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Submission + - 12 Laws Every Blogger Needs to Know

Submitted by

Anonymous Coward

on Thursday May 03, 2007 @09:04AM

Anonymous Coward writes: "http://taxprof.typepad.com/taxprof_blog/2007/05/ 12_important_us.html

12 Laws Every Blogger Needs to Know: (1) Whether to Disclose Paid Posts; (2) Is Deep Linking Legal; (3) The Legal Use of Images and Thumbnails; (4) Laws that Protect You From Stolen Content; (5) Domain Name Trademark Issues; (6) Handling Private Data About Your Readers; (7) Who Owns User-Developed Content and Can You Delete It; (8) The Duty to Monitor Your Blog Comments, and Liability; (9) Basic Tax Law Issues in Blogging; (10) Limited Liability Laws and Incorporating; (11) Spam Laws and Which Unsolicited Emails are Legal; and (12) Are Bloggers Protected from Journalism Shield Laws"

Submission + - deliciously illegal web colors

Submitted by

nezmar

on Thursday May 03, 2007 @09:01AM

nezmar writes: "I created and put on del.icio.us a palette of web-colors corresponding to the infamous sixteen "illegal" digits comprising the AACS key."

Submission + - Poland's freedom of speech violaton

Submitted by

hubertt

on Thursday May 03, 2007 @08:51AM

hubertt writes: "Polish infamous "screening" procedure that forces every publishing author (along with bloggers and completely niche magazine editors) to submit their "screening" information is explained in plain english by one of the polish pop culture journalists here http://wo.blox.pl/2007/04/Moje-oswiadczenie-lustra cyjne.html"

No Windows (Officially) On OLPC 179

Posted by kdawson on Thursday May 03, 2007 @08:42AM from the thinking-of-the-children dept.

Kadin2048 writes "Despite reports last week in major news sources indicating that the One Laptop Per Child project was in negotiations with Microsoft to bring Windows XP to the low-cost platform, Walter Bender, president of Software and Content at OLPC, said in an interview with Ars Technica, 'We are a free and open-source shop. We have no one from OLPC working with Microsoft on developing a Windows platform for the XO.'"

Submission + - Exodus: 8% of .EU Domains Drop

Submitted by Anonymous Coward on Thursday May 03, 2007 @08:28AM

An anonymous reader writes: Hundreds of thousands of .EU domain names registered in the post-launch euphoria of April 2006 expired yesterday. As of today, just over 2.3 million .eu domain names are active. That's a massive drop of more than 8%.

http://www.dailydomainer.com/2007150-exodus-8-of-e u-domains-drop.html

Submission + - Pandora limits service to U.S. and U.K only

Submitted by

Felix P. Dau

on Thursday May 03, 2007 @08:11AM

Felix P. Dau writes: "On May, 2nd Tim Westergren, Founder of the Pandora Radio and Music Genome Project, announced in an eMail to all listeners, that due to licencing restrictions, will cease to function for international users outside the U.S.

Here's a transcript of the eMail sent:

Dear Pandora listener,
Today we have some extremely disappointing news to share with you. Due to international licensing constraints, we are deeply, deeply sorry to say that we must begin proactively preventing access to Pandora's streaming service for most countries outside of the U.S.
It is difficult to convey just how disappointing this is for us. Our vision remains to eventually make Pandora a truly global service, but for the time being, we can no longer continue as we have been. As a small company, the best chance we have of realizing our dream of Pandora all around the world is to grow as the licensing landscape allows.
We show your IP address is '84.xx.xx.xx', which indicates you are listening from Germany. If you believe you are seeing this by mistake, we offer our sincere apologies and ask that you please reply to this email.
Delivery of Pandora is based on proper licensing from the people who created the music — we have always believed in honoring the guidelines as determined by legislators and regulators, artists and songwriters, and the labels and publishers they work with. In the U.S. there is a federal statute that provides this license for all the music streamed on Pandora. Unfortunately, there is no equivalent license outside the U.S. and there is no global licensing organization to enable us to legitimately offer Pandora around the world. Other than in the U.K., we have not yet been able to make significant progress in our efforts to obtain a sufficient number of international licenses at terms that would enable us to run a viable business. The volume of listening on Pandora makes it a very expensive service to run. Streaming costs are very high, and since our inception, we have been making publishing and performance royalty payments for every song we play.
Until now, we have not been able to tell where a listener is based, relying only on zip code information provided upon registration. We are now able to recognize a listener's country of origin based on the IP address from which they are accessing the service. Consequently, on May 3rd, we will begin blocking access to Pandora to listeners from your country. We are very sad to have to do this, but there is no other alternative.
We will be posting updates on our blog regarding our ongoing effort to launch in other countries, so please stay in touch. We will keep a record of your existing stations and bookmarked artists and songs, so that when we are able to launch in your country, they will be waiting for you. We deeply share your sense of disappointment and greatly appreciate your understanding. "

Submission + - ActiveX gets its own month of bugs

Submitted by

Kurtz

on Thursday May 03, 2007 @08:09AM

Kurtz writes: "Microsoft's ActiveX technology is to have a "Month of Bugs", following in the footsteps of the likes of Windows, Mac, PHP and Myspace."

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