CNet has a report that a federal judge has dismissed Psystar's antitrust suit against Apple. Observers had said that the counter-suit embodied the Mac clone-maker's best chance of prevailing and staying in business. We've been following Psystar and the dueling lawsuits since the beginning.pa href="http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/18/2353259amp;from=rss"img src="http://yro.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=08/11/18/2353259"/a/ppa href="http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/18/2353259amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/FHmqI7YelkZ3tVO40QOxsRw9rGA/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/FHmqI7YelkZ3tVO40QOxsRw9rGA/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotYourRightsOnline/~4/XjCa0CxjGhY" height="1" width="1"/

coondoggie writes "The Federal Trade Commission yesterday had a US District Court issue a temporary restraining order halting the sale of RemoteSpy keylogger spyware. According to the FTC's complaint, RemoteSpy spyware was sold to clients who would then secretly monitor unsuspecting consumers' computers. The defendants provided RemoteSpy clients with detailed instructions explaining how to disguise the spyware as an innocuous file, such as a photo, attached to an email."pa href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/18/2344225amp;from=rss"img src="http://yro.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=08/11/18/2344225"/a/ppa href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/18/2344225amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/iv1P-r5NScFlehKmcoDx2ZKBw6Y/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/iv1P-r5NScFlehKmcoDx2ZKBw6Y/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotYourRightsOnline/~4/lQHTCo8zGAE" height="1" width="1"/

An anonymous reader notes a posting up at a law blog with the provocative title Does Your Boss Have to Pay You While You Wait for Vista to Boot Up?. (Provocative because Vista doesn't boot more slowly than anything else, necessarily, as one commenter points out.) The National Law Journal article behind the post requires subscription. Quoting: "Lawyers are noting a new type of lawsuit, in which employees are suing over time spent booting [up] their computers. ... During the past year, several companies, including ATamp;T Inc., UnitedHealth Group Inc. and Cigna Corp., have been hit with lawsuits in which employees claimed that they were not paid for the 15- to 30-minute task of booting their computers at the start of each day and logging out at the end. Add those minutes up over a week, and hourly employees are losing some serious pay, argues plaintiffs' lawyer Mark Thierman, a Las Vegas solo practitioner who has filed a handful of computer-booting lawsuits in recent years. ... [A] management-side attorney... who is defending a half-dozen employers in computer-booting lawsuits... believes that, in most cases, computer booting does not warrant being called work."pa href="http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/18/1754236amp;from=rss"img src="http://yro.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=08/11/18/1754236"/a/ppa href="http://news.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/18/1754236amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/AESgb7sxFEhQEzwZ-Ecq1zawazU/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/AESgb7sxFEhQEzwZ-Ecq1zawazU/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotYourRightsOnline/~4/azoBPcCylqY" height="1" width="1"/

More documents are coming out in court proceedings over the Vista Capable debacle. Internetnews.com has good coverage of HP's fury over Microsoft lowering the requirements for a Vista Capable sticker, at Intel's request. "Intel officials may have been pleased that Microsoft lowered standards for obtaining the company's Windows Vista Capable logo program sticker, but the same can't be said about HP's execs. 'I can't be more clear than to say you not only let us down by reneging on your commitment to stand behind the [device driver model] requirement, you have demonstrated a complete lack of commitment to HP as a strategic partner and cost us a lot of money in the process,' said one e-mail from Richard Walker, the senior vice president of HP's consumer business unit, to [Microsoft executives]." PCPro.co.uk follows the trail of accusatory emails inside Microsoft from there: "HP's email prompted then Microsoft co-President, Jim Allchin, to send a furious email of his own to company CEO Steve Ballmer. Allchin's email suggests the decision to lower the requirements was made in his absence by Ballmer, following 'a call between you and Paul [Otellini, Intel CEO].' 'I am beyond being upset here,' Allchin wrote to Ballmer. 'What a mess. Now we have an upset partner, Microsoft destroyed credibility [sic], as well as my own credibility shot.' Ballmer, in turn, blamed another Microsoft executive, Will Poole, in a rather erratically typed reply to Allchin."pa href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/18/1816253amp;from=rss"img src="http://yro.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=08/11/18/1816253"/a/ppa href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/18/1816253amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/KRpstqY4kEgLPEZgWfT7c8llsWE/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/KRpstqY4kEgLPEZgWfT7c8llsWE/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotYourRightsOnline/~4/84i4fvotNTM" height="1" width="1"/

