NY Times article by David Pogue: ‘Google Video: Trash Mixed With Treasure.’
Background discussion in YouTube here.

Denise Howell provides all the links you need to get started in meditating upon this week’s brouhaha: To what extent are RSS Feeds protected by copyright, trademark and unfair competition laws?

Via Kottke, a Washington Post article on protection of recipes
One should distinguish between a recipe, a textual rendering ofa recipe, and a compilation of recipes. Publications Intl. v. Meredith, 88 F.3d 473 (7th Cir. 1996) dealt with alleged infringement of a recipe book:
“The identification of ingredients necessary for the preparation of each dish…

Patry: In Praise Of Imitation.

Tech Law Advisor takes on splogs (evil robots who re-post blog content word for word to create a pretense for running keyword ads), asking for much less than the one triillion dollars penalty I had proposed.

Via Prof. Patry, Aharonian v. Gonzales, pro se attack on software copyrightability, brought by patent ‘advocate.’