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May 22, 2012
16:00
Wallace & Gromit teach Oz kids to respect patents
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Museum exhibit “contains strong and accurate IP messages”
Wallace & Gromit have taken on their toughest challenge yet: teaching Australian kids to respect intellectual property rights raising a generation of patent trolls.…
10:26
Orange pulls out of women's Fiction
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No longer the only kind of fruit
The Orange Prize for Fiction, awarded annually to the best English-language novel from a female human author, will henceforth be known as the "Prize for Fiction" as Orange is taking its money elsewhere.…
2:04
News leech's fresh cash deal with rags 'reasonable' – tribunal
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Formerly 'uneconomic' costs suddenly affordable for article scraper
The fees that businesses will have to pay news aggregators of newspapers' online content for their services have been set after a Copyright Tribunal determined the terms were "reasonable".…
May 21, 2012
21:29
3D TV fails to excite, gesture UIs to flop: analyst
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Apple, Sony, to pounce as connectivity craze catches
3D television is not exciting global TV buyers, says analyst firm NPD.…
18:52
Australia rocks to Spotify
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Would you like ads with that track?
Swedish digital music streamer Spotify is ready for downloading in the Australian market.…
8:32
IP law probe MPs hunt for smoking gun, find plenty of smoke
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The IPO whodunnit continues
Analysis There’s an elephant in the room as Parliament’s informal inquiry into intellectual property policy rolls on. In the foreground, there’s the role of the officials who are supposed to support it. In the background, there’s something more troubling.…
7:42
What's copying your music really worth to you?
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Quite a lot, it seems
How much would your iPhone be worth to you if the only music it could play had been bought on the device itself, from Apple? If your answer is "a lot less" or "not very much", then you're not alone. New empirical research has attempted to measure how much we value the ability to copy our music across formats and devices – and it's a significant sum.…
May 20, 2012
21:23
Alain de Botton wants better online smut
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Site will liberate net from "stupidity, brutishness, earnestness and exploitation"
Clearly not satisfied with being the thinking woman’s sex symbol, philosopher Alain De Botton is taking on sex in a new digital venture that will attempt to position pornography – mostly the online iteration- as a therapeutic tool rather than a grubby thrill. De Botton issued a press release from his philosopher think tank The School of Life extolling the virtues of porn if executed in the right fashion. "No longer would sexuality have to be lumped together with stupidity, brutishness, earnestness and exploitation. It could instead be harnessed to what is noblest in us."…
May 19, 2012
6:00
Dish Networks locks horns with broadcasters over ad skipping
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Auto Hop has content industry hopping mad
In the latest episode of the US ad-skipping saga, Dish Networks is facing the wrath of broadcasters such as NBC and Fox, but winning praise from customers and no doubt causing a little churn among competitors. That at least is the intention of the Dish PVR ad skipping feature called Auto Hop, with the company gambling that the gain in subscription revenue will make the pain of having to defend a possibly protracted case against it from broadcasters worthwhile.…
May 18, 2012
12:18
Facebook jumps then slumps in first few minutes day's trade
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Round and round she goes, where she stops....
Facebook's shares debuted on the Nasdaq today at $42 and immediately skidded downwards to the original IPO price of $38.…