The online classified site Craigslist dropped a provision that asserted an exclusive license to users' posts just two weeks after implementing it, CNET reported. The effort was intended to fend off third parties trying to repurpose the site's listings, but a sympathetic note from the Electronic Frontier Foundation explained that after meeting with Craigslist, the company agreed to change its policy.
The group's statement reads, in part:
We understand that Craigslist faces real challenges in trying to preserve its character and does not want third parties to simply reuse its content in ways that are out of line with its user community's expectations and could be harmful to its users. Nevertheless, it was important for Craigslist to remove the provision because claiming an exclusive license to the user's posts - to the exclusion of everyone, including the original poster - would have harmed both innovation and u sers' rights, and would have set a terrible precedent.
Retail sales of new video game hardware, software and accessories fell for the eighth-straight month in July to $548.4 million, The Associated Press reported, citing a report by the research firm NPD group. Even with the anticipated introduction of Nintendo Wii U later in the year, the firm predicted full-year sales would be $14.5 billion, down from $17 billion last year.
Writing in the At War blog, Amalie Flynn describes the Google search terms that lead readers to her blog, Wife and War. It is a testament to how a search engine takes inchoate thoughts like “husband off to Afghanistan soon†or “who comes and tells you your husband died at war†or “I'm suffering because my husband is mean now back from war†and produces “results,†including Ms. Flynn's blog. In the post she imagines the wives typing in these queries alone, trusting that the computer can provide answers and support .
The will of Adam Yauch, one of the Beastie Boys, who died in May at age 47, instructs that his image, music and any art he created could not be used for advertising, the Web site DNAinfo.com reports.
The Curiosity rover that landed on Mars on Monday morning has a Twitter feed that already has nearly a million followers. For a serious scientific mission, the rover prefers to communicate in informal terms, throwing in an occasional “lol†for good measure.
Entering Mars' atmosphere. 7. Minutes. Of. Terror. Starts. NOW. #MSL
- Curiosity Rover (@MarsCuriosity) August 6, 2012
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