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Pinterest Interest: Boon or Boondoggle?

Lorraine Devon Wilke | Posted 05.23.2012

Read More: Photography, Website, Social Media, Usage Rights, Pinterest, CDbaby.Com, Copyrights, Name Credits, Itunes, Media News
Lorraine Devon Wilke

I'm late to this game. Didn't even know it was being played. At least not till I noticed "pinning" going on at Facebook or Twitter and had no idea what this Pinterest thing was or why any of us should be paying attention.

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Law Firm Files 32 Suits Over Denver Post Photo

AP | P. SOLOMON BANDA | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Righthaven LLC, Copyrights, David Duke, TSA Pat-Down Photo, Denver Post, Denver News

DENVER — A law firm that targets the unauthorized use of news content on the Internet has filed 32 lawsuits in federal court in Colorado seeking...

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eBooks: Who Owns Your Digital Downloads?

Fortune Tech | Scott Woolley | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Nook Ereader, Nook, Copyright, Kindle, Ereader, Copyright Office, Copyrights, Ebook, Amazon Kindle, Kindle Amazon, eBook Rights, Ebooks, Books News

The holiday season is upon us, and with it thoughts of peace on earth, goodwill... and the latest electronic media. Visions of Kindles and Kinects da...

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The Academy and Fashion -- An Unlikely Pair Teaches Us About Innovation

Krisztina Holly | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Open Source, Copyrights, Innovation, Usc, Linux, And OpenCourseWare, Tedx, The Human Genome Project, Intellectual Property, Academic, Ted, Fashion, Academia, Ip, Johanna Blakley, World Wide Web, Ideas, Patents, Tedxusc, Los Angeles News
Krisztina Holly

In the rush to protect our ideas we often overlook the fact that the value of some ideas are most fully realized when they are shared, not kept secret.

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Save the Whales! Abolish Patents!

David K. Levine | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Generics, Monopoly, Health Care Reform, Copyrights, Innovation, Intellectual Property, Health Care, Pharmaceuticals, Patents, Business News
David K. Levine

The case for drastically reducing and eventually abolishing medical patents is clear: they raise the social cost of drugs, and medicine, while providing little or even a negative incentive for medical innovation.

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