04 Apr 2008
Lawsuit Claim: Students' Lecture Notes Infringe on Professor's Copyright

No absurd claim amazes me anymore in the Copyright Wars.

University of Florida professor Michael Moulton and his e-textbook publisher are suing a company that repackages and sells student notes, arguing that copyright law protects the lectures he gives to his students.

(link) [Wired: Top Stories]

21:53 /Copywrongs | 0 comments | permanent link

Police say man in wheelchair robbed bank

and he got away ...

AP - Palo Alto police are looking for a bank robber who favors a decidedly slow-speed getaway vehicle — an electric wheelchair. Police said a man in his 60s with gray hair and a beard held up the Wachovia Bank branch at the Stanford Shopping Center late this afternoon with a black handgun.

(link) [Yahoo! News: Top Stories]

21:49 /Humor | 0 comments | permanent link