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SHIELD Act could save podcasting
Reps. DeFazio and Chaffetz announce the SHIELD ActA patent troll has been threatening the future of podcasting. A company called Personal Audio owns a patent that it claims covers podcasting, and has...
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The podcast patent troll speaks (to Planet Money)
In March we told you about the SHIELD Act which was introduced into Congress to help reform patent laws, particularly targeting patent owners who are “non-practicing,” meaning that they aren’t...
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Podcasting News: EFF To Challenge Patent Troll at Public Hearing
Today the podcast patent troll faces a hearing at the US Patent and Trademark Office. The Electronic Frontier Foundation has patiently worked to chip away at the patent owned by Personal Audio LLC...
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Digital Watch: FCC Approves Pandora Broadcast Buy; HD Radio Patent Troll...
At the top of this week’s digital radio news is an analog broadcast station. In a deal that took nearly two years to complete, on Monday the FCC removed the first barrier to Pandora buying Rapid City,...
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Even Its Creator Can’t Kill MP3
The MP3 is dead, we’re to believe. That’s because the technology’s inventor, the Fraunhofer Institute, has ended licensing of the patented technologies needed for the encoding and decoding of MP3...
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