Tag: copyright

IF IMITATION IS THE HIGHEST FORM OF FLATTERY, WHY IS EVERYONE SUING EVERYONE ELSE?

We are a bunch of hypocrites! The other day, Garry commented that Apple is suing Microsoft (again? still?) over copyright infringements while Apple is suing Samsung and I'm sure Samsung is suing someone -- all for infringing on iPhone copyrights. I told him: "In the computer world, every company is suing every other company for … Continue reading IF IMITATION IS THE HIGHEST FORM OF FLATTERY, WHY IS EVERYONE SUING EVERYONE ELSE?

IMITATION AS FLATTERY

We are a bunch of hypocrites! The other day, Garry commented that Apple is suing Microsoft (again? still?) over copyright infringements while Apple is suing Samsung and I'm sure Samsung is suing someone -- all for infringing on iPhone copyrights. I told him: "In the computer world, every company is suing every other company for … Continue reading IMITATION AS FLATTERY

IF IMITATION IS THE HIGHEST FORM OF FLATTERY

We are a bunch of hypocrites! The other day, Garry commented that Apple is suing Microsoft (again? still?) over copyright infringements while Apple is suing Samsung and I'm sure Samsung is suing someone -- all for infringing on iPhone copyrights. I told him: "In the computer world, every company is suing every other company for … Continue reading IF IMITATION IS THE HIGHEST FORM OF FLATTERY

A FINAL STRAW FOR ME

Rich was looking for a picture of a building with an orange roof. He entered his request into Google and up popped a few thousand pictures. Most of them were unattributed and contained nothing to indicate their origin. We've all bumped into this over and over again. Google grabs everything. After the image is dumped … Continue reading A FINAL STRAW FOR ME

SO MARTHA ASKED, “CAN YOU ENFORCE IT?” – Marilyn Armstrong

Wednesday RDP – COPYRIGHT Martha wrote a little piece this morning titled "Can You Enforce it? (and Rambling Nonsense) by Martha Ann Kennedy. It's good reading. Pretty much everything Martha writes is good reading, even when I don't agree but especially when she waxes lyrical and I feel I'm in Grammarian Heaven. In this case, much … Continue reading SO MARTHA ASKED, “CAN YOU ENFORCE IT?” – Marilyn Armstrong

IF IMITATION IS THE HIGHEST FORM OF FLATTERY

Bunch of hypocrites, I say. The other day, Garry commented that Apple is suing Microsoft (again? still?) over copyright infringements. And Apple is suing Samsung (like Samsung doesn't have enough problems?) for infringing on the copyrights of the iPhone. I told him: "In the computer world, every company is suing every other company for copyright infringement. … Continue reading IF IMITATION IS THE HIGHEST FORM OF FLATTERY

IF IMITATION IS THE HIGHEST FORM OF FLATTERY, WHY DO WE NEED COPYRIGHT LAWS?

Bunch of hypocrites, I say. The other day, Garry commented that Apple is suing Microsoft (again? still?) over copyright infringements. And Apple is suing Samsung (like Samsung doesn't have enough problems?) for infringing on the copyrights of the iPhone. I told him: "In the computer world, every company is suing every other company for copyright infringement. … Continue reading IF IMITATION IS THE HIGHEST FORM OF FLATTERY, WHY DO WE NEED COPYRIGHT LAWS?

YEAR ZERO – ROB REID – GET IT FOR 99 CENTS (KINDLE) NOW!

What with the NSA XBox and spying thing -- and now the shut down and who know what else coming to get us, Year Zero gets more and more relevant ... and hilarious. And right now, you can grab a Kindle copy for 99 cents from Del Rey via Amazon! If you have not read … Continue reading YEAR ZERO – ROB REID – GET IT FOR 99 CENTS (KINDLE) NOW!