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EFF has posted a list of ‘endangered gizmos’, but really they’re endangered products. Technology will move on, but back-room shenanigans will keep anyone from making money from it. A new 'feature' in Adobe Photoshop prevents you using images of a number of world currencies for any purpose whatsoever, legal or no. This is an ominous portent for the future of copyright control. There's an opportunity cost to keeping your intellectual property locked up, something that Time-Life illustrates with the handling of their photographic archive. John Conyers and Howard Berman want to impose penalties on unauthorized distribution of copyrighted material that would result in more money in fines for one day's activity than the recording industry has made throughout its history. The rock-star lifestyle may be a casualty of the coming collapse of music distribution as we know it, and that's almost certainly a good thing. The media conglomerate's troubles are the result of them not knowing what they've got. |