October 26, 2009 | Filed Under Public Domain | No Comments
Two librarians wrote an editorial for the San Jose Mercury News discussing privacy and the proposed Google book deal.It’s good news that the U.S. District Court decided to hold off on finalizing the settlement among authors, publishers and Google Book Search, the search engine’s gigantic new online library that scanned 7 million books from major American research libraries. While the concerns of protecting intellectual property rights are getting most of the attention, there are still too many q
Source:Op-Ed at San Jose Mercury News: Proposed Google book settlement leaves libraries’ rights in question
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October 26, 2009 | Filed Under Public Domain | No Comments
Users who relied on free service locked out YouTube has been suspending accounts at a dizzying pace over the past month. Part of the story is automated bots that find copyrighted material for publishers such as Sony Music and Warner. The other part of the story is that YouTube may be getting too large to manage. Users who have their accounts suspended are allowed to appeal; however, YouTube switched all of the email accounts to gmail logins this month as well. Users are caught in the K
Source:YouTube suspends thousands of accounts
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October 26, 2009 | Filed Under Public Domain | No Comments
Polish developer CD Projekt, makers of The Witcher , have struck up a deal with the tech company Optimus S.A. and as a result CD Projekt enters the public domain and receives a cash infusion. The 23 million dollar deal allows CD Projekt to become 50% owners in Optimus S.A. and Optimus becomes indirect owners in CDP Investment. But what does this all mean for us, the gamers? The simple answer is that CD Projekt Red now has the cash needed “to pursue our operational goals in troubled times”.
Source:CD Projekt and Optimus S.A. strike up a deal
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October 25, 2009 | Filed Under Public Domain Books | No Comments
Right now, Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos is probably peering anxiously over his shoulder, waiting for the Google monster to pull fully into view. And why not? Today, Google confirmed that it was planning to launch an online bookstore called Google Editions, which will go live early in 2010. First things first: Google Editions is not Google Book Search. The two are very separate. Editions, for one, is a for-profit enterprise. The project will launch with approximately 500,000 titles from a range of p
Source:Google to roll out online bookstore by 2010
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October 25, 2009 | Filed Under Public Domain | No Comments
I have longed for an ebook reader for some time, but the most popular one – the Amazon Kindle – has long been reserved solely for the US market. Whilst it has many competitors, like the Sony Reader, I had to wonder about how many titles were available for such platforms. I used to use my iPhone to read public domain books, through the Amazon recently started exporting the Kindle to other countries, so I bought one. Amazon struggled to negotiate deals with European carriers, which was one reas
Source:Amazon Kindle International Version review
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October 25, 2009 | Filed Under Public Domain | No Comments
Intellectual property (IP) is a number of distinct types of legal monopolies over creations of the mind, both artistic and commercial, and the corresponding fields of law. Under intellectual property law, owners are granted certain exclusive rights to a variety of intangible assets, such as musical, literary, and artistic works; ideas, breakthroughs, and inventions; and words, phrases, symbols, and designs. Intellectual property has been categorized into four main kinds namely trademarks, patent
Source:Intellectual Property And Its Types
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October 25, 2009 | Filed Under Public Domain | No Comments
Eyebrowse is an add-on for firefox and a webapp brought to you by MIT CSAIL that lets you easily record, visualize, and share your trails through the web in real-time. Tell eyebrowse what sites to track, browse away and compare. Eeyebrowse also lets you find out what’s hot, who’s reading what, and how you surfing changes over time. Currently, most web browsing data is collected by search engine companies (e.g. Google, Microsoft, Alexa), which is hardly available for public domain resea
Source:Eyebrowse [WebApp]
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October 25, 2009 | Filed Under Public Domain | No Comments
Disc 1 ; Jam & Spoon – Stella ; Art of Trance – Madagascar ; Paul Van Dyk – For An Angel ; Underworld – Born Slippy ; Humate – Love Stimulation ; Agnelli & Nelson – Everyday ; Members of Mayday – 10 in 01 ; Chakra – I Am ; Cygnus X – The Orange Theme ; The Age of Love – Age of Love ; Veracocha – Carte Blanche ; Lost Witness – Happiness Happening ; Starparty – I’m in Love ; Quake ft Marcia Rae – The Day Will Come ; Brainbug – Nightmare ; Disc 2 ; Zombie Nation – Kernkraft 400 ; Storm – St
Source:The No.1 Trance Classics Album (4CD)
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