What is the future of copyright and trademark law when cost and cultural borders prevent efforts against infringement? @ianlyons @wendyinfutures

What is the future of copyright and trademark law when cost and cultural borders prevent efforts against infringement?

We are facing challenges that the average company cannot afford to address. It is not only about Chinese attitudes and behavioural practices. Some people just choose to take what they want - knowing that most companies do not have resources to legally contest. Even in USA, CH, NL. 

Will copyright and trademarks follow in the footsteps of the democratisation of publishing? It's a trail of tears and cheers - depending on which side of the path you stand.

As Ian Lyons said, "It's time to figure out new strategies...". 

Referencing previous post and responding to comment from @ianlyons :

Chinese company tells us they will steal our name anyway

Got the following email this morning from a Chinese company announcing that they will "persist" to steal our  registered brand. 

What do you think?

Begin forwarded message:

From: YangGareth <gareth.yang@hotmail.com>
Date: 21 October 2010 01:08:52 EDT
To: Quantum Brands
Subject: quantumbrands

Dear Sirs,
We are Hanshin company based in Chinese office. We will register the "quantumbrands" as internet keyword and CN internet domain names. We have handed in our application and are waiting for Mr. David Luo's approval. We think this name is important for our products in Chinese market. Even though Mr. 

David Luo advise us to change another name, we will persist in this name.
Best regards

Gareth Yang

Posted 4 days ago by Colby Stuart

Comments (1)

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  Ian Lyons said...

  I think you've encountered the future reality of doing business in a world that will be increasingly dependent on and dominated by China. It sucks - but them's the breaks. Time to figure out new strategies ...

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Crimson Hexagon - social tech reveals essence of underlying themes in public opinion - not just negative blah blah

Crimson Hexagon - now used by CNN and Bing - is a social technology for measuring the essence of millions of unsolicited online conversations in dynamic human engagement. Market research just took a giant step forward in measuring the nature of public opinion.

crimsonhexagon.com

@crimsonhexagon

http://www.fastcompany.com/1697243/harvard-developed-analytics-tool-measures-public-opinion-on-social-media-in-real-time

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The speed of love in the human brain - 1/5 of a second

The findings raise the question: "Does the heart fall in love, or the brain?"

"That's a tricky question always," says Ortigue. "I would say the brain, but the heart is also related because the complex concept of love is formed by both bottom-up and top-down processes from the brain to the heart and vice versa. For instance, activation in some parts of the brain can generate stimulations to the heart, butterflies in the stomach. Some symptoms we sometimes feel as a manifestation of the heart may sometimes be coming from the brain."

Fascinating, so read on...

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101022184957.htm?

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Which ones best describe you in this historical listing of new classes as they have appeared over time?

Thanks, Yve, for Richard Barbrook's "The Class of the New"
http://www.theclassofthenew.net/6.html

Which ones best describe you?

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Go, New Mexico! Runway opens at first spaceport

Commercial space travel takes a step closer with the opening of the runway at the world's first spaceport in the US state of New Mexico.

Go to BBC to read the original article.

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Untitled

on last pages of first draft book - argh...art direction is so much easier than writing original copy in simple language

via Ping.fm

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Computer Scientists Developed New Way of Tracing Origins & Spread of Ideas

New Search Method Tracks Down Influential Ideas: Computer Scientists Have Developed a New Way of Tracing the Origins and Spread of Ideas

ScienceDaily (Oct. 20, 2010)

 — Princeton computer scientists have developed a new way of tracing the origins and spread of ideas, a technique that could make it easier to gauge the influence of notable scholarly papers, buzz-generating news stories and other information sources.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/10/101020152034.htm?

Download News Hour for iPhone from itunes

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Chinese company tells us they will steal our name anyway

Got the following email this morning from a Chinese company announcing that they will "persist" to steal our  registered brand. 

What do you think?

Begin forwarded message:

From: YangGareth <gareth.yang@hotmail.com>
Date: 21 October 2010 01:08:52 EDT
To: Quantum Brands
Subject: quantumbrands

Dear Sirs,
We are Hanshin company based in Chinese office. We will register the "quantumbrands" as internet keyword and CN internet domain names. We have handed in our application and are waiting for Mr. David Luo's approval. We think this name is important for our products in Chinese market. Even though Mr. David Luo advise us to change another name, we will persist in this name.
Best regards

Gareth Yang

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The man who coined "fractal" : Benoît Mandelbrot, Novel Mathematician, Dies at 85

From The New York Times:

Benoît Mandelbrot, Novel Mathematician, Dies at 85

Dr. Mandelbrot, a maverick mathematician, developed an innovative theory to study uneven shapes and applied it to physics, biology and many other fields.

http://nyti.ms/aZH3wQ

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Facebook makes copycats of us all

A study of Facebook app shows that social influence "switches on", driving mass downloading, only beyond a threshold popularity.

Go to BBC to read the original article.

