Comments for TacticalIP.com http://tacticalip.com Tactically Relevant. Patently Entertaining. Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:01:35 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 Comment on Mark R. Malek by Duty of Disclosure During Patent Prosecution and Supplementing the Disclosure | TacticalIP.com http://tacticalip.com/authors/mark-r-malek/#comment-7371 Duty of Disclosure During Patent Prosecution and Supplementing the Disclosure | TacticalIP.com Fri, 03 Feb 2012 19:01:35 +0000 http://tacticalip.com/?page_id=1291#comment-7371 [...] Mark R. Malek [...] [...] Mark R. Malek [...]

]]> Comment on Terms of Service and Your Copyrights by Patrick http://tacticalip.com/2012/01/26/terms-of-service-and-your-copyrights/#comment-7369 Patrick Fri, 27 Jan 2012 00:12:07 +0000 http://tacticalip.com/?p=7001#comment-7369 Scott, Imagine this (entirely conceivable) scenario: Google modifies its terms and conditions to claim assignment or very broad license rights for any content "submitted" to its services, and considers its webcrawler to be one of those services. Since Google has told us for years that all website operators can easily "block" the crawler from reading your site, what if they decided that failing to do so was the equivalent of submitting your content to their search index, thereby conferring the license/copyrights obtained via the terms of service .... I probably shouldn't be giving them ideas... Scott,

Imagine this (entirely conceivable) scenario:
Google modifies its terms and conditions to claim assignment or very broad license rights for any content “submitted” to its services, and considers its webcrawler to be one of those services. Since Google has told us for years that all website operators can easily “block” the crawler from reading your site, what if they decided that failing to do so was the equivalent of submitting your content to their search index, thereby conferring the license/copyrights obtained via the terms of service ….

I probably shouldn’t be giving them ideas…

]]> Comment on Terms of Service and Your Copyrights by Scott Nyman http://tacticalip.com/2012/01/26/terms-of-service-and-your-copyrights/#comment-7367 Scott Nyman Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:57:09 +0000 http://tacticalip.com/?p=7001#comment-7367 Goldenrail, You make a very good point, and I agree with what you're saying. Facebook does seem to reserve a broader right to use a user's content as they see fit, unlike Google, which limits the purposes for which the content may be used. Facebook is definitely no angel here. The grab on the rights I was referring to was more focused on Google's assertion of a right to use content for basically forever, as opposed to Facebook's mechanism for revoking the license. That, and Google's uses allow for a pretty broad interpretation (for example, selling ads generates revenue to pay programmers to develop services)... Thanks for the excellent comment! Goldenrail,

You make a very good point, and I agree with what you’re saying. Facebook does seem to reserve a broader right to use a user’s content as they see fit, unlike Google, which limits the purposes for which the content may be used. Facebook is definitely no angel here. The grab on the rights I was referring to was more focused on Google’s assertion of a right to use content for basically forever, as opposed to Facebook’s mechanism for revoking the license. That, and Google’s uses allow for a pretty broad interpretation (for example, selling ads generates revenue to pay programmers to develop services)…

Thanks for the excellent comment!

]]> Comment on I HAVE AN IDEA FOR A SMART PHONE APP! NOW WHAT? by Rene Dial http://tacticalip.com/2011/05/27/i-have-an-idea-for-a-smart-phone-app-now-what/#comment-7366 Rene Dial Thu, 26 Jan 2012 17:47:55 +0000 http://tacticalip.com/?p=4186#comment-7366 I would be happy to discuss your app with you. Please contact me at rene@legalteamusa.com or philip@legalteamusa.com. I would be happy to discuss your app with you. Please contact me at rene@legalteamusa.com or philip@legalteamusa.com.

]]> Comment on I HAVE AN IDEA FOR A SMART PHONE APP! NOW WHAT? by chris crook http://tacticalip.com/2011/05/27/i-have-an-idea-for-a-smart-phone-app-now-what/#comment-7365 chris crook Thu, 26 Jan 2012 16:36:18 +0000 http://tacticalip.com/?p=4186#comment-7365 i have an idea for smart phones its a small chip that u can insert into your pet and if they go missing u can track them on your smart phone. i have an idea for smart phones its a small chip that u can insert into your pet and if they go missing u can track them on your smart phone.

