Word: copyright
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...booked revenue of nearly $2 million for the 2,500 chairs it sold to McDonald's, and has requests for more chairs from several European outlets. These orders, the company says, will not be filled. That means fast food fans on the Continent - with its stricter design rights and copyright laws - won't be eating their Big Macs sitting on a Jacobsen, real or reproduction. But, a spokeswoman for McDonald's Europe is quick to point out, "this impacts just one of a catalogue of re-image options." Instead, "we will look at using alternative chairs by other designers...
...limit academic freedom” because existing software cannot distinguish between legal and illegal downloading, and would place pressure on universities. “It would require them to allocate resources at the bidding of the entertainment industry, to report on work done to enforce others’ copyrights, to implement impossible technologies, and to be named-and-shamed if they ended up on the ‘25 worst’ list,” Seltzer wrote in an e-mail. The legislation calls for the U.S. Secretary of Education to identify the 25 colleges and universities with...
...unable to afford, on a stipend from her tribe, the costly legal counsel of technology experts who might have buttressed her assertion that she was innocent of the RIAA’s accusations. Of course the association’s lawyers have every right to prosecute on copyright law, but their insistence on heavy-handed punishment of Ms. Thomas verges on the absurd; it seems entirely disproportionate to the purported crime. But even as the darkness of court cases looms in the minds of college students across the country, day may be breaking overseas, as the British band called Radiohead...
...impressive, engaging companion catalogue don’t provide any easy answers. And with good reason: there aren’t any.Instead, the exhibition presents the evidence for both sides of the debate clearly and cogently.Making sense of a complex tangle of mathematical fractals and the chemical structure and copyright of pigments and paints, the essays in the catalogue lay out the discussions in something approaching layman’s terms, outlining the research and analysis behind the intrigue.DRAMATIS PERSONAEThe exhibition is separated into two sections. In the upper portion of the show, anecdotes, letters, and images all contribute...
Here, at least, the copyright law follows our intuitions. Access to ideas is a high priority in a democratic society. The Constitutional authorization to “promote the progress of science,” leaves facts in the public domain, as do the statutes and cases interpreting them. Authors are given copyright incentives to induce them to share their works and the ideas in them with the public. We would expect an academic bookstore to appreciate that it too gains from authors’ free access to the facts and ideas in the world around them...