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Graphic Content - Milton Glaser, Still Questioning

"An exhibition of Milton Glaser's recent work reveals that at 81, the renowned graphic designer hasn't stopped paying attention to the big issues." From The New York Times: http://nyti.ms/9Db2ue

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'One app for all' effort launches

"An effort to make apps that can run on any web-ready gadget, from phones to TVs, has been given a cash kickstart by the EU.

A European project to develop an application environment for every internet-connected device has received 10m euros in funding.

The project aims to sidestep operating systems and proprietary app stores by providing a web-based approach."

Go to BBC to read the original article.

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Watch out for EverCookie - the cookie that is almost impossible to delete

It's hiding in too many places in your computer and it rebuilds itself. http://i.downloadsquad.com/2010/09/21/evercookie-the-one-cookie-that-you-just...

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ComScore introduces social media monitoring tool

"The new Social Analytix service uses Radian6 technology to track mentions of brands, companies and products across 150 million web pages including Facebook, Twitter, MySpace, LinkedIn Answers and blogs and forums."

Read complete article here:

http://www.research-live.com/news/analytics/comscore-debuts-social-media-monitoring-tool/4003630.article

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A new era of 'super Wi-Fi'

From CNN: "Freeing up vacant airways" could lead to extraordinary innovation and expansion. If the USA governmental agency FCC does this, the commercial exploitation could create an economic and cultural shift.

http://www.cnn.com/2010/TECH/innovation/09/14/fcc.super.wifi/index.html?

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Collaboration Aims to Create First Accurate Geometric Map of the Internet

ScienceDaily (Sep. 12, 2010) — 

" Researchers - at the University of California, San Diego, in collaboration with researchers from Universitat de Barcelona in Spain and the University of Cyprus - have created the first geometric "atlas" of the Internet as part of a project to prevent our most ubiquitous form of communication from collapsing within the next decade or so.

They describe how they discovered a latent hyperbolic, or negatively curved, space hidden beneath the Internet's topology, leading them to devise a method to create an Internet map using hyperbolic geometry. 

In their paper, the researchers say such a map would lead to a more robust Internet routing architecture because it simplifies path-finding throughout the network. "

Read more...

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100910093200.htm?

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"The Grand Design" everything except god with capital "G"

Comprehensive book review that enlightens us deep into the content and how it's delivered. http://m.guardian.co.uk/?id=102202&story=http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/sep/12/the-grand-design-stephen-hawking

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Gods of science: Stephen Hawking and Brian Cox discuss mind over matter

http://m.guardian.co.uk/?id=102202&story=http://www.guardian.co.uk/science/2010/sep/11/science-stephen-hawking-brian-cox

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Biometrics research - even twins have unique irises

A biometric is a stable and distinctive physiological feature of a person that can be measured and used to identify that person; the fingerprint is the most familiar example.

Now researchers have discovered irises differentiate each of us uniquely. Read article to discover more....

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/09/100908160345.htm?

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Signs

Signs and direction indicators from traveling around this world

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Building architecture for archiving & findability

Lab notes from the real time experience http://visitmix.com/LabNotes/The-Archivist-Architecture

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Holistic Ranch Management

Dynamic cattle grazing methods bring back grasses, save money and resources http://mobile.time.com/bu_ne/473261

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Location Determines Social Network Influence

Location Determines Social Network Influence - Number of Connections Less Important Than Proximity to Core

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2010/08/100829202004.htm?

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Here's where you can follow Space Shuttle Atlantis' last mission online

Because I am such a fan and this final adventure for Atlantis closes 25 years of historical space exploration, I have taken the liberty of copying Tim Conneally's complete article posting from betanews.com with all pertinent links below. Follow the Atlantis over the next 11 days. 

http://www.betanews.com/article/Heres-where-you-can-follow-Space-Shuttle-Atlantis-last-mission-online/1273851175? 

"Here's where you can follow Space Shuttle Atlantis' last mission online

By Tim Conneally | Published May 14, 2010, 11:32 AM

NASA Space Shuttle Atlantis is scheduled end its 25-year career with one final trip into space today. The shuttle will be manned by six astronauts and is expected to be in flight for twelve days. The STS-132 mission is to deliver equipment to the International Space Station which includes a Russian Mini-Research Module, a set of batteries for the station's truss and dish antenna, and other replacement parts.

However, the launch takes place today at 2:20pm EST, a time when most of the United States is at work.

Fortunately, the National Aeronautics and Space Administration is making it very easy to follow the action online. NASA isbroadcasting the event live on its website, and is running a launch blog which provides frequent updates on the status of the launch.

Additionally, some excellent information can be found on both NASA and the Kennedy Space Center's Twitter feeds at @NASA, @NASAKennedy(the above picture was a TwitPic from Kennedy.)

Other useful twitter profiles to follow today are@NASA_Astronauts, and @nasatweetup."

Again, the above article was written and published by Tim Conneally for www.betanews.com

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Four Nerds & a Cry Against Facebook

From The New York Times:

"Four N.Y.U. students have decided people should be able to communicate online without surrendering their privacy to a big business."

