End of a hero
Read with appropriate irony (I didn’t think end of an ‘era’ was as useful here).
Captain Copyright is dead! So say the good people at Slaw.ca.
Captain Copyright was a fairly cack-handed attempt at bringing the important lessons of copyright (like don’t copy, even when a statute specifically provides for it) into the classroom, through the [...]
End of an era (2)
Less epochal than Apple v Apple, but still interesting. The Washington Post has published an email newsletter/reminder on tech issues for some years (12, in fact; I’ve only subscribed for a little over half of that). It started as a tie-in with a monthly insert, and has changed over the years. Now, [...]
End of an era (1)
The long-running dispute between Apple, Inc (formerly Apple Computer, Inc) and Apple Corps (check out the naff placeholder page!) has come to an unexpected end. Apple (the computer-and-lots-of-other-stuff people) will own the Apple trademark, and license it ‘back’ to Apple (the Beatles/music/etc people) for its use. This replaces the 1991 agreement (the result [...]