Archive for August 2007
Higher Education Reauthorization Act
The Entertainment industry added an amendment to the Higher Education Reauthorization Act that would require universities to block p2p file sharing or lose funding.
See the article at TechDirt.
second-hand CD sale
The article here is about the re-sale of Promo CDs and the First Sale issues involved, where the waters get muddied very quickly.
What I found fascinating, however, was the second paragraph about new “pawn shop” laws requiring a permit, then the store must thumb-print used-CD sellers, and get a copy of the seller’s driver’s license. The store can only issue store credit and must hold the merchandise for 30 days prior to re-selling.
Somehow I’d missed that, and it explains the local disappearance of the small mom-and-pop used-CD and game re-sellers in my area.
Also see the ars technica article about it.
missing Conference
Unfortunately, I have to miss the IPSC again this year!
But many of the papers and presentations are available on the site.
Current trends appear to be: copyright misuse is big, so is trademark use, and a number of papers comparing copyright and patent and arguing that they should borrow from one another.