holy_calamity writes "Article One Partners is a new startup that offers $50,000 rewards to people that find prior art for certain valuable patents. The company's founder told New Scientist she thought the initiative would improve 'patent quality' by increasing scrutiny on poor patents. She aims to profit by selling the information contributors collect, or trade stocks based on it. Current patents they are looking for help to bust include those being used by Konami to sue Harmonix over Rock Band and Guitar Hero."pa href="http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/18/1725231amp;from=rss"img src="http://yro.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=08/11/18/1725231"/a/ppa href="http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/18/1725231amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/wxv2r3h1rC2S5RqKd37KoKiD3SQ/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/wxv2r3h1rC2S5RqKd37KoKiD3SQ/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotYourRightsOnline/~4/sOENAOPjaXg" height="1" width="1"/

piemcfly writes "Chinese-born physicist Shu Quan-Sheng Monday pleaded guilty before a US court to violating the Arms Export Control Act by illegally exporting American military space know-how to China. The 68-year-old naturalized US citizen, pictured here on his company profile, admitted handing over the design of fueling systems between 2003 and 2007. Also, in 2003 he illegally exported a document with the impossibly long name of 'Commercial Information, Technical Proposal and Budgetary Officer mdash; Design, Supply, Engineering, Fabrication, Testing amp; Commissioning of 100m3 Liquid Hydrogen Tank and Various Special Cryogenic Pumps, Valves, Filters and Instruments.' This contained the design of liquid hydrogen tanks for space launch vehicles. He also admitted to a third charge of bribing Chinese officials to the tune of some 189,300 dollars for a French space technology firm." Here's the FBI press release regarding Shu's plea.pa href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/18/1441216amp;from=rss"img src="http://yro.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=08/11/18/1441216"/a/ppa href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/18/1441216amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/aj57F9YpBtpAO23fxHCyE8x9-_Q/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/aj57F9YpBtpAO23fxHCyE8x9-_Q/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotYourRightsOnline/~4/7wANvRv8VWg" height="1" width="1"/

CSMatt points with this excerpt from the EFF's page: "Last week, the RIAA celebrated the signing of a ridiculous new law in Tennessee that says: 'Each public and private institution of higher education in the state that has student residential computer networks shall: [...] [R]easonably attempt to prevent the infringement of copyrighted works over the institution's computer and network resources, if such institution receives fifty (50) or more legally valid notices of infringement as prescribed by the Digital Millennium Copyright Act of 1998 within the preceding year.' While the entertainment industry failed to get 'hard' requirements for universities in the Higher Education Act passed by Congress earlier this year, the RIAA succeeded in Tennessee (and is pushing in other states) with this provision that gives Big Content the ability to hold universities hostage through the use of infringement notices. Moreover, the new rules will cost Tennessee a pretty penny mdash; in the cost review attached to the Tennessee bill, the state's Fiscal Review Committee estimates that the new obligations will initially cost the state a whopping $9.5 million for software, hardware, and personnel, with recurring annual costs of more than $1.5 million for personnel and maintenance."pa href="http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/18/1327228amp;from=rss"img src="http://yro.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=08/11/18/1327228"/a/ppa href="http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/18/1327228amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/7K4XLbuSNE6rvDieb2U9okWhC7A/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/7K4XLbuSNE6rvDieb2U9okWhC7A/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotYourRightsOnline/~4/mh3uDNa1wV0" height="1" width="1"/

holy_calamity writes "Engineers at Polytechnic University Brooklyn have discovered that digital snaps shorn of any metadata still reveal the make and model of camera used to take them. It is possible to work backwards from the relationships of neighboring pixel values in a shot to identify the model-specific demosaicing algorithm that combines red, green, and blue pixels on the sensor into color image pixels. Forensics teams are already licking their chops."pa href="http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/18/0115242amp;from=rss"img src="http://yro.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=08/11/18/0115242"/a/ppa href="http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/18/0115242amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/5EnzXTgyYkrvGSBhlDDq8m3SEFc/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/5EnzXTgyYkrvGSBhlDDq8m3SEFc/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotYourRightsOnline/~4/Jg5wffOUJbI" height="1" width="1"/

