2. October, 2002 - smileys want to be free
- I'm still at the conference, but have found a little time between sessions to get some blogging done. There have been a lot of interesting talks in the halls and sessions here, and some of those talks have even fit in with the links I was planning to use today.
- Microsoft claims to have found The First Smiley, but according to Smileys and Emoticons on PLATO in the 1970s, it was on PLATO in 1972. Guess some fact-checking might be in order. [some guy]
- General Magic to cease operations. It was a pretty cool device originally, but I haven't seen any updates for so long that I thought they'd already ceased operations. [some guy]
- CD Settlement Sweet Music to Utah Libraries, Charities -- while not admitting any wrongdoing, music companies coughed up over $67 million to settle the price-fixing suit. [some guy]
- Unchained melodies discusses what happens when you (or specifically Janis Ian) make music available for free. [some guy]
- We Can Run, but We Can't Hide: How BayTSP is Enforcing the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. [some guy]
- On a related note, The media titans still don't get it, and think the internet is like some fancy television. [some guy]
- Opposing Copyright Extension, Protecting The Public Domain. Infinite Copyright actually makes works unavailable. As Tim O'Reilly pointed out in the keynote at Mac OS X Con, obscurity is a lot worse problem for most publishers than piracy. [some guy]
- FCC to Announce Hollywood's Controversial Broadcast Flag - it's a big deal, and the EFF is fighting it. You can use the Electronic Frontier Foundation Action Center to generate letters to your Congress Critters. [some guy]
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Last updated on Wed, 02 Oct 2002 16:45:00.