I just came across an article while researching for an upcoming radio interview that I *really* hoped was AI slop;

https://www.flavorwire.com/407971/does-spotify-prove-that-lars-ulrich-was-right-all-along

Maybe it is, but the person taking credit for it appears to be a real music writer;

https://www.tomhawking.com/

It's been a while since I read a more wrongheaded, asanine, and completely backwards piece of nonsense attributed to a flesh and blood human instead of generated by a stochastic parrot.

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#music #CopyWars #Napster #LarsUlrich

@rayckeith IANAL but ...

I think the usual excuse is that failing to enforce an intangible monopoly (copyright, patent, trademark, etc) can be cited as precedent to weaken future claims. But surely they could issue an irrevocable license for a narrow set of cases like pico-mac-nano, granting necessary copyright and patent usage permissions. It would probably even be cheaper than suing them all.

They could, but they don't. They're just being dicks.

#PicoMacNano #RetroComputing #IP #CopyWars

#TIL that CBS Studios used a DMCA takedown to get an Android app called Tricorder removed from app stores. They could claim with some justification that "tricorder' is a trademark (disclaimer; IANAL), but the name was not the problem. Apparently they were claiming to own a copyright on Michael Okuda's visual design for the Tricorder UI.

https://web.archive.org/web/20121027024019/http://code.google.com/p/moonblink/wiki/Tricorder

#StarTrek #Tricorder #CBS #DMCA #CopyWars