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AP and copyright infringement

Wed, 18 Jun 2008 11:16:54 +0000

ctcoberon wrote an interesting post today on
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It appears that Associated Press sent several copyright take down notice to The Drudge Retort to take down several posting and user comments that is alleged to have infringed its copyright since they cut-and-paste sections of AP reports. NYTime’s coverage is the most balanced view of the topic. Those take down notices created an anger over the net. It appears that AP has now back down in the sense that it will not take things further but still claim infringement. The NYTime’s blogpost clearly show that AP has a PR disaster at hand and is trying to contain it.
The details of the postings are listed at Cadenhead. IANAL, but my view is that it is inappropriate to take the number of words copied to decide whether is there any infringement. In this case, although the actual word count that was copied was low, one must take into account that the […]

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CRAIG EISELE on BBC “World Have Your Say”

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 20:33:50 +0000

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Jaaksi’s clarification on what he think open source should learn from the handset business (Updated)

Tue, 17 Jun 2008 12:37:11 +0000

ctrambler wrote an interesting post today on
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Jaaksi from Nokia clarify what he meant when he said Open Source should learn from the mobile phone business. From his clarification, and from my perhaps “polarized” viewpoint, the journalist captured Jaaksi’s view point accurately, i.e., there is not much difference between the two accounts.
PJ’s (of Groklaw) view (on her comment about Jaaksi’s blog entry) that “The more he says, the worse it gets.” has some limited, very limited truth in it.
There is always going to be people of both sides who do not want to learn from each other. Jaaksi is not no one of them, and I do not count myself one of them. In our case, we have the traditional handset business on one side, and open source on the other. Both sides has things to learn from others. However, neither can expect the other to immediately ditch its business model. Both excels in their respective aspect: […]

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Nokia to Linux Developers: “Learn the handset business”

Thu, 12 Jun 2008 13:19:16 +0000

ctcoberon wrote an interesting post today on
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By way of Groklaw’s newspick, I came across this article at ZDNet UK titled “Nokia urges Linux developers to learn business”. Good article highlighting the divides between Open source and the current handset practice. Bad title because the article is about “open source”, not “Linux”. Most importantly, Jaaksi, Nokia’s vice president of software, who opinion is the focus of the article, clearly demonstrate his understanding of this divide.
Most importantly, he is not demanding that Open Source changed to suit current handset business practice. He is hoping to open a dialog between open source and handset industry needs. Therefore I would not go as far as PJ goes by simply saying “No” to him. I would encourage him to pursue changes in current business practice to get it more aligned with open source practices since I think it will benefit the industry, and Nokia, in the long run. Somethings, like handset […]

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Internet Commerce!

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:12:43 +0000

cregan wrote an interesting post today on
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The Internet has definitely changed the way many of us do business both in a private and commercial sense, but there are some big pitfalls.
For example, some of the products, which we now can obtain from anywhere in the world, may not be all they are claimed, and this we might not discover, until they arrive at our doorstep.
The cost of these transactions can be more then just moratory.
The products may be counterfeit or crude copies and you as the purchaser, downloader or importer, can find yourself slapped with a fine or worst (imprisonment) and the goods confiscated. So, be careful, do your research.

At the moment, the illegal downloading of music is a major concern for the Music Industry and for artists, writers, producers and their support staff, as it is limiting their ability to develop and maintain their careers in music.
This subject was covered by the SBS Insight program […]

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FREE WORKSHOP: Phishing and Identity Theft

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:10:11 +0000

ctcoberon wrote an interesting post today on
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The CTC has been approved by the Communication Security Branch, Telecommunications, Network Regulation & Australia Post Division and CTC@NSW to run two (free) workshops between 6 & 13 June on e-Security.
And like we have stated before, we will only receive our funding grant if we get the required numbers i.e. ten (10) people per workshop.
The workshops will now be conducted on 11th June (the topic being ‘Identity Theft’) and at the Rotary meeting on the 13th June ( Small Business and e_Security), and it is important that you book your place ASAP by contacting the CTC/VIC 6336-0666 or by fax 6336-2255.

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REMINDER FOR OBERON JUNIOR SCHOOL CHILDREN

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:07:17 +0000

ctcoberon wrote an interesting post today on
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The CTC, VIC and Oberon Council Printing Competition, the prize is a pre-loved Hewlett Packard 930C colour document printer and comes complete with all the necessary inks, manuals and cabling. To be in the running to win this printer all you have to do is tell us in 25 words or less why you would like to own this printer. Closing date is last mail Friday 27 June. The winner will be announce on the following Wednesday 2 July.

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ATOMIC LEARNING - PC Maintenance and Security workshops

Wed, 11 Jun 2008 13:06:42 +0000

ctcoberon wrote an interesting post today on
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Provides short, easy-to-view-and-understand, online workshops for just about every application you can dream about.
This is a subscription site, (though they have some free tutorials in each topic).
Right now, however, they are offering their PC Maintenance and Security workshops for FREE.
There are nearly 100 short (around 2 minute) videos on everything from “Uninstalling Unwanted Applications” to “Blocking & Killing Spyware & Adware”, “Using Free Anti-Virus Products”, “Configuring and securing your wireless router”, and “Creating stronger and safer passwords”.
These short lead-ins will help you understand more about what is required and what more you will need to know when it comes to e-Security (http://movies.atomiclearning.com/k12/pc_cleansecure).

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Some Happenings, New CodePlex Project and More

Mon, 09 Jun 2008 03:09:12 +0000

Mr. Craig wrote an interesting post today on
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I’ve been swamped with a few big projects lately, but I wanted to alert everyone to a couple of happenings:

I’m down at TechEd 2008 IT Pro this week in Orlando until Thursday afternoon with a few other members of the B&R Team - Jason Medero, Michael Lotter, Bob Fox & Josh Carlisle. If you’d like to get together with any of us and talk SharePoint, feel free to ping me on the blog or via email - chrisr (at) bandrsolutions (dot) com.
Monday night is the famous ‘SharePoint by day, SharePint by Night’ event… more information on it can be found here on Bob’s blog and here on AC’s. I’ll be there with the guys mentioned above.
Jay will be running the SharePoint 2003 -> 2007 Migrations Birds of a Feather session on Wednesday, June 11 at 6:30PM… it will run about an hour, and Jay will be more than happy to stay after […]

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Craig’s Diatribe on the USA and Global Economy (# 2)

Sat, 07 Jun 2008 15:56:20 +0000

costalfy wrote an interesting post today on
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