Comments on: p2pnet World Headlines – Oct 7, 2009 http://www.p2pnet.net/story/29579 p2pnet.net - reader powered Wed, 01 Feb 2012 15:11:09 -0300 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 By: Check this! http://www.p2pnet.net/story/29579/comment-page-1#comment-986135 Check this! Thu, 08 Oct 2009 05:03:13 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/?p=29579#comment-986135 http://wikileaks.org/wiki/EU_social_network_spy_system_brief%2C_INDECT_Work_Package_4%2C_2009 This file, marked "confidential", describes development of an EU-funded intelligence gathering system ("INDECT work package 4") designed to comb webblogs, chat sites, newsreports, and social-networking sites to inorder to build up automatic dossiers on individuals, organizations and their relationships. "The aim of work package 4 (WP4) is the development of key technologies that facilitate the building of an intelligence gathering system by combining and extending the current-state-ofthe- art methods in Natural Language Processing (NLP). One of the goals of WP4 is to propose NLP and machine learning methods that learn relationships between people and organizations through websites and social networks. Key requirements for the development of such methods are: (1) the identification of entities, their relationships and the events in which they participate, and (2) the labelling of the entities, relationships and events in a corpus that will be used as a means both for developing the methods." http://wikileaks.org/wiki/EU_social_network_spy_system_brief%2C_INDECT_Work_Package_4%2C_2009

This file, marked “confidential”, describes development of an EU-funded intelligence gathering system (”INDECT work package 4″) designed to comb webblogs, chat sites, newsreports, and social-networking sites to inorder to build up automatic dossiers on individuals, organizations and their relationships.

“The aim of work package 4 (WP4) is the development of key technologies that facilitate the building of an intelligence gathering system by combining and extending the current-state-ofthe- art methods in Natural Language Processing (NLP). One of the goals of WP4 is to propose NLP and machine learning methods that learn relationships between people and organizations through websites and social networks. Key requirements for the development of such methods are: (1) the identification of entities, their relationships and the events in which they participate, and (2) the labelling of the entities, relationships and events in a corpus that will be used as a means both for developing the methods.”

]]> By: Few headlines http://www.p2pnet.net/story/29579/comment-page-1#comment-986128 Few headlines Thu, 08 Oct 2009 03:46:12 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/?p=29579#comment-986128 Dutch Collection Society Looks To Charge Bloggers For Embedding YouTube Videos http://techdirt.com/articles/20091007/0153146440.shtml Over the past year, we've noticed an explosion in ridiculous attempts by music collection societies (often totally clueless about technology) to extend their ability to collect for positively ridiculous things (while also looking to significantly increase their collection rates). The latest, sent in by Dennis Laumen, is that the Dutch collection society, Buma/Stemra, is claiming that it's going to start charging bloggers 130 euros for every 6 videos they embed. This is somewhat similar to ASCAP's recent technologically clueless claim that embedding YouTube videos should count as a public performance (along with its other recent claims that iTunes 30-second previews and your mobile phone ringtones should also be counted as public performances). (I hope Jon and Billy don't get nailed!) Guns N' Roses Sued For Copying Songs (Part 1) http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/industry/e3i03c5991d65201a6020836c74cee6879c Sued for "sampling ambient noise" is what I heard on the radio today Guns N' Roses 'Vigorously Contests' Lawsuit (Part 2) http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/industry/e3i77c099eee89951efce60f0269fb2eaed According to the lawsuit filed Friday (Oct. 2), which is seeking $1 million in damages, Axl Rose and Guns N' Roses band members and album producers copied portions of two of Schnauss' songs -- "Wherever You Are" and "A Strangely Isolated Place" - for the track "Riad N' the Bedouins." Software is owned not licensed - US legal precedent http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1557653/software-owned-licensed THE BYZANTINE SOFTWARE licensing system in the US was dealt a blow by a federal court that denied Autodesk's bid to prevent the second-hand sale of its software. According to Out Law, the company tried for years to convince a court that its software is merely licensed and not sold and that a customer therefore had no rights to sell it on. The target of Autodesk's wrath was Timothy Vernor, who was selling legitimate copies of Autodesk software on Ebay. Vernor's defence was that since he paid for the software he had the right to sell it on, and now the US District Court for the Western District of Washington has agreed with him. ... Vernor's defence was that since he paid for the software he had the right to sell it on, and now the US District Court for the Western District of Washington has agreed with him. Expect an appeal. This is one worth following. Massive dinosaur footprints found in France http://www.thestar.com/sciencetech/article/706779--massive-dinosaur-footprints-found-in-france Paleontologists in eastern France have reported the discovery of some of the largest dinosaur footprints ever documented, measuring about 1.4 metres to 1.5 metres (4.6 feet to 4.9 feet) in diameter. (if you photograph it and upload it, you lose your internet access) Dutch Collection Society Looks To Charge Bloggers For Embedding YouTube Videos
http://techdirt.com/articles/20091007/0153146440.shtml
Over the past year, we’ve noticed an explosion in ridiculous attempts by music collection societies (often totally clueless about technology) to extend their ability to collect for positively ridiculous things (while also looking to significantly increase their collection rates). The latest, sent in by Dennis Laumen, is that the Dutch collection society, Buma/Stemra, is claiming that it’s going to start charging bloggers 130 euros for every 6 videos they embed.
This is somewhat similar to ASCAP’s recent technologically clueless claim that embedding YouTube videos should count as a public performance (along with its other recent claims that iTunes 30-second previews and your mobile phone ringtones should also be counted as public performances).
(I hope Jon and Billy don’t get nailed!)

