#intellectual_property — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #intellectual_property, aggregated by home.social.
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Netherlands returns control of Nexperia to Chinese owner
https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-11-19/dutch-hand-back-control-of-chinese-owned-chipmaker-nexperia
#ycombinator #Netherlands #Government #Beijing #China #Automotive #Europe #Exports #Intellectual_Property #HONDA_MOTOR_CO_LTD #VOLKSWAGEN_AG #business #politics #technology -
#Patents and #copyrights were never intended to “prevent people from stealing” or create perpetual ownership. It was intended to incentivize inventions that served the public good by providing inventors with a limited window of exclusivity as a reward for developing a concrete implementation of something innovative before it became freely available to the creative commons. It has become a toll-gate and a means of profiteering, but rewarding contributions to the commons was the real reason that #intellectual_property laws were created.
A short-term limited monopoly to encourage innovation is not the same thing as long-term stifling of competition. Innovation should be encouraged, but patents and copyrights today encourage #patent_trolling and #submarine_patents, create long-term barriers to entry, and impoverish the commons in ways that are rarely "short-term" or "limited."
1/ https://mastodon.social/@eff/113929932822398812
2/ https://www.linkedin.com/posts/todd-a-jacobs_so-theres-this-totally-scientific-method-activity-7291532656419221504-s67x -
It's almost not worth bothering to even mention this anymore, as anyone who's not a complete moron should intrinsically know this - considering the news coverage and legal proceedings resulting in the "no expectation of privacy", along with the "everything you do on company resources belongs to the company" paradigm that over the past several decades has been well established, very publicly.
Two things however, that may not have been realized by EVERYONE:
1. ) Anything you DO on company time belongs to the company as well. This includes ideas in your head imagined while on the clock.
2. ) Regardless of what you want to call it: #EMM, MDM, or the new buzz-acronym #UEM (which all means essentially the same thing), when coupled with #BYOD, also pierces your veil of privacy.I've been on both ends of this for decades as an IT Professional. It's ugly and can be destructive to your (expensive) personal property, so I recommend...
a.) First, don't do ANYTHING on your own personal devices when you're on someone else's clock! See #1 above.
b.) When you show up to work on your first day and they send you down to HR and then tech support, it's very common for them to innocuously ask to see your phone, at which point they'll install an #MDM on it. The best thing you can do then and there is to inform them that if anyone EVER touches your phone you'll break their fucking fingers; and if they want you to have a mobile device with an MDM/UEM installed on it, they can issue one for you from their inventory of existing corporate assets. Otherwise, pound sand bitches.
#tallship #surveillance #privacy #Intellectual_Property #Copyright #Trademark
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Big Macs and the Cost of Living Crisis
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2024-08-05/cost-of-living-interest-rates-burgers/104156654
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McDonald's Loses 'Big Mac' Trademark in European Union
https://apnews.com/article/mcdonalds-big-mac-eu-trademark-ireland-14922a383563c60592bd3ee152a73d87
#ycombinator #Europe #European_Union #General_news #IL_State_Wire #World_news #Business #Courts #Politics #Intellectual_property #World_News -
Author granted copyright over book with AI-generated text–with a twist
https://www.wired.com/story/the-us-copyright-office-loosens-up-a-little-on-ai/
#ycombinator #artificial_intelligence #machine_learning #algorithms #intellectual_property #copyright #books #creativity #openai #chatgpt #literature -
A couple of things.
1.) No. It is not (Short answer, in direct response to your question).
2.) Not linking directly to YouTube videos is actually ahead of the curve not behind it.
3.) Your current pactice to date of not linking directly to YouTube videos has a lot of benefits to your readers whether they bother to directly appreciate it or not. Here are some reasons for that, and facilities waiting for you, as a #Fedizen in the #Fediverse, and one who can appreciate the protection of people's privacy and data integrity free of being quantified by industrial data and privacy mining engines:
- PeerTube is a great resource, and you can link directly to any video hosted on PeerTube. Not only that but #PeerTube has facilities to quickly clone any YouTube VoD (check the license at YouTube or contact the Copyright owner (creator/publisher) directly if they didn't take the time to avoid the default YouTube license.
