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  • On the post: Universal Music Prevents Popular Play From Showing In Stockholm, Despite Not Having The Legal Rights

    drkkgt ( profile ), 14 Oct, 2009 @ 03:37pm

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    and yet they backed down immediately
    from the article: "The play has toured across Europe and has never had any problems before. But suddenly Paul Simon has heard about the lay, and does not want his music being used, Universal claim.
    I then wrote a letter to Paul Simon and asked if this really was his opinion, and receive a swift response from his representative Eddie Simon that something must be array here. Universal do not represent Paul Simon in contractual agreements with theatres, he explained. Universal then retracted their demand and said that there were no longer any objections" Also, if you read the article, this wasn't a one shot "we are going to sue unless you quit" so the theater quit. The theater tried to work with them and Universal ignored them

    Check out the linked articles off the original above as well.

  • On the post: The Difference Between Reporting And Discussion

    drkkgt ( profile ), 14 Sep, 2009 @ 11:39pm

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    "well, i'd say newspaper, but apparently they don't do a huge amount of fact checking lately either."

    Then again, a "newspaper" would only write a retraction if they got caught, and then on some back page in small type, where as Mike and crew usually do it right on the article or in a follow up on the main page/feed.

  • On the post: Reason To Buy? The $1 Million Wine Book

    drkkgt ( profile ), 26 Aug, 2009 @ 12:13pm

    Re: Okay some comments

    I wonder if the wines are going to be partially donated by the winery due to the publicity or if the wine makers are going to demand multiple payments from the writers, photographers, printers, producers, binders, typesetters, word processing developers, computer hardware manufacturers, and paper mills that were used in producing the book on behalf of all the hard working grape pickers.

  • On the post: Publishers Succeeding With Free eBooks Driving Sales For Other Books

    drkkgt ( profile ), 11 Aug, 2009 @ 07:49pm

    Re: Free books at Baen

    Love Baen and yeah, they give away the first one or two books in a series to get people hooked.

  • On the post: Spinvox Tries To Patent Dictation?

    drkkgt ( profile ), 31 Jul, 2009 @ 02:43pm

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    oh wait, they repeat the same thing in the new one listed in Mike's article.

    Oh and thanks for the link to the register Petréa, good article.

  • On the post: Spinvox Tries To Patent Dictation?

    drkkgt ( profile ), 31 Jul, 2009 @ 02:41pm

    Wow, the patent they just got in May for the Method of managing voicemails from a mobile telephone has a great line it it.

    This presents several challenges to the user: first, he may not have a pen and paper to hand to take down any important information; secondly, he may forget or not be able to hear the options and hence will be unable to operate the voicemail system effectively.
    Because of this inadequate and opaque interface, voicemail is not used by at least 45% of mobile telephone users. Of those that do use voicemail, it typically accounts for 30% of a user's call time and spend. One of the reasons for this perhaps surprisingly high level is that, because of the difficult interface, users frequently dial in again just to listen to key voice messages they did not get the details of the first time round.

  • On the post: Is Apple Suggesting That The DMCA Prevents Terrorism?

    drkkgt ( profile ), 30 Jul, 2009 @ 08:55am

    well......

    the "we must have the ability to do A, B, C in place" or "we must remove rights D, E, and F from citizens because of the terrorists" has worked so well for the government, I am actually surprised more businesses aren't doing this.