05 Oct, 2009
Posted by: Bob Jansen In: Business| Intellectual Property| Internet
This blogpost was originally posted on our firmhouse blog.
Triggered by the title? Well, basically that’s what is happening here in the Netherlands on the web. All bloggers (amateur and professional) that embed video or music need to pay a fee based upon the amount of viewers. The fee is depending upon the amount of visitors. [...]
15 Dec, 2008
Posted by: Bob Jansen In: Business| Intellectual Property| Internet
One of the best innovations on the web in last few years is the Creative Commons licensing model. It allows designers, graphical artists, copywriters and other kinds of people working with copyrighted material to share and reproduce work more easily.
However Creative Commons is aimed to create freedom that creative people want to give to their [...]
12 Dec, 2008
Posted by: Bob Jansen In: Intellectual Property
A few days ago I read about Friendster being awarded it’s fourth patent in Social Networking. In 2006 they already received a patent that refers to a “system, method, and apparatus for connecting users in an online computer system based on their relationships within social networks.”. Now they received a patent that refers to “compatibility [...]
01 Sep, 2008
Posted by: Bob Jansen In: Intellectual Property| Internet
One of the subjects I postponed to write about was Intellectual Property (IP). But I ran across this news that Microsoft is granted the patent for the page up and page down function buttons on your keyboard. The patent is granted August the 19th, this year. This triggered me to write about it today.
So what [...]
