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Putting Mr. Angus' private members Copyright bill in context: locks, lawsuits, levies and licensing.
On March 16, 2010, NDP digital issues critic Charlie Angus (Timmins-James Bay) tabled Motion 506 to expand Fair Dealings as well as a private members bill Bill C-499: An Act to amend the Copyright Act (audio recording devices) which seeks to extend the existing Private Copying regime for audio recording to devices. The next day the Heritage committee tabled a motion supporting the extension of the regime to devices, indicating the support of the Liberals and Bloc for this policy direction.
While I fully support the motion on extending Fair Dealings, the impact of the private members bill is much more complex and needs discussion. This is what Mr. Angus intended.
to unify work and love
Sigmund Freud once said that in order to be truly happy in life, a human being needed to acquire two things: The capacity to work, and the capacity to love.
“EVIL PLANS” is really about being able to do both, at the same time.
This is my tenth year blogging. I’ve done a lot of stuff since I started. Published cartoons, sold wine, sold suits, pimped Microsoft, sold art, written e-books, ranted on endlessly about marketing and all sorts…
But looking back, I realize it all served a served a common purpose: to unify work and love.
Then I notice, the people who read my blog the most avidly, and the bloggers I tend to read most avidly, hell yeah, they’re mostly trying to do the same thing too, in their own way. It’s a definite pattern.
To unify work and love. Are you one of these people? If not, don’t you think you should be? I mean, after friends and family, what the hell is there?
Just askin’…
Bruce Bueno de Mesquita Uses Games To See the Future
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Obama Administration Withholds FoIA Requests More Often Than Bush's
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Obama Adminstration Withholds FoIA Requests More Often Than Bush's
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Week 2, Day 9 of SCO v. Novell Trial - Jury Hears About Kimball's Rulings and Botosan - Updated
We have all the important rulings in a new, special section on Groklaw's Novell Timeline page, so you can follow along. But for speed, here's the 2004 ruling and the 2007 ruling that his report references and that the jury heard excerpts from or a summary about today.
Update: Hey, look at this, a new searchable database, CourtWeb where you can search full text of court rulings for free. Not every order is in there, but eventually I hope they will be. I see Google seems to be in this project. I want to say thank you. Be sure to choose to expand to 100 documents, if you are searching for SCO Group. This is exciting.
New Proposed Jury Instructions and Novell Tries Again on Prior Ct. Rulings
Week 2, Day 8 of SCO v. Novell Trial - McBride's Admission and Pisano, Botosan - Updated
Today saw the finishing up of Darl McBride's testimony and the judge issued rulings on the various motions filed by the parties. But the big news is that Darl McBride has now admitted on the stand that SCO didn't need copyrights to run their Unix business. They need them only to run SCOsource. That is a huge admission, one which undercuts one of SCO's experts, and particularly undercuts SCO's interpretation of the APA and Amendment 2. Why? Because in 1995 and 1996, when those two documents were negotiated and executed, there was no such SCOsource program nor any thought of ever having one. He may be called back to the stand.
We also learn from an exhibit that HP decided not to take a SCOsource license in part because purchasing a license would be the equivalent of supporting terrorism. And then the SCO experts began to testify, beginning with Dr. Gary Pisano. Also, note that the final report from yesterday's session is now posted there.
SCO's Motion to Allow Testimony
Aussie Gamers Dress As Zombies To Raise R18+ Awareness
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Novell Anticipates Objections to SCO's Experts' Testimonies - The TK-7 Case
Novell has found this 10th Circuit case, TK-7, that indicates that Dr. Gary Pisano ought not to be allowed to use the Yankee Group study's numbers as the basis for his opinions, since he didn't look into the methodology. And yes, on the basis of this new case, Novell respectfully says that Judge Ted Stewart's denial of Novell's earlier Daubert motion was in error:The Yankee Group survey is hearsay, and SCO should not be permitted to dress it up and introduce it as Dr. Pisano's unexamined and untestable opinion. They have, in short, painted the judge into a corner, and he will either have to follow case law, or he'll have to find a newer case that contradicts the one Novell has found. Judges are supposed to be bound by case law, with a bit of wiggle room. The judge denied the motion without the benefit of this case, which Novell says, "requires a different result." This case is dynamite. Whoever found it fell asleep grinning.
The Death of the US-Mexico Virtual Fence
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Thai Protesters Pour Their Own Blood at PM's House
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Week 2, Day 7 of SCO v. Novell Trial - More McBride and Botosan Opens a Door - Updated
And there will be more Darl tomorrow. Also Novell has filed its opposition to SCO introducing IBM materials, as they asked to yesterday.
sxsw ‘10 comes to an end…
I’m still in Austin, drinking a beer at the SXSW Blogger Lounge, as the Interactive bit of the show comes to a close. I’ll be driving home to Alpine tomorrow.
To mark the occasion we created nine prints, “The SXSW 2010 Series”. We were showing them at the trade show booth and yeah, they were selling like hot cakes.
For 2010 we designed another “Austin is The Killer App” print- you see it here on the left, or click here to see it enlarged etc.
Anyway, if you had a great time at SXSW ‘10 (like I did) this print series will make for great little souvenirs. Rock on.
Novell files Offer of Proof Re Prior Inconsistent Declaration of Sabbath
I gather Novell has noticed what you have, that the judge's ruling was not fair to Novell.So they are making a record, listing very thoroughly why the deposition is allowable under the rules, how they would have used it to rebut SCO's witnesses, and precisely how the materials are contradictory. This may be related to the discussion we heard about yesterday, where it was discussed if Ms. Madsen would have to return. It surely will be part of any appeal, should it prove necessary. But the judge can simply change his ruling, solving the issue.
Week 2, Day 6 of SCO v. Novell Trial - The Mistrial Motion, Kim Madsen, Steve Sabbath, Darl McBride - Updated
Judge Denies 2 Novell Motions: for Mistrial and to Allow Evidence
SCO Responds to Novell's Motion to Allow Evidence
And to this day Novell, on their web site, continues to republish that slander. You gotta watch the Boies Boyz, my friends, with a very close eye. They could talk a bird out of a tree before he realizes there is no worm.
Obama Backs MPAA, RIAA, and ACTA
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