“We are an agricultural company,” begins Monsanto’s marketing spiel. And wouldn’t you trust the company who invented aspartame and bovine growth hormone to invent food for you? How about if that company also helped develop Agent Orange? The fact is that you’ve probably eaten food genetically enhanced by Monsanto in the past day alone, and [...]
The Financial Times is saying that Microsoft is ready to pay Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp. to remove its news content from Google (no one tell Fox about robots.txt, please). The fact that this is a user-hostile strategy — users don’t keep track of which companies may be listed in which search engine — is right [...]
Seiko Epson Corp. on Tuesday, Feb. 21, filed lawsuits in a US District Court against 24 firms who manufacture after-market ink cartridges for Epson printers, citing Patent Infringement Seiko Epson’s complaint, filed with the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC), calls for a general exclusion order banning the import or sale of less expensive third party [...]
AMC Theatres has announced that it will not exhibit ThinkFilm’s “The Aristocrats,” an unrated documentary that features a series of comedians performing their renditions of the same classic dirty joke. Spokeswoman Pam Blase said that AMC Film Group Chairman Dick Walsh decided, with other executives, not to show the film. It’s worth mentioning that AMC [...]
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA), along with its Candian brother (the CRIA), has been lobbying for stronger copyright legislation, claiming that it has experienced significant financial losses due to illegal music downloading on peer-to-peer (P2P) services. Writing for First Monday, Michael Geist details the elaborate myths the RIAA and CRIA have constructed, distilled [...]