Guns N’ Roses Sued For Copying Songs (Part 1)
http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/industry/e3i03c5991d65201a6020836c74cee6879c
Sued for “sampling ambient noise” is what I heard on the radio today

Guns N’ Roses ‘Vigorously Contests’ Lawsuit (Part 2)
http://www.billboard.biz/bbbiz/content_display/industry/e3i77c099eee89951efce60f0269fb2eaed
According to the lawsuit filed Friday (Oct. 2), which is seeking $1 million in damages, Axl Rose and Guns N’ Roses band members and album producers copied portions of two of Schnauss’ songs — “Wherever You Are” and “A Strangely Isolated Place” – for the track “Riad N’ the Bedouins.”

Software is owned not licensed – US legal precedent
http://www.theinquirer.net/inquirer/news/1557653/software-owned-licensed
THE BYZANTINE SOFTWARE licensing system in the US was dealt a blow by a federal court that denied Autodesk’s bid to prevent the second-hand sale of its software.
According to Out Law, the company tried for years to convince a court that its software is merely licensed and not sold and that a customer therefore had no rights to sell it on.
The target of Autodesk’s wrath was Timothy Vernor, who was selling legitimate copies of Autodesk software on Ebay.
Vernor’s defence was that since he paid for the software he had the right to sell it on, and now the US District Court for the Western District of Washington has agreed with him.
…
Vernor’s defence was that since he paid for the software he had the right to sell it on, and now the US District Court for the Western District of Washington has agreed with him.

Expect an appeal. This is one worth following.

Massive dinosaur footprints found in France
http://www.thestar.com/sciencetech/article/706779–massive-dinosaur-footprints-found-in-france
Paleontologists in eastern France have reported the discovery of some of the largest dinosaur footprints ever documented, measuring about 1.4 metres to 1.5 metres (4.6 feet to 4.9 feet) in diameter. (if you photograph it and upload it, you lose your internet access)

]]> By: EE http://www.p2pnet.net/story/29579/comment-page-1#comment-986100 EE Wed, 07 Oct 2009 21:59:11 +0000 http://www.p2pnet.net/?p=29579#comment-986100 "Eolas sues internet aristocracy over embedded application patents" I wish they would go after something open sourced. If they go after companies that make their money off of web patents, they'll probably settle. However, if they go after people interested in furthering the art of the web (i.e. open source), the courts could revisit the validity of software patents and this whole mess could go away. I don't believe this is what the supreme court had in mind when it ruled that patents could be issued in very limited circumstances. “Eolas sues internet aristocracy over embedded application patents”

I wish they would go after something open sourced. If they go after companies that make their money off of web patents, they’ll probably settle.

However, if they go after people interested in furthering the art of the web (i.e. open source), the courts could revisit the validity of software patents and this whole mess could go away.

I don’t believe this is what the supreme court had in mind when it ruled that patents could be issued in very limited circumstances.

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