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Forever Geek Nerds Are For Dorks[Forever Geek Nerds Are For Dorks] I'm not sure if they can be sued for the design. Even if Apple has a copyright of the Mini design, AOpen can argue that the Mini design isn't substantial or creative enough to be protected by copyright law--and it often works for such simple design. If that fails, they can then argue that their own design is different enough from the Mini: There aren't *that* many alternative shapes available for a tiny pc. Can a small metal box with a slot for cd really be copying someone?

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[Tales From the Rust Belt] Giving It All Away: Examining bathrooms was Rucker’s least favorite thing to do in these situations. It was bad enough that some poor bastard had gotten himself killed for some as yet unknown reason but Rucker most definitely did not want to know if he had athlete’s foot, genital warts or hemorrhoids. Going through the contents of someone’s bathroom medicine cabinet was sometimes more disturbing than going through their other personal possessions. These things were meant to be kept private but his job made him the ultimate voyeur.

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http://indi.ca [Indi.ca] indi.ca » Blog Archive » Copyright Isn’t Moral (or immoral): Regardless of the specific point of division, copyright as we know it today was not present in ancient oral cultures (Bettig 11) and is not present in modern oral cultures like that of the Balinese (Ploman and Hamilton 4). Why the concept of intellectual property is evident in highly literate cultures and not in oral cultures can perhaps be best understood in terms of the social and political context of their respective historical periods. One explanation that is that the chosen mediums of oral and literate cultures are qualitatively different and that each engenders a different set of social norms to guide intellectual production. What this paper seeks to do is to pursue this line of questioning by discerning what the medium was for each culture, analyzing the nature of each medium, and, finally, explaining how the medium determined whether or not the concept of intellectual property emerged.

http://indi.ca [Indi.ca] indi.ca » Blog Archive » Copyright Isn’t Moral (or immoral): This entry was posted on Monday, October 25th, 2004 at 7:03 pm and is filed under Web/Tech, McGill, Internet Law. Do check kottu.org for more Sri Lankan blogs

http://indi.ca [Indi.ca] indi.ca » Blog Archive » Copyright Isn’t Moral (or immoral): The crucial concept is that the social norms are based on the nature of the medium, and that humans are the active agents choosing those norms. With the issue of intellectual production, oral cultures didn’t choose to make intellectual property a norm while literate cultures did. The nature of the medium just determined which was the wiser choice for the time.

Blog.ziffdavis.comhttp://blog.ziffdavis.com [Blog.ziffdavis.com] David Coursey Today: AOL says it's going to make minor changes to the terms of service for its AOL Instant Messenger product in response to paranoid bloggers who don't know the difference between sending an IM and posting content. Since these people post stuff to their blogs and probably send instant messages, I'd thought they'd have understood the difference. I mean, what part of the phrase, “items you post” don't these people understand? Geez....

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