Archives mensuelles : décembre 2002

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SantaClaus.com

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A Lawyer Licenses Her Weblog

The joys of saying IAAL and the selection process of a Creative Commons license explained.

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NetNewsWire Pro public beta

This 1.0b1 release of NetNewsWire pro includes a weblog editor, notepad, Find command, AppleScript support, and more. [Ranchero] Mhh, nice new weblog editor function. I think Kung-Log still has the edge for the feature set and the flexibility (categories, allow … Continuer la lecture

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I gotta get one of those

A meta-disclaimer… [via Boing Boing]

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Hollywood wants to outlaw crowbars

Copy-paste post, as I really don’t have time to edit anything this morning. Afternoon. Damn. You get the point. Great quote from Patricia Benson, an attorney for the movie studios suing 321 Studios, who make DVD copying software that can … Continuer la lecture

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Broken by design

No no, I’m not talking about everyone’s favorite operating system. Next time maybe. To me it is almost an urban legend that MiniDisc devices, consumer level ones at least, did not allow digital output. It seems it is still true, … Continuer la lecture

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Short and sweet

Bill Clinton: America should lead, not dominate Well, giving the Marshall plan as an example maybe isn’t the most positive reference, but I feel the article is rather sincere. Was that an implied reference to the inadequacy of the UN … Continuer la lecture

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What’s wrong with the war on ‘Net piracy?

Ken Hertz’s 2002 ACLU Bill of Rights Award speech: What’s wrong with the war on ‘Net piracy?Here‘s a copy of the acceptance speech given by entertainment industry attorney Ken Hertz (of the firm Goldring, Hertz, Lichtenstein and Haft, LLP) at … Continuer la lecture

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Pulling the DMCA blanket away from CSS.

DMCA Harms and CSS as an Access Control Device: regarding an eventual exemption to the DMCA for CSS, the wonderful and lovable companion to DeCSS [via LawMeme]

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Creative Commons

Everyone and their dog is blogging about Creative Commons. A (primarly, for the time being) build-your-licence website sponsored by a whole bunch of interesting people. I really like the slogan, « legal code » In a way, it reminds me of P3P, … Continuer la lecture

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QoS

Quality of Service is unnecessary? Is throwing more bandwidth at the issue really a solution? I care because QoS is a form of technological norm that is very potent. It does have the capacity to shape the environment and influence … Continuer la lecture

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La CAI frappe encore

Monsieur le Ministre, La Commission d’acès à l’information du Québec a entrepris une étude concernant le projet de loi sur l’accès légal au Canada, plus précisément axée sous l’angle de la protection des renseignements personnels. En voici la lettre introductive. … Continuer la lecture

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Bill on Internet Retransmission Passed

OTTAWA, December 13, 2002 — Minister of Canadian Heritage Sheila Copps and Industry Minister Allan Rock today announced the passage of Bill C-11, an Act to amend the Copyright Act. This Bill is the first in a series of initiatives … Continuer la lecture

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Private copying in France

It seems that France is keeping on track with the adoption of a tariff similar to the canadian tariff 22 regarding blank digital media. They also tax hard disk in Tivo-like devices. I think those tariffs are generally a good … Continuer la lecture

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I had a (weird) dream

I woke up last night. and I had an thought on mind. I doesn’t make anymore sense now than it did 6 hours ago though. I was wondering why there isn’t the equivalent of the Dewey decimal system for supermarkets. … Continuer la lecture

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