I just wanted to add something to my recent post on copyright on 200 year old paintings. The reasoning behind copyright is that giving a time-limited monopoly encourages people to create new things.
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The National Portrait Gallery in London is threatening to sue an American who downloaded high-resolution digital copies of paintings from their website and uploaded them to Wikipedia. The catch: all
My latest IPilogue article What Jay Leno taught me about domain disputes should be up by now. It presented an interesting problem. Topics at IPilogue are assigned by email a few days in advance. We
The word is starting to grow on me. I used to really dislike it. It sounded like something out of a Saturday morning cartoon. Mostly it (along with “cyberspace”) just encourages people to
As I’m sure you’re aware, in Mustapha v. Culligan of Canada the plaintiff had a mental breakdown after seeing a fly in bottle of water he had purchased from the defendant. The Supreme
I think people enjoy naming things. That’s why we create distinctions even when they don’t seem to serve a practical purpose; it gives us more things to name. Unilateral and bilateral
I just walked by my dad’s stereo and some talk radio guys were discussing a bill that the NDP are putting forward in Ontario to presume consent for organ donorship (odd, Firefox tells me
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