Sunday marks new era in cellphone carrier market power

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New cellphones purchased after this Saturday Jan. 25, 2013 can be unlocked only with the permission of the carrier; phones purchased before Sunday are exempt from this restriction and have been since 2006. Back in October, the U.S. Copyright Office filed a new decision on unlocked phones in the Federal Register. The Copyright Office is… Read More…

Internet Radio Fairness? What it means, why it matters

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Pandora listeners may have recently heard a call to support a bill called “The Internet Radio Fairness Act” in place of regularly scheduled advertising. Tim Westergren, the Pandora founder, also sent a message to Pandora members on Friday asking them to urge their Congressional representatives to support the bill. So what’s going on here?  The… Read More…

Microsoft tops Google’s list of copyright removal requests

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Microsoft is more active than any other company in asking Google to remove from its index websites that infringe on the Redmond company’s copyrights, according to a new Google report. New stats from the search giant show that Microsoft and its agents requested the removal of more than 536,000 URLs from Google’s Index in the… Read More…

Estately’s copyright notice knocks one of Canada’s largest real estate firms offline

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Earlier this week, we told you the story about Estately sending a cease-and-desist letter to one of Canada’s largest real estate companies, alleging that Sutton West Coast essentially ripped off code, images and design elements in creating its new Web site. The story attracted a lot of attention, in part because Sutton West Coast’s site… Read More…