Unleashing the Content Harvesters

The UK Government wants to introduce a law to allow anyone to use your photographs commercially, or in ways you might not like, without asking you first.

I've been thinking a while about the case of Google Books massive scanning project. It reminds me of the Harvester machines from Terminator Salvation. Google was hell-bent on acquiring books and it eventually became a battle between publishers and the Google Harvester. Publishers at least had the funds to hire attorneys and the ramifications of [...]

Twitter Wants to Trademark Tweet. Really? Really?

Image via CrunchBase Titter announced they want to own the word "tweet" (via The Knockoff Report). From Twitter's blog post announcing this craziness (see May the Tweets Be With You): We have applied to trademark Tweet because it is clearly attached to Twitter from a brand perspective but we have no intention of "going after" [...]