schwit1 sends along an Ars Technica report covering the release of documents obtained under the FOIA suggesting that the Justice Department may have been evading privacy laws in their use of "triggerfish" technology. Triggerfish are cell-tower spoofing devices that induce cell phones to give up their location and other identifying information, without recourse to any cell carrier. "Courts in recent years have been raising the evidentiary bar law enforcement agents must meet in order to obtain historical cell phone records that reveal information about a target's location. But documents obtained by civil liberties groups under a Freedom of Information Act request suggest that 'triggerfish' technology can be used to pinpoint cell phones without involving cell phone providers at all. The Justice Department's electronic surveillance manual explicitly suggests that triggerfish may be used to avoid restrictions in statutes like CALEA that bar the use of pen register or trap-and-trace devices..." The article does mention that the Patriot Act contains language that should require a court order to deploy triggerfish, whereas prior to 2001 "the statutory language governing pen register or trap-and-trace orders did not appear to cover location tracking technology."pa href="http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/17/2218209amp;from=rss"img src="http://yro.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=08/11/17/2218209"/a/ppa href="http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/17/2218209amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/EwylK4JwweOamzmwhFzitjgYtjo/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/EwylK4JwweOamzmwhFzitjgYtjo/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotYourRightsOnline/~4/xiakBSvFspg" height="1" width="1"/

An anonymous reader writes "Do you contribute to open source projects under your real name or a nickname? The openness of open source can be encouraging, but software patents you have never heard of can become a nightmare if a patent troll sues for implementing 'their' scroll bar. A real name also means you end up in the big index we call search engines. An assumed name could be an additional layer of protection, but what are its pros and cons and is it worth the hassle when asked to participate in a meatspace meeting?"pa href="http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/17/1746239amp;from=rss"img src="http://yro.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=08/11/17/1746239"/a/ppa href="http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/17/1746239amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/_05H9LgqPXFYxvNGEhWVazXuk-o/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/_05H9LgqPXFYxvNGEhWVazXuk-o/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotYourRightsOnline/~4/E8wTzNTqjQ8" height="1" width="1"/

Ben Seberry writes "It appears Dell has been caught red-faced by yet another pricing mistake on their Australian website. Many customers thought they had spotted a fantastic deal when they came across a 55%-off offer. Dell later denied that this was a valid special and telephoned customers to offer them a choice of the standard price, or a cancelled order. Dell's senior manager of corporate communication came out and apologized for the mistake, promising processes would be reviewed to prevent it from happening again. In the days after the original 'incorrectly priced' offer was fixed, Dell made a different error leading to an even cheaper price being advertised. This time, on many user forums and blogs, users are debating Australian contract law as it applies to this matter mdash; it is not as clear-cut as many originally believed."pa href="http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/17/0234256amp;from=rss"img src="http://yro.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=08/11/17/0234256"/a/ppa href="http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/17/0234256amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/F58ryvnQy4WQ7-9o4LIQekUVY44/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/F58ryvnQy4WQ7-9o4LIQekUVY44/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotYourRightsOnline/~4/O_4c7gCWVPA" height="1" width="1"/

James Mathew writes "This is an interesting story from Kerala, India, where the ruling Communist Party organized a national conference in its efforts to hijack the Free Software Movement, which has enviable roots in the state. They got Novell to sponsor it. On the second day of the conference, a few free software activists who displayed posters against Novell were manhandled by the organizers and police mdash; typical of what is expected from them. Most of the snaps taken during the scuffle were forcefully deleted by the organizers, after seizing the protesters' mobile phones. Still they couldn't delete all. Here is another blow-by-blow account."pa href="http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/17/0120203amp;from=rss"img src="http://yro.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=08/11/17/0120203"/a/ppa href="http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/17/0120203amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/-we9DizXVfMiIckiycNh8qqT5as/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/-we9DizXVfMiIckiycNh8qqT5as/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotYourRightsOnline/~4/4csXC8rm5wU" height="1" width="1"/

