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Copyright Infringement & Patent Infringement
A studio just filed a lawsuit against a blog website claiming copyright infringement of a picture of Jennifer Aniston. Although there is not much detail about the case yet, I thought it brought up some relevant issues about copyright infringement and the internet.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/SHOWBIZ/Movies/02/22/aniston.ap/index.html
In another case, Microsoft was just ordered to pay $1.5 billion for patent infringement related to digital music technology. Although we haven't covered patents in detail yet, the case raises many pertinent issues about music downloading and use on computers as we discussed in class this week.
http://money.cnn.com/2007/02/22/technology/microsoft_alcatel/index.htm?cnn=yes
Posted by at February 22, 2007 8:36 PM
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