copyright

Court Reporter Transcripts Are Not Copyrighted: Get Them However You Can

September 2, 2009

I still have not figured out how court reporters charge or what they are charging for. All I know is I generally pay something like $800 for an inch of double-spaced pages with 1.5″ margins in a large, mono-spaced font. I do not mind paying the fee when I hired the court reporter, but those [...]

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The new Canadian national anthem

December 9, 2007

From UserFriendly.org: More on the Canadian version of the DMCA. [via BoingBoing]

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Oh, you thought you owned your copy of Windows Vista?

December 9, 2007

The Windows Vista end-user license agreement (EULA) is a 14-page PDF document. (The EULA for Windows XP Pro SP2, by contrast, looks to be only a couple of pages.) This is probably the most concerning part of the EULA: The software is licensed, not sold. This agreement only gives you some rights to use the [...]

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12 important U.S. laws every blogger should know

October 5, 2007

Aviva Directory has a list of 12 important laws bloggers should know about. The article addresses sponsored posting, deep linking, use of images, stolen content, ownership of user-contributed content, and more. If you blog, make sure to read this post. This is a great post and a must-read for all bloggers. I have to go [...]

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The anti-EULA

January 26, 2007

From BoingBoing: ReasonableAgreement.org, the anti-EULA. READ CAREFULLY. By [accepting this material|accepting this payment|accepting this business-card|viewing this t-shirt|reading this sticker] you agree, on behalf of your employer, to release me from all obligations and waivers arising from any and all NON-NEGOTIATED agreements, licenses, terms-of-service, shrinkwrap, clickwrap, browsewrap, confidentiality, non-disclosure, non-compete and acceptable use policies (“BOGUS AGREEMENTS”) [...]

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