- If you're the publisher/creator of the VoD then what some folks do is to upload part of it to YouTube with a big splash banner alerting the viewer to visit a particular URL to the PeerTube instance (Many also specify Odysee) video. There are a lot of very prominent so-called YouTube influencers or creators that do this as standard practice, even splitting their videos into two versions - the beginning, which is on YouTube, and the rest of the video which is hosted somewhere else in its entirety, and this works very well for them.
- If it's not your creation, then there's a few #FOSS tools to instantly convert a YouTube URL to a VoD into an Invidious URL to stream the video. What's especially awesome about doing it this way, is that, on almost all Fediverse platforms, even the decrepit stock mastodon instances, a very pretty link preview of the video is presnted, and most Fediverse platforms even support an embedded player experience right there in your stream so you never have to leave your Fediverse client.
- Following up on that last suggestion, is the fact that when you post an invidious link to a video anyone who clicks through to view it can simply click on the download button, choose the quality of the video, and voila! They now have a local copy for themselves!NOTE: There are a lot of invidious servers across the Internet, I recommend choosing a good stable one that's been around for a while, and using that one by setting up a shortcut for yourself (you only need to insert the YouTube ID in the URL). If anything ever happens to that server you can quickly replace the actual Invidious instance for all of your vids :)
So again, to recap what I said in response to your poll, No. You're not behind the curve at all, you're a #pathfinder, ahead of the curve, doing your part to respect the privacy of others who may otherwise be deprived of the content that you publish.
As a #Privacy conscious publisher and obviously, a member of the Fediverse thank you for your commitment to user safety and the protection of their own Intellectual property and privacy, free from the tracking and privacy mining operations of the deprecated, monolithic silos!
All the best!
#tallship #VoD #Intellectual_Property
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RE: https://exquisite.social/users/thomholwerda/statuses/111991384858660940
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Are ecological processes that select #beneficial #traits in #agricultural #microbes nature’s #intellectual_property rights?
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41587-023-01966-7
@IMPACTT @MicrobioJC #SciComm @academicchatter @academicsunite @openscience
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“Poke the bear joey, poke the bear!”
Don’t poke that fucking bear kids
“Poke it again Joey poke it again hahaha!”
You shouldn’t have poked the fucking bear… Now You Die!
https://odysee.com/@BrodieRobertson:5/discord-tried-to-end-this-reverse:9
You can’t say we didn’t warn you.
Stupid goes all the way to the 🦴 bone.
But really, What did you expect from idiots that even have their discussion groups on the very same deprecated monolithic silo that they’re in the process of burglarizing?
Beavis and Butthead have more sense than these Morons
#tallship #FOSS #intellectual_property #reverse_engineering #theft #paybacks_a_bitch #poking_the_bear
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He's just taking out the trash right now. A lot like Castro did in the 70's.
That will all eventually settle down, with the majority of those participating in the knee-jerk reaction of the #mob_mentality eventually returning...
They've been subjugated as the downtrodden and insignificant chattel of those deprecated, privacy disrespecting, legacy monolithic silos. The #addiction is strong within them and they've been #assimilated by the prettiness of the #Darkside, lolz.
Many will however, choose to stay, enjoying the unbroken promises of #freedom and safety from being weighed, measured, butchered, packaged, and placed into inventory on the shelves of #Faceplant, #Twatter, #InstaSPAM, and other #deprecated_legacy_silos.
Many more will remain here while at the same time cave to the sinister beckonings of those evil mistresses, but at least they'll have one foot 🦶 here in the pasture of green 💚
For those of us that have been in this free space for the past 5 or 6 years, all we can do is welcome them back from the #Borg Collective and try to support their best inclinations as best we can.
The ultimate test of their commitment to protect the ownership of their #intellectual_property, privacy, and #identity is a matter they will ultimately have to decide the importance of for themselves.
Ask the best!
#tallship #FOSS #Fediverse #ActivityPub
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