Category Archives: Copyright

Futurist Prediction Update – Copyright – Update 1

I’ve written about Copyright since 2008. My original articles were explanatory, for friends and relatives. That changed when Doctor Mihály Ficsor borrowed Barry Sookman’s blog. That post, which consisted of so many inaccuracies that I couldn’t count them, got me … Continue reading

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Futurist Prediction – The CPU Registry – And You Thought the Long Gun Registry Was Bad…

If you think the Long-Gun Registry was a debacle, think again. Wait till you see the CPU Registry.

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Copyright Wars Volume 4 is now Published

Copyright Wars Volume 4 has now been published. It was rather fun reading the old posts, and looking at the things that have changed, and have not changed since I originally wrote the articles. Regards Wayne Borean Saturday December 3, … Continue reading

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Email to Costas Menegakis, Member of Parliament, Richmond Hill

Dear Costas, Thanks for replying to my email. You seem to have missed the points I was trying to make, so I’m going to lay them out carefully. This will be a long email.

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Corporate Copyright Scofflaws 0011a – Hephaestus Books – Follow Up

On October 31, 2011, I wrote about the Hephaestus Books scam, following a blog post by award-winning writer C. J. Cherryh. Since CJ spotted the problem, a variety of things have happened.

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Ellen Seidler – And Then Came Lola (2009)

Piracy as it is inaccurately known (the correct term is copyright infringement) is a polarizing term. Mention of it often causes otherwise sensible discussions to degenerate into innuendo and name calling.

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Corporate Copyright Scofflaws 0011 – Hephaestus Books

The largest copyright pirates are the large corporations, particularly in the content distribution business. Yes, those companies who scream the loudest that their customers are ‘pirating’ movies, songs, books, etc. In this series, we are going to look at cases … Continue reading

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Copyright Wars Volumes 1 & 2

Greetings and salutations! On September 1, 2011 I had the great pleasure of publishing the first two volumes of my Copyright Wars series. They are up on both Amazon and Smashwords, and should be available on the Kobo, IBook, Diesel, … Continue reading

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Mono and Copyright

When I originally started writing this article, Miguel de Icaza was in a difficult situation. The situation has now been addressed. On his blog yesterday Miguel announced that there is now a Novell/Xamarin Partnership around Mono.

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The Major Labels Think That They Own The Independent Artists – Do They?

Love him or hate him, Michael Robertson tends to get a fair bit of press where music is concerned. He is the founder and former CEO of digital music pioneer MP3.com. He is currently the CEO of music locker company … Continue reading

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