Teresa Neilsen Hayden, Rowling’s being sued for plagiarism again [via Boing Boing]
Brad Burnham, Software patents are the problem not the answer [via Stephen Johnson]
Timothy B. Lee: “We use programming languages to express mathematical concepts in much the same way that authors use the English language to express other types of ideas. Unfortunately, the recent proliferation of patents on software has made the development and use of software legally hazardous.”
Thanks to this article for informing me about the upcoming Bilski v. Doll case, which the Supreme Court is due to hear in the coming term. It will potentitally lead to a definitive ruling on the legality of software patents and business-method patents. [via Felix]
“The photos by official White House photographer Pete Souza are now available to the public on the White House Flickr stream under a new arrangement: in place of the Creative Commons Attribution license used previously, the photos are now identified as ‘United States Government Works….’” [via]
Many, including me, noted that using a CC-BY license was a problem. Glad to see it has been cleared up.
Give Me Something To Read is now accepting article submissions from the public.
Think you’re a better editor than me? Show me what I’ve been missing. Did you recently read a great article that you’d highly recommend for the GMSTR audience? Submit it for consideration.
Nice, but from the terms of submission, it seems like I can only submit articles that I have written:
You represent and warrant that you own all rights to any content submitted.
James Surowiecki, on the reasearch of Michael Heller in The Permission Problem
