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You are hereIntellectual PropertySpecial Report: Google on Piracy: Not Telling the Whole Truth and Nothing but the Truth – Part 16 Google’s Disrespect for Property SeriesSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Fri, 2013-10-04 11:38Google’s recent “Report: How Google Fights Piracy,” begs cross-examination, for the same reason courts and Congress employ the tool of cross examination and the process of adversarial hearings to get to the real truth. We all are familiar with the legal oath: “Do you solemnly swear that you will tell the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth so help you God?” Congress: Restore Our Rightful Privacy Ownership – My Daily Caller Op-ed – Part 2 of Privacy Theft SeriesSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Thu, 2013-09-19 08:55
Please don’t miss my latest op-ed: “Congress: Restore Our Rightful Privacy Ownership” – here.
It makes the case that privacy is a form of property under the Constitution and that Congress must step up and legislate in order to restore Americans’ reasonable expectation of privacy online -- regardless of what technology is involved.
Own your privacy.
Privacy Theft Series FYI – New Online Research Library of Precursor’s Top Research SeriesSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Thu, 2013-09-05 16:34Please find the new Precursor online Research Library -- here -- which will be kept up-to-date going forward.
This should make it much easier to scan and find particular research of interest by subject and theme.
Thank you. Precursor LLC – Proven Thought Leadership
Google protesteth Larry Ellison too much that Google does not steal… Part 15 Google Disrespect for Property SeriesSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Wed, 2013-08-28 11:59Yet again, Google has violated the first rule of holes; when in a hole, stop digging. Google is unwisely keeping the story alive that Oracle CEO Larry Ellison said this to Charlie Rose on air: [Google] “took our stuff and … that was wrong. This really bothers me. I don’t see how [Larry Page] thinks you can just copy someone else’s stuff.” In a Google+ post to his followers, Google Chairman Eric Schmidt responded: “We typically try to avoid getting dragged into public battles with other companies. But I’ve gotten a lot of questions about Larry Ellison’s claims that Google “took [Oracle’s] stuff”. It’s simply untrue -- and that’s not just my opinion, but the judgment of a U.S. District Court.” Does Google really want to engage in a broader public conversation about the truth and facts of Google’s serial disrespect for the property of others? Uneconomical vs. Economical Net Neutrality at the U.N. -- Part 11 Uneconomics vs. Economics SeriesSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Tue, 2013-08-20 17:30Information may want to be free, but physical networks are costly. Few proponents of net neutrality appreciate the trillions of dollars of investment it has taken to build and upgrade the Internet’s vast and varied infrastructure that we all enjoy today. Simply, the Internet is not free of cost. Economical policies have made the Internet universal and have enabled users to access the content, apps, and devices of their choice – what net neutrality is supposedly all about. On the other hand, uneconomical policies that discourage economic growth, return-on-investment, or respect for property can have unintended consequences and can threaten the proverbial goose that lays the golden eggs. Google-YouTube’s Internet Video Distribution Dominance -- Part XII of Googleopoly Research SeriesSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Tue, 2013-07-23 12:31Please click here for Google-YouTube's Internet Video Distribution Dominance -- Part XII of my seven-year, Googleopoly research series.
Google-YouTube’s Internet Video Distribution Dominance -- Part XII of Googleopoly Research Series
Is this the record of a trustworthy company? Check Out Google’s Consolidated Rap SheetSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Sun, 2013-06-16 22:33Google Inc. has a rap sheet longer than any Googler’s arm. See it here. It shows:
This evidence shows Google to be the worst corporate scofflaw in modern American history. It is timely and relevant given that America’s Attorneys General are meeting in Boston June 18th to discuss Google’s alleged aiding and abetting of criminal activity broadly. Google CEO Larry Page and General Counsel Kent Walker have been invited to the closed meeting to discuss the matter. The Bitcoin/Virtual Currency Bubble – Beware of the Alchemy of “Abundance Economics” – Part 2 The Code War SeriesSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Tue, 2013-06-04 11:58Bubbles happen because people ignore economics and assume away reality in their excitement over a new idea. “Virtual currencies” could be the latest tech “economics of abundance” bubble in the making. Fans of abundance economics imagine that the free and open Internet’s near zero marginal cost of borderless transactions will ultimately slay traditional economics of scarcity. Cyber-utopians imagine that currency, or money, is a simple function, like any other product or service that they have made openly available to everyone in the world at virtually no cost on the Internet. They imagine the only thing that matters with the business of money is how money is transmitted. They assume creating money is just a coding and crowd-sourcing task. How hard could that be? What possibly could go wrong? It’s only money. A Must Read: The Constitutional Foundations of Intellectual Property by FSFSubmitted by Scott Cleland on Fri, 2013-05-10 12:40For anyone interested in intellectual property rights, there is a new must read post by the Free State Foundation entitled: "The Constitutional Foundations of Intellectual Property," by Randy May and Seth Cooper. It is simply outstanding. It has great clarity of thought, scholarship and wisdom. It should become a succinct go-to piece that explains the philosophical and Constitutional underpinnings of property rights generally and intellectual property rights specifically. Don't miss it, and please let others know about it.
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