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11 November 2012

Amazon Wipes Customer's Account, Locks All Ebooks, Says 'Find A New Retailer' When She Asks Why

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Techdirt has been warning people for several years that they don't really own the ebooks they have on their Amazon Kindles. The most...
21 June 2010

Copyright Ratchet, Copyright Racket

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I can't believe this. A few days ago I wrote about the extraordinary extra monopolies the German newspaper industry wanted - including ...
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23 October 2009

The Utter Moral Bankruptcy of the DNA Database

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This is staggering: Detections using the national DNA database have fallen over the past two years despite the number of profiles increasin...
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31 March 2008

More Wisdom on Intellectual Monopolies

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Good to see that I don't have a, er, monopoly on outraged posts about intellectual monopolies: This is why the idea of Intellectual Pro...
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10 October 2006

Google Shoots an Elephant

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So Google has done the deed, and bought YouTube. I can't help thinking of a story by George Orwell, called Shooting an Elephant . In i...
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21 July 2006

The Office of Intellectual Monopolies

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The group behind the Adelphi Charter has apparently proposed that the UK Patent Office be replaced with an Office of Intellectual Property...
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