"Diaspora* group was inspired after hearing a talk by Eben Moglen, a law professor at Columbia University, who described centralized social networks as 'spying for free'."

Read their story and how they raised money to set up Diaspora. Great OpenSource initiative.  http://nyti.ms/d01noz

Their Twitter = joindiaspora

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Preparing your website development for the near future now - Choosing for hosting, servers, cloud computing & integration

For Kids2020Foundation.com, we have been getting informed by the experts about how to make choices for hosting and servers. Cost, security, scaleability and processes. The words of wisdom have been "cloud computing" -using services like Amazon's or Google's. 

Ran across this article from ZDNet, which explains the key integration issues and benefits.

"Cloud-based integration platforms allow you to design, build, monitor, and manage integrations centrally (from the cloud) - yet deploy just the runtime to where the integration needs to occur – either in the cloud or on premise."

Separating the runtime, while unifying the administrative and management functions, eliminates unneeded complexity and dramatically increases the quality of:

1. Collaboration
2. Component Re-use
3. Data visibility and control
4. Policy standardization and enforcement
5. Configuration management
6. Monitoring
7. Auditing/validation
8. Reporting

They deliver the same benefits as SaaS applications themselves including:

1. Significantly reduced cost structure
2. No integration products to install and maintain
3. Automatic upgrades – no “rev lock” issues
4. Usage based pricing – can start small and expand over time
5. Global connectivity and access

Added benefit - positioned for the future - With a cloud integration platform, applications and data sources outside your firewalls can easily be added to your portfolio using the same distributed runtime, centralized management framework."

Read more here: http://bit.ly/axKfuj

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What happens when there are no more IP addresses to give out?

"The speed with which the remaining pool of net addresses are being used up seems to be accelerating."

Go to BBC to read the original article.

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Panel of experts discuss implications of Facebook as parallel social universe

The Allure of the Hive: Social Networking and Social Change

Roundtable

Participants: Nicole Ellison, David Kirkpatrick, Dhiraj Murthy, Sean Parker, Andrew Rasiej (other panelists TBA)

Video

"Facebook is more than a "social network." It is a parallel universe of relationships and social life, which for many of its 500 million users has become a field of action nearly as significant as their real-world interactions. The average American user spends more than six hours per month on Facebook, and increasingly uses it as a primary tool for communication. Facebook and other Internet social media occupy a larger and larger portion of the time people spend online, becoming massively potent forces of change whose impact we are only beginning to comprehend. 

How does the new world of digital "friendship" affect our social life in the real world? How are we ourselves changing as we increasingly inhabit yet another virtual universe? What does the growing penetration of Facebook and social media portend for the way life will be lived, and how will it affect how we organize ourselves, from family life to politics? 

One of the primary architects of Facebook joins experts on individual empowerment and Internet media to elucidate the impact of this looming presence in modern life."

http://philoctetes.org/Calendar/The_Allure_of_the_Hive_Social_Networking_and_Social_Change/

Also read the supporting blog from Huffington Post explaining more: http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jim-luce/allure-of-the-hive-expert_b_569444.html 

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FEAR.LESS MAGAZINE HAS LAUNCHED. – fear.less - stories of overcoming fear

fear.less first online magazine dedicated to stories of overcoming fear.

"Are you ready for your fears to 

tremble in their boots? Are you ready to learn from the inspiring stories of those who have come before you? Are you ready to pay absolutely nothing for it?"

In light of a world framed by news that continually provokes our fears, this new approach for sharing and crowdsourcing our fears is refreshing.  

http://fearlessstories.com/uncategorized/fear-less-magazine-has-launched/

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Dan Yoder's blog on "10 Reasons to Delete your Facebook Account" targets issues

What do you think about your user contract with Facebook?

The comments to Dan Yoder's blogpost are as interesting as this post. They spotlight the value-based issues with social media and reflect people's desires to roam free of restrictions or exploitation. Gives us greater insight into perspectives coming from the fringe in the wider digital arena.

You can read more on his actual blog http://rocket.ly

Business Insider posted a copy of Dan's blog - and has the list of comments referred to above.
http://www.businessinsider.com/10-reasons-to-delete-your-facebook-account-2010-5

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Growing digital literacy through the Digital Media and Learning Lab

"Digital Media and Learning Research Hub is located at the systemwide University of California Humanities Research Institute and hosted at the UC Irvine campus. We think digital media practices are fundamentally reshaping society in far-reaching ways, especially in how people all around the world are learning and connecting with one another."

Check out the bibliography for papers on digital literacy.  

http://dmlcentral.net/

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It’s Complicated: Making Sense of Complexity

From The New York Times:

"Complexity used to be so simple. It meant progress. We liked it. Now the most intractable issues of our age, from war to finance, are tangled in ways that inspire headaches, not awe."

http://s.nyt.com/u/XvG_

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