]]> Comment on Terms of Service and Your Copyrights by Goldenrail http://tacticalip.com/2012/01/26/terms-of-service-and-your-copyrights/#comment-7364 Goldenrail Thu, 26 Jan 2012 15:03:20 +0000 http://tacticalip.com/?p=7001#comment-7364 I disagree with your conclusion that Facebook's grab is less than Google's. While Google's license may last longer, Facebook's is much broader. Google's ilcenes is limited to the "purpose of operating, promoting, and improving our Services, and to develop new ones." Facebook's license has no such limit and indeed we have already seen experiences where people's copyrighted content has been used by Facebook for other purposes - i.e. letting companies use people's copyrighted photos they have uploaded to Facebook in these companies' advertisements. Under Facebook's TOS, Facebook can do anything with any content you've posted on Facebook or somehow connected to your account, including selling it to third-parties. It would be hard to argue the same is allowed under Google's TOS. I disagree with your conclusion that Facebook’s grab is less than Google’s. While Google’s license may last longer, Facebook’s is much broader. Google’s ilcenes is limited to the “purpose of operating, promoting, and improving our Services, and to develop new ones.”

Facebook’s license has no such limit and indeed we have already seen experiences where people’s copyrighted content has been used by Facebook for other purposes – i.e. letting companies use people’s copyrighted photos they have uploaded to Facebook in these companies’ advertisements. Under Facebook’s TOS, Facebook can do anything with any content you’ve posted on Facebook or somehow connected to your account, including selling it to third-parties. It would be hard to argue the same is allowed under Google’s TOS.

]]> Comment on Mark R. Malek by The Duty of Disclosure When Filing A Patent Application | TacticalIP.com http://tacticalip.com/authors/mark-r-malek/#comment-7360 The Duty of Disclosure When Filing A Patent Application | TacticalIP.com Sat, 21 Jan 2012 03:24:38 +0000 http://tacticalip.com/?page_id=1291#comment-7360 [...] Mark R. Malek [...] [...] Mark R. Malek [...]

]]> Comment on The Pirate Bay University – Now hosting thousands of scientific papers by Scott Nyman http://tacticalip.com/2011/07/21/the-pirate-bay-university-now-hosting-thousands-of-scientific-papers/#comment-7358 Scott Nyman Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:44:09 +0000 http://tacticalip.com/?p=4871#comment-7358 Thank you for the compliment and additional details about the articles. I absolutely appreciate the in depth comment. I agree with you sentiment about the principals of public domain, wherein works such as these should be provided publicly to further our culture and the arts. Thanks again and keep reading! Thank you for the compliment and additional details about the articles. I absolutely appreciate the in depth comment. I agree with you sentiment about the principals of public domain, wherein works such as these should be provided publicly to further our culture and the arts.

Thanks again and keep reading!

]]> Comment on The Pirate Bay University – Now hosting thousands of scientific papers by SOPA and PIPA vs The Internet: The Epic Copyright Battle | TacticalIP.com http://tacticalip.com/2011/07/21/the-pirate-bay-university-now-hosting-thousands-of-scientific-papers/#comment-7357 SOPA and PIPA vs The Internet: The Epic Copyright Battle | TacticalIP.com Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:32:02 +0000 http://tacticalip.com/?p=4871#comment-7357 [...] nobody can touch The Pirate Bay, as evidenced by their response letters (or, as Scott called them, f/u letters). The language of the bills is entirely too broad, however, and reeks slightly of “did not do [...] [...] nobody can touch The Pirate Bay, as evidenced by their response letters (or, as Scott called them, f/u letters). The language of the bills is entirely too broad, however, and reeks slightly of “did not do [...]

]]> Comment on SOPA and PIPA vs The Internet: The Epic Copyright Battle by Religie verwerpelijk en gevaarlijk | Broeders in Christus http://tacticalip.com/2012/01/18/sopa-and-pipa-vs-the-internet-the-epic-copyright-battle/#comment-7355 Religie verwerpelijk en gevaarlijk | Broeders in Christus Thu, 19 Jan 2012 11:28:34 +0000 http://tacticalip.com/?p=6946#comment-7355 [...] SOPA and PIPA vs The Internet: The Epic Copyright Battle (tacticalip.com) [...] [...] SOPA and PIPA vs The Internet: The Epic Copyright Battle (tacticalip.com) [...]

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