December 19, 2002
SJ Mercury: Copyright verdict, new technology are reasons to hope.
Dan Gillmor. So, a nod of appreciation goes to Creative Commons. Ditto to the dutiful ElcomSoft jury. In a year when the news on copyright was so consistently sour, let's be thankful for the gifts we've received this week.
News.Com: Patent creates IM wrinkle.
The breadth of this definition could create controversy in the industry. AOL's primary competitors, Microsoft and Yahoo, have their own instant messaging services, each with millions of subscribers. With the patent, AOL could technically sue rival instant messaging services for infringement...
NY Times: Online Sales Offer Fresh Look at Economy.
Hal R. Varian. Though online sales are not yet important economically, they are important to economists because they offer a rich source of economic data. It is much easier to collect online prices than offline prices, and with a little bit of ingenuity, you can even harvest data about costs and sales volume, information that is awfully hard to come by in the real world.
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