Author Archives: Alvin Trusty

Lecture Copyright

Posted on April 4, 2008 by Alvin Trusty

Here’s a gem from Techdirt about a professor that is suing someone for selling notes of his lecture.  He is claiming he has a copyright on what he says in class and someone else can’t take his ideas, write them … Continue reading →

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News

Posted on April 1, 2008 by Alvin Trusty

I’m from Google and my wife is from Yahoo.  Yet we both get the same headlines every day.  Actually she has Yahoo as her start page while I use Protopage as mine.  Her news is right there in Yahoo.  Mine … Continue reading →

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Turnitin’s method is fair use

Posted on March 26, 2008 by Alvin Trusty

Last year a group of students decided to fight back against the plagiarism tool being used by their school.  Before submitting an assignment to Turnitin, one of the students submitted all the legal documents to register the original paper as a copyrighted … Continue reading →

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What’s wrong with this picture

Posted on March 24, 2008 by Alvin Trusty

Here is something most teenagers don’t know.  Stealing a CD from Wal-Mart isn’t nearly as bad (based on the magnitude of the fine) as downloading the same CD using an illegal P2P networking.  See chart below. If the height of … Continue reading →

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SP1 Fixed My Vista Problem

Posted on March 19, 2008 by Alvin Trusty

I have discussed the one major problem that I have had with Microsoft Vista.  For no apparent reason, my ability to right-click randomly stops working.  The problem continues until I close Internet Explorer.  Often closing it doesn’t work and I have to end … Continue reading →

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