Google kupil dobrih tisoč patentov od IBM-a

PaX_MaN je 3. avg 2011 ob 17:58 izjavil:

It makes us all poorer and helps keep us stuck in the great stagnation.

Ne pa ne. Število letno podeljenih patentov očitno raste, kar pomeni, da industrija očitno raste, kar pomeni, da razvoj očitno ne stagnira, kar pomeni, da patenti očitno NE zavirajo razvoja.

The British government today pledged (PDF) to enact significant changes to copyright law, including orphan works reforms and the introduction of new copyright exceptions. And the tone of the comments was surprising: the government agrees that "copyright currently over-regulates to the detriment of the UK." CD (and perhaps DVD) ripping for personal use should become legal at last—and the government is even keen to see that the consumer rights granted by law can't simply be taken away by contract (such as a "EULA" sticker on a CD demanding that a disk not be ripped).

Probably the most important announcement is the expansion of copyright exceptions. Unlike the US, the UK does not have a broad, judge-made "fair use" doctrine that allows transformative uses of copyrighted works. Today's report doesn't use the phrase "fair use," but it endorses legalizing many of the same ideas. The government proposes to create "a limited private copying exception," to "widen the exception for non-commercial research," to "widen the exception for library archiving," and "to introduce an exception for parody."

Patents receive only a brief mention in the report. The government pledges to "resist extensions of patents into sectors which are currently excluded unless there is clear evidence of a benefit to innovation and growth." It also promises to investigate the problems created by patent thickets, although it doesn't endorse any specific proposal for addressing the problem.

For decades, policymakers around the world have steadily expanded the breadth of copyright and patent protections and ratcheted up enforcement. So the fact that the UK's official copyright agenda now consists mostly of creating new copyright exceptions and abandoning previously announced enforcement efforts suggests the pendulum may finally be swinging in the other direction.

Icematxyz je 4. avg 2011 ob 14:45 izjavil:

antitrust investigations concerning these patent cartels

... did any of you seriously expect Google had the clout in US Congress to change the patent system?

Icematxyz je 4. avg 2011 ob 18:50 izjavil:

4.) Google ne ustvarja profita z Android?

1.) RedTube ne predstavlja nelojalne konkurence plačljivim pornografskim stranem, FireFox in VLC bi se zlahka znašla v podobni situaciji, kot je sedaj Android.

Apple ne počne tega in tudi podjetje Google je dokazalo, da je to manj pomemben podatek za (finančni) uspeh na tržišču?