blog, blog, blog
The Walt Disney Company has a complicated history with copyright. Disney has long taken inspiration for its movies from the public domain. Fairy tales, fables, Shakespeare, you name it, Disney has borrowed it. Disney has continued the age old practice of building on the work of others. There is no shame in this, it’s the …
Continue reading “ESPN and Cord-cutting or Disney’s Dark Fairy Tale”
Thirty years ago the United States Supreme Court decided that personal recordings were fair use and that selling a device (the VCR) that has substantial non-infringing uses is lawful even if it could be used to infringe. In chapter four of The Road Ahead, Bill Gates pondered the digital future and the evolution of computers. …
Continue reading “Reading The Road Ahead 19 Years Later – Chapter 4: Applications and Appliances”