I really think we are starting to strangle on copyrights and patents in America. The nonsense of it all is becoming enormous, you cannot publish important historical works, inventors cannot bring products to the market without battalions of lawyers around them and a whole industry is arising just to sue people who actually make things. [...]
You can do your part to protect the great systems of eternal copyrights that has made our country the leading light of freedom that it is by turning in people who sing “Happy Birthday” in public. No wait! This isn’t actually as stupid as it sounds, check out the Unhappy Birthday site.
August 28th: Today in 1963 at the March for Jobs and Freedom Dr. Martin Luther King delivers his famous I Have A Dream speech, one of the most stirring and memorable speechs of the 20th century. It had better be memorable, because the estate of the late Doctor has locked it down with copyright restrictions [...]
Fed Ex has real momentum at the moment. They seem to really have eaten into the UPS ground of non-overnight shipping and they seem to be doing it with style. Good for them, UPS has been on top for a long time and competition is good for them. Still Fed Ex can be just as [...]
I am not a Dave Matthews fan, but many people are and I am sure the band is quite talented and deserves to be paid for the music it sells. I am also sure the producer and engineers and all the rest deserve their cut. Likewise I don’t deny the record company their share, but [...]