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Movie: Patent Absurdity: how software patents broke the system

A new documentary is out, Patent Absurdity: how software patents broke the system:

Patent Absurdity explores the case of software patents and the history of judicial activism that led to their rise, and the harm being done to software developers and the wider economy. The film is based on a series of interviews conducted during the Supreme Court's review of in re Bilski a case that could have profound implications for the patenting of software. The Court's decision is due soon...
With interviews from Eben Moglen, Dan Bricklin, Karen Sandler, Richard Stallman and others...

I discuss Bilski in Supreme Skepticism Toward Method Patents and The Arbitrariness of Patent Law, and Moglen and Stallman in Leftist Attacks on the Google Book Settlement and Eben Moglen and Leftist Opposition to Intellectual Property. The film is worth watching.

Consistency FAIL!

[Posted at 04/19/2010 08:08 PM by Stephan Kinsella on IP Hypocrites comments(7)]

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NBC--Comcast combo will screw the public I note that Nobody Nowhere was rude in his comments to Anonymous; why he isn't banned is a

at 09/06/2010 06:29 PM by Bill Stepp

Microsoft gets patent for Windows shutdown If only Microsoft would work on patenting technology that would make Windows shut down in, say, 5

at 09/06/2010 04:33 PM by patent litigation

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at 09/05/2010 10:54 AM by Zachary Frederickson

NBC--Comcast combo will screw the public Comcast is such a huge company. They can buy anything that they want. I know that they are trying

at 09/05/2010 10:27 AM by james lee

Music without copyright Metallica has been making so much money over years and they still do. This band has been around for

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