Doncha love it When Multideath Corporations Get Sued by Little Guys?
Did @google rip off my band @valleylodge's song?- Ours (https://t.co/CJhaoz87eB) Google's (https://t.co/a98cb0x6g9)
— Dave Hill (@mrdavehill) December 7, 2015
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The music business doesn’t give a sh-t about you, or any of us,” Sinead writes. “They will prostitute you for all you are worth, and cleverly make you think it’s what YOU wanted … and when you end up in rehab as a result of being prostituted, ‘they’ will be sunning themselves on their yachts in Antigua, which they bought by selling your body and you will find yourself very alone.
And this is why I feel a little less than conflicted about pirated music and despise Metallica.
Source: arts.nationalpost.com
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Every decision they have made has seemed to go against the grain of the community, but since it was the only blogging network of its kind with any merit, people stayed.
Missing E came along, and made everyone’s lives better. Rather than adding the features everyone obviously wanted, the company spent it’s time focusing instead of finding ways to ban, or make any user of the addon suffer annoying warnings until they removed it.
Tumblr issued a C&D earlier this week to the website istumblrdown.com, accusing its owner, Zach Inglis, of trademark infringement and trading on Tumblr’s famous name.
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Nice one, Tumblr. -_-
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Jann Wenner knows that pretty faces sell magazines; that was true in the 20th Century. It remains true today. What is different today than in the previous millennium is that hording your content will make you do desperate things, like use the pretty face of an alleged mass murder to fluff up lagging sales.
Show me that I'm wrong by showing me places on the internet where Rolling Stone articles are cross-linked.
Source: facebook.com
Every day, Kathleen Maxian lives with pain of advanced stage ovarian cancer. But it didn't have to be this way.
Women with certain mutations in their BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes are estimated to have up to an 85 percent lifetime risk for breast cancer and 50 percent risk for ovarian cancer. After Kathleen’s sister had breast cancer a few years ago, she had genetic tests done that could have warned them both about the risks their family faced. But because of Myriad Genetics' patents on these two important genes, Kathleen's sister didn't have access to the more accurate tests she needed.
Angelina Jolie’s recent choice to have a double masectomy because of her cancer risk stirred up a lot of controversy, but the point is she had a choice—one that Kathleen didn’t.
And when Myriad Genetics started enforcing their patents, it meant cracking down on labs offering critical genetic screenings and those conducting the kind of research that would benefit patients like Kathleen.
Genes are products of nature—they are the building blocks of life and help make us who we are. They should not be monopolized. It’s like patenting gold or the air or the human heart. Limiting our access to research or testing of genes may have dangerous consequences for our health.
The Supreme Court may soon decide if the breast cancer gene patents are invalid. Most of the federal government thinks they should be, but the United States Patent and Trademark Office is one of the only agencies that disagrees—but it has the power, which is why we need to change its stance.
Tell the USPTO to stop issuing any new gene patents.
courtesy of Lessig:
for my speech @ SCT tonight, an old favorite: Tom the Dancing Bug @gocomics - gocomics.com/tomthedancingb… #tomthedancingbug #GoComics
— Lessig (@lessig) May 11, 2013
Source: gocomics.com
“Farmers are never going to get cheap access to these genetically engineered varieties,” Charles Benbrook, a research professor at Washington State University’s Center for Sustaining Agriculture and Natural Resources, tells Bloomberg. “The biotech industry has trumped the legitimate economic interests of the farmer again by raising the ante on intellectual property.”DuPont competitors Monsanto have been known to relentlessly sue small-time farmers who have been caught abusing their own patented GMO products, but the latest maneuver is being considered by some a form of intimidation. DuPont has cut a deal with Saskatchewan-based Agro Protection International, a company that contracts mostly retired police officers to patrol potential violations of IP law.
Source: rt.com
Berman has spent decades representing Southern California, and has been one of the biggest shills for Hollywood and other forces that seek to censor the Internet: He was one of the original sponsors of SOPA, and unlike so many others who had the sense to wiithdraw their support after the Internet cried out, Berman has never backed down.
But now the LA Times reports:
Berman, who has been chairman and ranking member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, is among those now mentioned by U.S. officials as a possible replacement for Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton when she departs next year
If the United States really cares about global Internet freedom, there couldn't be a worse pick for Secretary of State than Berman, who's repeatedly tried to censor the web at Hollywood's behest -- and Hollywood's been leading a global charge to clamp down on Internet freedom. Let's put Obama and the Senate on notice.