Dec 9, 2021
Read Chapter 3 on free speech
Quad9 is an alternative DNS provider. It resolves to IP addresses the names of some sites that host pirated music. Quad9 was ordered by a German court to stop doing that. More at www.quad9.net/news/press/german-court-rules-against. The actions of Quad9 are hard to distinguish from merely telling people that, say, sci-hub.se is at address 186.2.163.219 (though this particular DNS address is available through the standard public DNS structure).
The issue is running Google searches with site:thepiratebay.org in the search-term box. Currently in the Netherlands nothing shows up. Google has long delisted or deranked Pirate Bay search results when searching for just a title, say "Avengers: Infinity War".
Google is cooperating voluntarily; it is not actually named in the court order. More at torrentfreak.com/google-removes-pirate-bay-domains-from-search-results-citing-dutch-court-order-211130.
All sound recordings made prior to 1923 will enter the pubic domain in the US in January. (Alas, this will not include the recordings of Annette Hanshaw.)
publicdomainreview.org/blog/2021/12/all-sound-recordings-prior-to-1923-will-enter-the-us-public-domain-in-2022.
What is the deal with software patents?
Obvious in context
Software-patent issues
Broad patents and the Wright brothers
Benson, Flook and Diehr
Federal Circuit
Examples of software patents
Heckel examples
Eolas
E-data
i4i
NTP
Patent trolls
Business methods
Apple patents
Stallman
Graham
Europe
KSR v Teleflex
Bilski
Mayo Labs, Myriad Genetics
Abstract patents; Ultramercial and Alice