EFF’s investigation revealed that ‘This Land is Your Land’ appears to have been in the public domain since the early 1970s. Woody Guthrie wrote his classic American song in 1940, when the copyright laws granted a copyright term of 28 years, renewable once for an additional 28. According to EFF, the initial copyright term was ...
In a sign that Google’s contextual ads might not be nearly as useful to marketers as its search advertising, the company removed contextual placements from the tops of pages served by its free blogging tool Blogger. In the ads’ place is now a Google search box designed to increase search traffic. The contextual ads ran ...
The next major release of the Mac OS X operating system will include technology that will eventually grant users more control over the way application windows are displayed to the screen. According to reliable sources, Apple Computer’s Mac OS X 10.4 ‘Tiger’ OS will introduce developer support for resolution independent user interfaces (UI), breaking the ...
Reset and Cancel Buttons (Alertbox Apr. 2000) Most Web forms would have improved usability if the Reset button was removed. Cancel buttons are also often of little value on the Web. It is one of the most basic heuristics for interaction design to support user control and freedom by allowing users an ’emergency exit’ out ...
instead of a groundswell of support, Real was skewered as a false advocate for open standards and mocked for its history of being unfriendly to its customers. Not surprisingly, a good chunk of the criticism came from Apple users who are legendary for their loyalty to the brand. ——–
This Land in Public Domain?
Aug
25
2004
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