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March 6, 2009Categories: Entrepreneurship
Tags: artists, authors, entrepreneurs, innovation, inventors
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Entrepreneurship in Hard Times
March 5, 2009Dr. Kanwal Rekhi’s innovations provided the foundations for the Internet. His start-up company, Excelan, developed and sold the computer hardware that allowed distributed computing to flourish, helping to usher in the age of the network. Dr Rekhi eventually sold Excelan to Novell and then eventually became a venture capitalist, helping to fund more than 50 [...]
Categories: Entrepreneurship
Tags: artists, authors, entrepreneurs, innovation, inventors, Kanwal Rekhi
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Matsuflex
March 2, 2009“I have the name Matsuflex. If I can harness that Matsuflex energy, it’s gonna help change America in a positive way!” These are the words of Ryan Matsunaga, a.k.a. Matsuflex, one of the participant’s on VH1′s reality t.v. show The Tool Academy. Matsuflex, is one of the program’s finalists and has made a point of [...]
Categories: Entrepreneurship, Intellectual property controversies, Public domain, Trademarks
Tags: artists, authors, brands, controversial trademarks, Intellectual property controversies, license, Trademarks
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Cohen and copyright
February 25, 2009The New York Times recently reported a story on the singer and composer Leonard Cohen’s upcoming tour, after a 15-year hiatus from live music performances. Here is one of Mr. Cohen’s quotes that most grabbed my attention (he is speaking about the ownership of his songs, which have been popularized by other, younger performers): “My [...]
Categories: Copyrights, Intellectual property controversies, Public domain
Tags: artists, authors, copyright, license, sampling
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A Fail Whale Trademark?
February 16, 2009I recently sent a call to readers asking for stories to blog about. Mr. Joe Scarry from Chicago kindly sent me a recent article in the New York Times Magazine profiling the curious rise of the Fail Whale. The Fail Whale image was created by Ms. Yiying Lu. Ms. Lu initially created the image to [...]
Categories: Copyrights, Design, Intellectual property controversies, Public domain, Trademarks
Tags: artists, authors, copyright, Design, Intellectual property controversies, Trademarks
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Copyright Battle Over Obama’s Image
February 11, 2009Artists borrow material to create new art. This practice is widely acknowledged and condoned in art circles. Daniel Grant makes this point in a recent Wall Street Journal article. Mr. Grant also points out, however, that copyright law can potentially render artistic borrowing an unlawful transgression. What is routine practice in the arts may lead [...]
Categories: Copyrights, Intellectual property controversies
Tags: artists, authors, copyright, copyright criminals, derivative, Intellectual property controversies, license, obama
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The anti-Creative Commons
February 8, 2009A few weeks ago I was part of a panel on intellectual property controversies at Michigan Tech. One of the comments I made on the panel is that most intellectual property law innovations have been developed by regular people taking intellectual property law into their own hands. For example, Creative Commons, Science Commons and Open [...]
Categories: Copyrights, Intellectual property controversies
Tags: artists, authors, copyright, copyright criminals, creative commons, Intellectual property controversies, law, law 2.0, legal innovation, license
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Google’s Book Democracy?
February 4, 2009A reader sent me this New York Times article that explains Google’s book project, which recently had to settle copyright infringement lawsuits filed by authors. With the new Google service we will all have greater access to information, a lot of which is under copyright. However, the full service appears to be limited to subscribers. The loophole [...]
Categories: Copyrights, Intellectual property controversies, Libraries
Tags: authors, copyright, google, libaries
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