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...Avenue SE Washington, DC 20559-6000 Report on Orphan Works A Report of the Register of Copyrights · January 2006 w The Register of Copyrights o... ...e Register of Copyrights · January 2006 w The Register of Copyrights of the United States of America United States Copyright Office • 101 Independe... ...ght Term Extension Act of 1998, and then reaffirmed Congress's broad power under the Copyright Clause of the Constitution to determine the appropriate... ... is deprived of access to that work. We would like the Copyright Office to undertake a review of this orphan works issue, and, based on that review, d... ...rces); • film studios (e.g., Motion Picture Association of America); • software companies (e.g., Entertainment Software Association, Microsoft, S... ...dios (e.g., 20th Century Fox, Motion Picture Association of America); • software companies (e.g., Software and Information Industry Association); ... ...); Copyright Law Revision: Hearings on S. 1006 before the Subcommittee on Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights of the Committee on the Judiciary, Unit... ...”); Copyright Law Revision: Hearings on S. 597 Before the Subcommittee on Patents, Trademarks, and Copyrights of the Committee of the Judiciary, Uni... ...ning section 110(5) of the U.S. Copyright Act. 167 In that dispute, the European Union argued that the exception to copyright protection found in ...
...This Report addresses the issue of “orphan works,” a term used to describe the situation where the owner of a copyrighted work cannot be identified and located by someone who wishes to make use of the work in a manner that requires permission of t...
...We also recommend one other threshold requirement for a user to qualify for the orphan works limitations on remedies: throughout the use of the work, the user must provide attribution to the author and copyright owner of the work if such attribution is possible and as is reasonably appropriate under ...
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... The First Book of Factoids First Published on the Links and Factoids Study List http://groups.yahoo.com/group... ...written permission from: Lidija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": ... ...aware of all the goings-on, reported noting almost until the King's abdication. The European and American press, in contrast, provided extensive cov... ...0 years later). Arab geographers propagated the story of Atlantis and medieval European authors referred to it as fact. Current oceanographe... ...ilizations/Atlantis/ Automatic Switchboard (Phone Exchange) Almon B. Strowger, an undertaker in Kansas City, faced unfair competition. The wife of... ...er, an undertaker in Kansas City, faced unfair competition. The wife of a competing undertaker was an operator at the local (manual) telephone excha... ... and, together with his cousin, produced the first model in 1888. He was granted a patent in 1891. Strowger joined forces with Joseph B. Harris and... ...a MAIL command. Van Vleck and Morris also wrote an instant messaging tool into the software. An unknown hack added a "You've got mail" alert facili... ...umber Thomas Crapper redesigned the modern toilet and received a series of related patents between 1861-1904. The Kleenex tissue was not introduced...
... Created by: LIDIJA RANGELOVSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. The Talented Mr. Ripley II. The Truman Show III. The Matrix IV... ...The Matrix IV. Shattered V. Titanic VI. Being John Malkovich VII. Dreamcatcher – The Myth of Destructibility VIII. I, Robot – The Fourth Law of R... ... aspiring writer, can't even spell. These shortcomings and discrepancies are tucked under a glittering facade of nonchalance, refreshing spontaneity... ...ther, shared secrets, emotions and adventures. Yet he lies to Truman constantly and under the Director's instructions. Everything he says is part of... ...rates the hardware, the data and the instructions for the manipulation of the data (software). It is, therefore, by definition, a virtual reality. I... ... He has the same hardware as we do (notably, a brain) and, by implication, the same software as we do (an all-pervasive, omnipresent self-identity) ... ...n abortion at will. Yet, the law does recognize and strives to enforce copyrights, patents and other forms of intellectual property rights. This d... ...s and manifestations, including those related to human life directly. We even issue patents for sequences of human DNA. And people do own forests a... ...ouple of wholesome American youths (one of them a Jew) are nabbed by a ring of east Europeans who cater to the depraved needs of sadists by providin...
...ugust 13, 1813, p. 6. 37278_u00.qxd 8/28/08 11:04 AM Page ii James Boyle The Public Domain Enclosing the Commons of the Mind Yale University Pres... ... www.caravanbooks.org. Copyright © 2008 by James Boyle. All rights reserved. The author has made an online version of this work available under a Crea... ...ights reserved. The author has made an online version of this work available under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Licens... ...e. Arti Rai’s remarkable theoretical and empirical studies have helped me to understand everything from software patents to synthetic biology. Jerry R... ...eoretical and empirical studies have helped me to understand everything from software patents to synthetic biology. Jerry Reichman has supplied energy... ... and empirical studies have helped me to understand everything from software patents to synthetic biology. Jerry Reichman has supplied energy, insight... ... many of these issues. The work of Richard Stallman, the creator of the free software movement, remains an inspiration even though he pro- foundly dis... ...set you?” I asked; “you’ve seen much worse than this.” And he had. There are patents on human genes, on auctions, on algorithms. 2 The U.S. Olympic Co... ...tal Millennium Copy- right Act, to trademark “anti-dilution” rulings, to the European Database Protection Directive. 18 The old limits to intellectual...