theodp writes "Intellectual Ventures (IV) will be setting up shop at the top of a Four Seasons this week as Headline Sponsor of the Ready to Commercialize 2008 conference hosted by the University of Texas at Austin. It's the patent firm's 100th university deal, though some, such as Professor Michael Heller at Columbia University, warn against such deals. '... their individual profit comes at the cost of the public ability to innovate. The university's larger mission is to serve the public interest, and some of these deals work against that public interest.' It's a follow-up to the conference IV sponsored last summer for technology transfer professionals entrusted with commercializing their universities' intellectual property, and should help IV, a friend of Microsoft, snag even more exclusive deals (PDF)."pa href="http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/16/189248amp;from=rss"img src="http://yro.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=08/11/16/189248"/a/ppa href="http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/16/189248amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/wlowSUwEBRVSGt2Bv5A3kl36mZg/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/wlowSUwEBRVSGt2Bv5A3kl36mZg/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotYourRightsOnline/~4/Jkkpm0hvEN4" height="1" width="1"/

An anonymous reader writes "TorrentFreak reports that Toyota's lawyers have recently contacted computer wallpaper site Desktop Nexus in a blatant example of DMCA abuse. Toyota issued a blanket request to demand the immediate removal of all member-uploaded wallpapers featuring a Toyota, Lexus, or Scion vehicle (citing copyright violation), regardless of whether Toyota legally holds the copyright to the photos or not. When site owner Harry Maugans requested clarification on exactly which wallpapers were copyrighted by Toyota, he was told that for them to cite specifics (in order to file proper DMCA Takedown Notices), they would invoice Desktop Nexus for their labor."pa href="http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/16/1258246amp;from=rss"img src="http://yro.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=08/11/16/1258246"/a/ppa href="http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/16/1258246amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/LPerEdzt6DVGd3Twlp7ol1jf0to/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/LPerEdzt6DVGd3Twlp7ol1jf0to/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotYourRightsOnline/~4/fx0I2KM5P5Y" height="1" width="1"/

An anonymous reader notes that TorrentFreak is reporting: "French record labels have received the green light to sue four US-based companies that develop P2P applications, including the BitTorrent client Vuze, Limewire, and Morpheus. Shareaza is the fourth application, for which the labels are going after the open source development platform SourceForge. ... Putting aside the discussion on the responsibilities of application developers for their users activities, the decision to go after SourceForge for hosting a application that can potentially infringe, is stretching credibility beyond all bounds." SourceForge is Slashdot's corporate parent.pa href="http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/16/015220amp;from=rss"img src="http://yro.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=08/11/16/015220"/a/ppa href="http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/16/015220amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/A_A6fhfTg7cVyOMF8e6q7GhgHjg/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/A_A6fhfTg7cVyOMF8e6q7GhgHjg/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotYourRightsOnline/~4/hkOM0_56vRY" height="1" width="1"/

An anonymous reader notes that TorrentFreak is reporting: "French record labels have received the green light to sue four US-based companies that develop P2P applications, including the BitTorrent client Vuze, Limewire, and Morpheus. Shareaza is the fourth application, for which the labels are going after the open source development platform SourceForge. ... Putting aside the discussion on the responsibilities of application developers for their users activities, the decision to go after SourceForge for hosting a application that can potentially infringe, is stretching credibility beyond all bounds." SourceForge is Slashdot's corporate parent.pa href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/16/015220amp;from=rss"img src="http://yro.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=08/11/16/015220"/a/ppa href="http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/16/015220amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/gHTg-ZMvEMO9GNWTocx-VsPL6Aw/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/gHTg-ZMvEMO9GNWTocx-VsPL6Aw/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotYourRightsOnline/~4/DvFrvAggJfI" height="1" width="1"/

canadian_right writes "A Calgary man was fined $1,495 and banned from theaters for a year in the first conviction under a new Canadian law making recording a movie in a theater a crime. Until the new law took effect in 2007, prosecutors had to show evidence of distribution to get a conviction; now, recording without permission is sufficient. The Canadian Motion Picture Distributors Association was disappointed that jail time was not given." The man was also banned for a year from possessing any video recording equipment, even a video-capable cellphone, outside of his home.pa href="http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/15/2359233amp;from=rss"img src="http://yro.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=08/11/15/2359233"/a/ppa href="http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/15/2359233amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/V7eMfibMZVTvcVqrX1oaPRx5bQ4/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/V7eMfibMZVTvcVqrX1oaPRx5bQ4/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotYourRightsOnline/~4/CdGMrbUGwEo" height="1" width="1"/

