EFF Tells Clear Channel To Record This Patent
from the about-time dept
Two years ago, radio giant Clear Channel bought a patent describing a method for making instant recordings of live concerts for sale. Clear Channel quickly began bullying any bands that offered post-concert sales of recordings into using its technology (and paying for the privilege, of course). Soon afterwards, the EFF put together a list of patents that needed to be busted, with second place going to this Clear Channel patent. Apparently, it takes a bit of time to go from saying a patent should be shot to actually lining up and firing, because it took until this week to finally ask the patent office to re-examine the Clear Channel patent. The EFF submitted some prior art, showing similar technology in place a year prior to the patent filing. Of course, you could also make the case that the basic concept of recording a concert and then offering it for sale really shouldn't be patentable at all -- but the patent office doesn't seem to care about things like that.
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No Subject Given
Now we're patenting methods, ideas, software and all kinds of worthless crap...
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Re: No Subject Given
Nobody has patented lobbying.
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My patent on dumping.
It involves lostening one's outergarmets, pulling down undergarmets, lining up one's feet in a parallel direction with the intended target - usually a toilet, assuming either a squatting or sitting position, and ... you know the rest.
Soon, I will be very, very, rich - as I sue everyone on the planet who uses my patent without a license ...
Who hah hah ha (evil laugh and wringing of hands)
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Patent patenting...
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That was MY idea
Here is my methodology:
A) Look around at what other people are doing.
B) Select someone doing something interesting, preferrably one who is getting attention (social currency).
C) Run over and yell. "Hey! That was MY idea!"
D) Take something from the "offender".
but I have to admit, "patented poop" beats this post by a mile.
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Re: My patent on dumping.
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Re: My patent on dumping.
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Sign me up.
Haw.
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My patent on unattributed quotes
Life. Don't talk to me about Life.
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Re: My patent on dumping.
Sorry, I've got prior art on that. How old are you?
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No Subject Given
can they sue you for using human genes?
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Re: My patent on dumping.
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Can you add a vapor removal system for my girlfriend? Smells like roses my ass.
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