... economic welfare all depend on a delicate balance between those ideas that are controlled and those that are free, between intellectual property and the public domain. In The Public Domain: Enclosing the Commons of the Mind (Yale University Press) James Boyle introduces readers to the idea of the public domain and describes how it is being tragically eroded by our current...
...Information Technology Tales By expanding the sharing of knowledge, time after time InfoTech upset the balance of po... ...r her perceptive editing of my copy over many decades, especially during the writing of this book. Epigraph Neither to persuade nor indoctri... ... the perpetuation and refinement of crafts. 3. From Whence Cometh Indo-European Tongues? Did a freshwater lake community flee a saltwater surge ... ... Largest Land Empire Ever Illiterate tribes of nomad herder-hunters unite under Genghis Khan and then take less than a century to create the largest... ...I would work back from there, because I like to start with a foundation I understand and know from my own personal experience. In addition, I fin... ...logy involving the development, maintenance, and use of computer systems, software, and networks for the processing and distribution of data.‖ Ac... ... mouths handle the output; our ears, the input. The operating system‘s software lets us build intricate, comprehensible words and phrases. By co... ...d him that he made it his life‘s goal—one that would prove so elusive that patents would be issued for more than a hundred typesetting machines other... ...setting machines other than his. In 1876, the holder of one of those patents, Charles Moore, came to the Baltimore shop, seeking Mergenthaler‘s...
...This book also begins with that wondrous first Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds, premises, conclusions, and surprises that make up the best and most valuable books...
...In the Bible, God‘s first gift to man isn‘t a lesson about how to make a fire or fashion a needle, a knife, or a spear. He first blesses him with language. Even before He takes Adam‘s rib to make Eve, He tells Adam to name every...
...1. Did Water Monkeys Swim before We Spoke?-From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet? We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. -- 2. The Gift ...
...This Report addresses the issue of “orphan works,” a term used to describe the situation where the owner of a copyrighted work cannot be identified and located by someone who wishes to make use of the work in a manner that requires permission of...
...re of the Internet— And How to Stop It This page intentionally left blank The Future of the Internet And How to Stop It Jonathan Zittrain Yale Uni... ... & London A Caravan book. For more information, visit www.caravanbooks.org. The cover was designed by Ivo van der Ent, based on his winning entry of ... ...the publishers. The author has made an online version of this work available under a Creative Com- mons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Lice... ...rt II After the Stall—63 4 The Generative Pattern—67 5 T ethered Appliances, Software as Service, and Perfect Enforcement—101 6 The Lessons of Wikipe... ... to program the machines themselves, but true beginners simply could load up software written and then shared or sold by their more skilled or inspire... ...r or not it is being used for a call. As these opportunities arise in places under the rule of law—where Introduction 4 some might welcome them—they ... ...ter withstanding several claims that the TiVo DVR infringed other companies’ patents because it offered its users on-screen programming guides, 5 the h... ... 2004, TiVo sued satellite TV distributor EchoStar for infringing TiVo’s own patents 6 by building DVR functionality into some of EchoStar’s dish syst... ...s in South Korea, N.Y. T, Nov. 12, 2005, at C3; News Release, No. 45/04, European Union, EU Commission Concludes Microsoft Investigation, Imposes ...
...This extraordinary book explains the engine that has catapulted the Internet from backwater to ubiquity?and reveals that it is sputtering precisely because of its runaway success. With the unwitting help of its users, the generative Internet is on a path to ...
...dija Rangelovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to vaknin@link.com.mk Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review": ... ... OF MACEDONIA C O N T E N T S I. Economics - Psychology's Neglected Branch II. The Misconception of Scarcity III. The Roller Coaster Market – ... ...t analyses fail to tackle very long term investment horizons (i.e., periods). Their underlying assumption - the opportunity cost of delayed consumpt... ...ts with other subjects casts in doubt the scientific value of the results. d. The undergeneration of testable hypotheses – Economic theories do no... ...e. Returns increase - rather than decrease - with each additional copy. An original software retains its quality even if copied numerous times. The ... ...free abundance. Demand always initially exceeds supply. Internet backbone capacity, software programmers, servers are all scarce to start with - in ... ...What rate of inflation is desirable? The answer is: it depends on whom you ask. The European Central Bank maintains an annual target of 2 percent. O... ...tive than their French or British counterparts - at least judging by the number of patents they get issued? Perhaps because oligopolies are more co... ...d to exclude others from owning or exploiting the same things. Mineral concessions, patents, copyright, trademarks - are all forms of monopoly owne...
