Nintendo won because Atari had copied their lockout chip to be able to run and they raised the case base on copyright and patents. But patents are for inventions, not circuit diseases like the lock-out chip. If I make a virus and then someone makes an anti-virus I shouldn’t then be able to win a patent battle against them for how their anti-virus infringed on my patent! The lock-out-chip is only malware.

A glass blower started making glass-in-glass jellyfish. Another glass blower imitated it. They were sued for copyright violation; on appeal it was decided “ jellyfish in glass” was too broad to be copyrighted.

Good, effective use of slides

“Sergey Brin and Larry Page, the founders of Google, believe that expanding their company’s lobbying operation in Washington, D.C., has become a necessity.”

“The future of entertainment is in the millions of niche markets at the shallow end of the bitstream”