Stephan Schulz writes "A German Member of parliament for a left-wing party, Lutz Heilmann, has obtained a preliminary injunction against the local chapter of the Wikimedia foundation, Wikimedia Deutschland e.V., forbidding the forwarding of the popular http://wikipedia.de to the proper http://de.wikipedia.org. Apparently Heilmann is not happy with the fact that his Wikipedia article (English version) contains information on his work for the former GDR Stasi, the much-hated internal secret service. Wikimedia Germany displays a page explaining the situation, and has announced that it will file an objection to get the injunction lifted. The German Wikipedia has more than 800,000 pages, and is hosted, like all Wikimedia projects, by the Florida-based Wikimedia Foundation, and hence beyond the effective reach of at least German politicians and judges."pa href="http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/15/1944211amp;from=rss"img src="http://yro.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=08/11/15/1944211"/a/ppa href="http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/15/1944211amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/F_VE9K2CYYsWQHycjhyKg4-gdUg/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/F_VE9K2CYYsWQHycjhyKg4-gdUg/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotYourRightsOnline/~4/EzNGm7ejPxY" height="1" width="1"/

Gamasutra has a story questioning whether schools should be able to hold intellectual property rights on games created by students. The point out a recent incident in which a development team was unable to market a game they created, and another situation where a school overrode the creator's decision to withdraw the game from a contest. "What irks Aikman is that, after graduating, he and his team approached DigiPen, hoping it might change its policy and make an exception for the award-winning game, but the school wouldn't budge. 'They were dead set on not setting a precedent because, if they let us keep the IP, they were afraid other students would want the same. But I believe there's something wrong with the idea of DigiPen owning games it has no intention of doing anything with, while discouraging people like me who could really make use of our efforts and use it as a springboard to a career.'"pa href="http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/15/1753205amp;from=rss"img src="http://yro.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=08/11/15/1753205"/a/ppa href="http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/15/1753205amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/J-bAQIN7wJFlG-nnY2qVlq6LGu0/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/J-bAQIN7wJFlG-nnY2qVlq6LGu0/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotYourRightsOnline/~4/Aow0c4phAIg" height="1" width="1"/

circleid writes "The Obama-Biden transition team on Friday named two long-time net neutrality advocates to head up its Federal Communications Commission Review team. Susan Crawford, a professor at the University of Michigan Law School, member of the board of directors of ICANN, and OneWebDay founder, as well as Kevin Werbach, former FCC staffer, organizer of the annual Supernova technology conference, and a Wharton professor, will lead the Obama-Biden transition team's review of the FCC. 'Both are highly-regarded outside-the-Beltway experts in telecom policy, and they've both been pretty harsh critics of the Bush administration's telecom policies in the past year.' The choice of the duo strongly signals an entirely different approach to the incumbent-friendly telecom policy-making that's characterized most of the past eight-years at the FCC." Reuters has a related story about Senator Byron Dorgan (D-ND), who plans to introduce net neutrality legislation in January.pa href="http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/15/0343205amp;from=rss"img src="http://yro.slashdot.org/slashdot-it.pl?from=rssamp;op=imageamp;style=h0amp;sid=08/11/15/0343205"/a/ppa href="http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=08/11/15/0343205amp;from=rss"Read more of this story/a at Slashdot./p pa href="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/EwMXoR1BadPO3Zi-oc9JyoIOsbs/a"img src="http://feedads.googleadservices.com/~a/EwMXoR1BadPO3Zi-oc9JyoIOsbs/i" border="0" ismap="true"/img/a/pimg src="http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/Slashdot/slashdotYourRightsOnline/~4/Ji6KMOEOEsI" height="1" width="1"/