A couple months ago Industry Minister Tony Clement and Heritage Minster James Moore held a series of meetings in cities across Canada. The idea was to consult with Canadians about the coming copyright legislation. But since then Clement attended a supposed-to-be-secret meeting, the 2009 ACTA conference in Seoul, South Korea. That conference, being secret and about copyright legislation, defeats ...

The story of Tim Langdell's relentless and darkly fascinating trademark fight against any and all users of the name 'Edge' has been quietly storming under the surface for the better part of this year. In a nutshell: Langdell's Edge Games, a UK-based publisher in the earliest days of home computer games, has tirelessly struggled to maintain ownership over the word against any ...

It would seem Google failed to effectively use its flagship service before rolling out its much-ballyhooed new programming language "Go:" Another language already had that name, and a significant profile on Google's own servers. "Go!" creator Frank McCabe is up in arms over Google's "Go"; he's demanded the company change the name of its language so he ...

The indefatigable Michael Geist has posted the slides and audio of his "ACTA 101" talk. This is must-see stuff, covering pretty much everything you need to know about ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement that's being negotiated mostly in secret right about now. (I had some problems with the embedded version - you might need to click through to blip.tv to watch it.) As ...

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... gamer. i have a few games on my itouch. most are spelling games) so if you can, please consider supporting these independent designers too! thanks The Edge Case: Indies Rally To Raise Copyfight Awareness Brandon Boyer The story of Tim Langdell's relentless and darkly fascinating trademark fight against any and all users of the name 'Edge' has been quietly storming under the surface ...