Critical analysis of the foundations and tenets of capitalism and of the dismal science - economics.
... APEC DELEGATES DISCOVER ANOTHER SIDE OF HAWAI‘I OFFICIAL PUBLICATION of the APEC 2011 Hawai‘i Host Committee 3 APEC 2011 · HAWAII BUSINESS RESTO... ... · HAWAII BUSINESS HAWAI‘I: A PARADISE FOR INNOVATION BEST PLACE TO STUDY THE UNIVERSE ALGAE FOR FUEL WIND ENERGY UNDERWATER RESEARCH 2 APEC 2011 ·... ...FOR INNOVATION BEST PLACE TO STUDY THE UNIVERSE ALGAE FOR FUEL WIND ENERGY UNDERWATER RESEARCH 2 APEC 2011 · HAWAII BUSINESS 2 APEC 2011 · HAWAII... ...HAWAI‘I: A PARADISE FOR INNOVATION BEST PLACE FOR ASTRONOMY ALGAE FOR FUEL UNDERWATER EXPLORATION 3 APEC 2011 · HAWAII BUSINESS 3 APEC 2011 · HAW... ...ergy In the aftermath of the Fukushima nuclear-plant disaster, Japan and European nations have increasingly explored the potential of clean energy ... ... Big Island’s total electricity. Wong says mirrors and optics in Sopogy’s patented MicroCSP systems track the sun from east to west like a giant ma... ...se at an electric plant in Thailand. Sopogy has been issued or allowed patents in 14 APEC economies and has multiple manufacturing agreements wi... ...largest format lithium cells available, and powered by HNU’s proprietary software, the system ofers nearly 100-percent efciency, compact size, sca... ...g,” or surfng In 1778, English seafarer Capt. James Cook became the frst European to record a visit to the Hawaiian Islands, which the British nam...
Hawaii Business Magazine in tribute to the APEC meeting of 2011.
... -- 17 Host Committee Chairman Peter Ho -- 20 Ideal Laboratory for Clean Power -- 24 Electric Vehicles -- 28 Firm But Renewable Energy -- 30 Building the Smart Grid -- 32 Air Conditioning from Seawater -- 36 America’s Most Diverse State -- 38 Local Economy -- 40 Hawai‘i’s Ties to the APEC Economies -- 42 A History of Innovation -- 44 Astronomy, and Ocean and Earth sciences...
...chnology Tales Information Technology Tales By expanding the sharing of knowledge, time after time InfoTech upset the balance of po... ...r her perceptive editing of my copy over many decades, especially during the writing of this book. Epigraph Neither to persuade nor indoctri... ... the perpetuation and refinement of crafts. 3. From Whence Cometh Indo-European Tongues? Did a freshwater lake community flee a saltwater surge ... ... Largest Land Empire Ever Illiterate tribes of nomad herder-hunters unite under Genghis Khan and then take less than a century to create the largest... ...I would work back from there, because I like to start with a foundation I understand and know from my own personal experience. In addition, I find ... ...logy involving the development, maintenance, and use of computer systems, software, and networks for the processing and distribution of data.‖ Acc... ...ur mouths handle the output; our ears, the input. The operating system‘s software lets us build intricate, comprehensible words and phrases. By co... ...d him that he made it his life‘s goal—one that would prove so elusive that patents would be issued for more than a hundred typesetting machines other... ...pesetting machines other than his. In 1876, the holder of one of those patents, Charles Moore, came to the Baltimore shop, seeking Mergenthaler‘s...
...This book also begins with that wondrous first Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds, premises, conclusions, and surprises that make up the best and most valuable book...
...Way back in the fifteenth century a man named Johann Gutenberg invented the ?printing press. More than 400 years passed before Ottmar Mergenthaler found a way in the late 1880s to mechanize that historic invention. Then, less than a cen...
...ovska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to samvaknin@gmail.com Visit the Author Archive of Dr. Sam Vaknin in "Central Europe Review" http://w... ... 100 articles and essays (microeconomics and macroeconomics) by the same author - available! http://samvak.tripod.com/guide.html Sam ... ...y are officially employed (de jure) – but de facto unemployed or severely underemployed? How many are on “indefinite” vacations, on leave without pa... ...hs the person has been unemployed by them. Additionally, employers must undertake to employ the worker a number of months equal to the number of m... ... of intellectual property by financing the registration of international patents, brand names, copyrights, and trademarks and by organizing innovat... ...oods, remote processing of backroom operation using computers and modems, software authoring and many other sectors where Macedonia has comparative ... ...d predictor of inflation. The Rhineland Model the Poldermodel and Other European Ideas The Anglo-Saxon variety of capitalism is intended to maxi... ... of intellectual property by financing the registration of international patents, brand names, copyrights, and trademarks and by organizing innovat... ...ods, remote processing of backroom operation using computers and modems, software authoring and many other sectors where Macedonia has comparative ...
