a right AND a defense

Fair use is a right AND a defense 09/09/2004 02:43 PM
Cory Doctorow: The entertainment companies often tell us that "fair use isn't a right, it's a defense." It's techincally true, but legally disingenous. As my cow-orker Fred Von Lohmann noted today in a mailing list post, "I've heard Peter Jaszi say on several occasions (and more eloquently), First Amendment is like fair use, technically invoked as a defense in court, but that doesn't stop us from talking about our *right* to free speech."

Fair and Balanced?

Fair and Balanced? 10/28/2003 11:07 PM

Bill Gates recently got together with Steve Mills from IBM and demonstrated some web services interoperability between our two companies' products.  It has taken awhile to get to this point, from the initial hype to the point where some of these key scenarios work without smoke and mirrors; so it is nice to see a "status report" like this.

The first response I saw came in the form of this shrill attack piece run on CNET.  The author seems stuck in the last century, when people still bought the big lie about "write once run anywhere".  He fails to explain how "runs only on Java" is significantly different from "runs only on Windows", and completely misses the point that most enterprises have to support both types of systems (and many more) and therefore place a high priority on interop.

The attack piece brought back fond memories of the days when Bob Metcalfe and Jai Singh (now managing editor at CNET) were together at the helm of Infoworld.  Then I saw another analysis in CNET, covering the same interop event, but surprisingly balanced, at least in comparison to the first piece.  Finally, I found yet another analysis on CNET, again covering the same event; and this one is positively glowingly accurate!

What to make of it?  A single presentation by Bill Gates inspires three different pieces in CNET which cover the whole spectrum of opinion.  Can't complain about that.

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Tragically, politics shuts down John Poindexter's data mining program.  It seems that only Safeway is allowed to collect that sort of information about U.S. citizens.

College To Do Away With Fair Use

College To Do Away With Fair Use 12/17/2003 09:34 PM
The latest silliness from our college campuses is this bit of news from Ithaca College, where they're planning to tell professors that fair use no longer exists when it comes to course packs (the photocopied excerpts from various sources that many professors use to give students short excerpts from a variety of sources). While most such course packs do involve some approved material, much of it is often used on a fair-use basis - but university administrators are afraid of getting sued. Thus, they're going to tell professors that they need to license every last bit of content they use. This means that (a) professors will ditch a lot of materials, because they don't have time to get approval from everyone or because the publisher wants too much money to include a single paragraph and (b) the course packs will be much more expensive with less useful stuff for students. In some cases, professors will simply put the materials on library loan, where students will go and photocopy it anyway - basically adding an "annoyance" factor to the process. It's a great lesson we're teaching the students of today when they don't get to read certain materials because it's just too damn expensive.

Fair Use Elaborated

Fair Use Elaborated 08/27/2004 01:58 PM
I've received some interesting comments on my last posting. One of the commenters asked me to explain the fair use doctrine; here goes. The doctrine, which has close counterparts in patent and trademark law, permits a degree of unauthorized copying of copyrighted works. Shocking! If a teenager takes a joyride...

Singapore fair use

Singapore fair use 09/27/2004 08:41 AM
I'm giving a couple of talks in Singapore in December and one of my kind hosts has sent me a form on which I'm to list every copyrighted and non-copyrighted source I use in the handouts, along with this explanation of what constitutes fair use in Singapore. I'd say that this is what we have to worry about our copyright law doing to the free expression of ideas, but I'm afraid you're going to tell me that this is in fact where our copyright law already is. Sigh....

Chipping Away at Fair Use

Chipping Away at Fair Use 10/29/2003 12:10 AM

Ernest Has ‘Way More Time Than I Do Lately

"And doing great things with the time he takes — so check out his blog entry pointing to a wide range of discussions on the DMCA exceptions that were posted today by the Librarian of Congress: Ancillary Works on DVD DMCA Exemption Denied" [Furdlog]

Ditto and "what he said." If you've noticed a slowdown at LawMeme, it's because Ernie's posts are on his personal blog now, and he must be foregoing sleep in order to post as often as he is at The Importance Of (RSS feed here, although I'm going to take a moment to plead with Ernest to provide a feed with the full text of his posts!). He's really been on a roll the last few days.

On a more depressing note, make sure you follow the link above to Ernie's post and read up on the four< /A> DMCA exemptions& nbsp;ruling, too, because today our government again decided that we do not have a right to "fair use" of the digital files we purchase. Not surprising given the way the entertainment industry has framed the debate and paid for legislation over the last decade, but discouraging nonetheless.

If legislators were forced to vote today for the "right of first sale" of digital files, which is the exemption that has traditionally allowed libraries to circulate physical materials, I wonder how many of them would blindly sign it away without a second thought to libraries. If public libraries didn't already exist, would we be able to start them in this day and age? My guess is no.

so it's only fair to join in

so it's only fair to join in 11/01/2003 06:24 AM
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Fair and Balanced

Fair and Balanced 05/04/2004 09:16 PM
Read this Editorial titled Leader: iTunes ain't what it used to be from Silicon.com. If you're like me you'll see many glaring errors. Let's start...

Fair Use in the Digital Age

Fair Use in the Digital Age 08/10/2004 10:35 AM
Out of concern that the Digital Millenium Copyright Act went too far in restricting fair use in the digital era, I have drafted and introduced along with John Doolittle of California H.R. 107, the Digital Media Consumers' Rights Act. Among other objectives, the bill would confirm that a person would...
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