creativity

Petition Surfaces to Restore Copyright Term to 28 Years in US

One of the many flaws of copyright is that the term is, as far as most people who are living when that work is created are concerned, it's effectively indefinite. One petition that...

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Tuesday, July 10th, 2012 Net News No Comments

Guide: How to Turn Bing into Your Own P2P Search Engine

We've all seen many ways to use Google to search for specific files using specific Boolean searches. While using Google may be one of the oldest tricks in the book forrelated activity, Google...

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Sunday, June 3rd, 2012 Net News No Comments

Rickroll Meme Destroyed By Copyright Takedown

Anyone who has spent much time online, especially on Internet message boards of any kind, will be aware of Rickrolling. It’s an incredibly simple concept. The meme is based on a bait and...

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Wednesday, May 23rd, 2012 Net News No Comments

Pirate Bay Boosts “Sharing is Caring” Into The Music Charts

With help from the music industry’s biggest arch-rival The Pirate Bay, UK rapper Dan Bull is on course to get his first official ‘hit’ listed in various international single charts. With a song...

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Friday, April 27th, 2012 Net News No Comments

New government report on IP doesn’t say what Big Content thinks it says

Yesterday we got an e-mail from the Motion Picture Association of America trumpeting a new Commerce Department report on the importance of "intellectual property"—patents, copyrights, and trademarks—to the United States economy. "IP-intensive industries,...

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Thursday, April 12th, 2012 Net News No Comments