My friend Denise Howell coined the term ‘Blawg’ and I suspect that she is now sorry she did.
Do You Know Where Your Website Design Has Been?
I suppose that this disclaimer should be applied to most of my postings but to this one in particular: I point to items of interest that usually don’t provide all the information necessary to come to any sort of legal conclusion (in other words I’m not saying who’s right and who’s wrong):
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Jane Austen Returns
Copyfight on the re-branding of Jane Austen.
A Suspiciously Waitsian Voice
Prof Patry on Tom Waits on those who mimic Waits for profit.
Trivia: Which Tom Waits song contains the lyric: “Change your life, change into a 9 year old Hindu boy”?
Answer here.
NY Times on Google Video
NY Times article by David Pogue: ‘Google Video: Trash Mixed With Treasure.’
Background discussion in YouTube here.
Logo Not Copyright Management Information Under DMCA
Removal of a trademark logo and link is not ‘removal of copyright management information’ as barred by the DMCA. The District Court for New Jersey dimissed a copyright claim, interpretating ‘copyright management information’ as being part of an automated system, not part of a manual system (such as affixation of a copyright notice).
IQ Group
RSS, Copyright, and Unfair Competition
YouTube and Google Video
YouTube.com provides short video downloads. It reportedly receives 8000 new videos a day. A lot of these videos are mash-ups of copyrighted material. A favorite in my house consists of the characters from Naruto singing the Charlie and the Chocolate Factory song.
Many of the videos on YouTube (and Google Video) are amateurish (in good