Wednesday, January 9, 2008

Most translated works

Way to go Iceland.

fedexfurniture.com

Fedexfurniture.com is a site by a guy who has made functional furniture (chairs, beds, etc) completely out of Fed-Ex packaging. Its actually kinda funny--take a look.

Of course, Fed-Ex couldn't resist sending him a letter about it, and (typical for in-house corporate counsel, who send out overreaching letters all the time to justify their salary) they completely mangle the law. The Stanford letter is a nice recap and bitchslap. Check out both, under "Legal Issues" on their site.

Tuesday, January 1, 2008

Recording Industry now attacks personal use

You copy your own CDs onto your own computer?

Pretty soon they will sue everyone for even listening to a song, since it is clear that you are both hearing the broadcast and reproducing that broadcast in your head.