...n@gmail.com Philosophical Essays and Musings: http://philosophos.tripod.com The Silver Lining – Ethical Dilemmas in Modern Films http://samv... ... M XIII. N XIV. O XV. P-Q XVI. R XVII. S XVIII. T XIX. U-V-W XX. X-Y-Z XXI. The Author A Abortion I. The Right to Life It is a fundament... ... such behaviour cannot be condemned. Here we have the flip side of the confusion - understandable and perhaps inevitable behaviour (self defence) i... ...RAL RIGHT. That most V's would kill IP and that we would all sympathize with V and understand its behaviour does not mean that V had a RIGHT to kil... ...cost to the provider) are the commonest of contracts. We open a business. We sell a software application, we publish a book – we engage in helping ... ... what group does not behave this way? Harvard alumni, the British Commonwealth, the European Union, the Irish or the Italians in the United States, ... ...The computer metaphor is now in vogue. Computer hardware metaphors were replaced by software metaphors and, lately, by (neuronal) network metaphors.... ...feudalism survived in the mellifluous and prolix prose of the Habsburg codices and patents. Most of the denizens of these moribund swathes of Europ... ...better itself. In due time, it will dwindle and die. Acquire a wall of "defensive" patents to deny competitors access to the latest technology. "H...
Cyclopedia of issues in economics analyzed through the prism of the economies of countries in transition, emerging markets, and developing countries.
...Cyclopedia of issues in modern philosophy: The philosophy of science and religion, the cognitive sciences, cultural studies, aesthetics, art and literature, the philosophy of economics, the philosophy of psychology, and ethics....
...vska – write to: palma@unet.com.mk or to samvaknin@gmail.com Visit the TrendSiters Web Site: http://samvak.tripod.com/busiweb.html Inter... ...VSKA REPUBLIC OF MACEDONIA Additional articles about Digital Content on the Web: http://samvak.tripod.com/busiweb.html Essays dedicated to ... ...in a string of resounding failures which cast in doubt the business model underlying digital content. Everything seemed to have gone wrong: the dot.... ...le marketplace, the hardware (e-book readers) was clunky and awkward, the software unwieldy, the e-books badly written or already in the public domai... ...onsider the now defunct BookTailor. It used to sell its book customization software mainly to travel agents - but such software is likely to conquer ... ... territory of literacy and bibliomania. This innocuous model subversively undermines the concept - legal and moral - of ownership. It also expropriat... ...to the stake (a habit worth reviving, some current authors would say...). European rulers issued proclamations against "naughty printed books" (of he... ...perty industries are fighting tooth and nail to preserve their monopolies (patents, trademarks, copyright) and their cost advantages in manufacturing... ... hands on experience as an innovator or a trendsetter? A. I have many patents issued and on file in the areas of network management and user int...
...Essays dedicated to the new media, doing business on the web, digital content, its creation and distribution, e-publishing, e-books, digital reference, DRM technology, and other related issues....
...ht January 29th 2001 Canadian Copyright: 1072425 Nov 12 th 2009 Due to the ideas presented in this book, I have had to use various terms and ... ...e various terms and words that are not found in dictionaries: beginning with the title. The word: ‘Splitness’ is used to describe two complimentar... ... Preface The Basic Elements of Human Understanding are: ... ...ments together creates a larger context of awareness which result in a better understanding. For instance: what can you understand about an oran... ... sprinkle hot black specks onto food appear? In Europe when the first modern European stoves replaced open-hearth cooking. When rich, elite Europe... ...to it. It is all enclosed; cut off, by the need to protect one’s copyrights, patents, or expertise from being stolen. How can you compare anythi... ...nsane greed of selective ownership was the creation of the legality of modern patents. Now humans do not just want to selectively own the entire pla... ...ration will ever have the resources to make a competing model of their idiotic software. That way; it keeps a lock on the business of selling softwa... ...ies; from chocolate, bananas, wood, chemicals, hardware stores, video stores, software companies, and oil… to running shoes, pants, coffee houses, mo...
...The Path of Splitness is a major non fiction work of 1,868 pages: This is the latest revised version. The book analyzes and explains: 1: The origins of our Universe: where it came from and how it was created. 2: Basic ...
...Chapter 1: The Universe. Pgs 1-112 How the Universe came into being. Chapter 2: Life Pgs 113-131 Structural dynamics of the Universe and Life Chapter 3: Hominids Pgs 132-187 A: How we evolved into Humans ...