Update:Thanks to this article published by The Times today, the ORG phones have been buzzing all morning. BBC Worldwide have released a statement (copied in the comments below) and Mazz has updated her homepage to reflect what’s been going on. …
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BBC removes Doctor Who fan’s knitting patterns from the Web
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Thanks to all ORG Election Observers!
http://www.openrightsgroup.org/2008/05/06/thanks-to-all-org-election-observers/A huge thanks to everyone who devoted their day to democracy last week, and joined the Open Rights Group Election Watch 2008. Over the next month, we’ll be compiling a report of what we saw at the elections, and specifically at the electronic count of 7 million ballot papers in Alexandra Palace, ExCel and Olympia on 2 May. …
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Supporter update - April 2008
http://www.openrightsgroup.org/2008/04/30/supporter-update-april-2008/Its that time again and this month we have news on our vacancy for a campaigner, electionwatch ‘08 and the usual round-up of press and activities. Click to read the April 2008 supporter update …
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Jon Grant's Technorama
http://jguk.orgDoubleClick no marketing opt in. Onmniture (WebSideStory) SiteCatalist HBX Hitbox no marketing opt in. Nielsen no marketing opt in (make sure you click "Total Opt-Out" !) Google Web History remove guide. (Highlighted on ORG-Discuss list) I do think we need an international standard ad-tracking opt out like the BBC say. For the meantime we just need Firefox and other browsers to start shipping with these cookies set by default. Also we need a Firefox extension which let's users
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Big news week
http://www.blogcoven.com/wp/2008/05/15/big-news-week/stir in my two primary extracurricular activities (knitting and Doctor Who — gaming, sadly, has taken a back seat since everyone I gamed with has moved away or the games have dissolved). I’ve been collecting links for a
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Dr. Who Pattern Debacle - Whose Property is Intellectual?
http://natknits.wordpress.com/2008/05/15/dr-who-pattern-deba...argument over some knitting patterns
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Cool Guru - Guru of every thing
http://www.coolguru.usBBC removes Doctor Who fans knitting patterns from the Web The copyright police is coming to get your granny. :bullshit: dav May 15th, 2008 | Posted in Law & Ethics Discussions | Comments Off
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sampling with a ball of wool and 2 sticks? BEWARE.
http://www.coolguru.us/2008/05/15/sampling-with-a-ball-of-wo...BBC removes Doctor Who fan’s knitting patterns from the Web
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The random musings of a 1973 Original
http://cypheroftyr.wordpress.comWell, it must be catching attention if Neil Gaiman would blog about the foolishness that the BBC is up to now. They are going after a knitter who created some Dr. Who patterns and was not selling them. Some fool put them up on Ebay as sales and now the Beeb has gone after the pattern maker. Thanks to whatever dickwad reported the patterns on Ebay, Mazzmatazz has had to remove their works from their site.
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BBC Goes after Dr. Who knitting pattern maker
http://cypheroftyr.wordpress.com/2008/05/15/bbc-goes-after-d...They are going after a knitter who created some Dr. Who patterns and was not selling them. Some fool put them up on Ebay as sales and now the Beeb has gone after the pattern maker. Thanks to whatever dickwad reported the patterns on Ebay, Mazzmatazz has had to remove their works from their site.
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Adipose Copyright Battle Escalates
http://downthetubescomics.blogspot.com/2008/05/adipose-copyr...it acted because finished figures were being sold by others on auction website eBay. It also denied threatening legal action and as I hopd, it said it had indeed offered to consider marketing the designs itself. The case is being publicised by the Open Rights Group, a lobbying organisation which specialises in digital rights issues. (There is a detailed analysis of the issues raised on Technollama by Andres Guadamuz, a member of the ORG and who has seen all the correspondence between the pattern creator and the
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Brief Trademark Ponders
http://journal.neilgaiman.com/2008/05/brief-trademark-ponder...to be confused with copyright, but people do, and so do I). For example, the Open Rights Group (of which, last time I looked, I was Patron, but I don't have to do anything except be on the letterhead and possibly make the cucumber sandwiches) posted http://www.openrightsgroup.org/2008/05/08/bbc-removes-doctor-who-fans-knitting-patterns-from-the-web/ -- the story of a fan who was told by the BBC to take down the Dr Who knitting patterns from her website. Interestingly, the Head of Communications at the BBC left a message on the ORG blog, and amplified it on the BBC news site
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