Tag Archives: intellectual property rights

Google and Wikipedia Blackout Protest Over U.S. Internet Legislation

#SOPA #PIPA If you go to Wikipedia.org today, you get a black page asking you to protest. If you to Google today, you will find their logo blacked-out and a plea to protest. WordPress.org, The Membrane.com and KingArthur.com have also *blacked-out* in support of the protest. What has Internet intellectuals all in an up-roar? Millions [...]
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Court Bans Sale of Microsoft Word

A federal appeals court has ordered Microsoft to stop selling Word. In addition, Microsoft is to pay the Canadian company i4i Inc. $290 million for patent infringement. Michel Vulpe i4i said it is “an important step in protecting the property rights of small inventors.”
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Facebook Does About Face On Privacy

After an angry crowd of Facebook users protested the changes to Facebook’s privacy policy, the founder of Facebook, Mark Zuckerberg, posted clarification and a new policy. In the prior wording, it appeared Facebook was saying they owned all the users’ content for forever. Now, they make it clear that a user owns their own content. [...]
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