A bunch of interesting stories in the news related to copyright and patent law recently...

Sklyarov's company seems to be interested in selling a new application to allow circumvention of Microsoft's ebook format. He's the one who was arrested by the FBI when he came to the U.S. for a conference, because his company sold software to circumvent the protection on PDF files...

A great long article on the implication of expanding copyright protections for the future of our society. I hope we can find some way of overcoming these problems soon — the disconnect between mega-corporations and citizens is getting bigger by the day.

BT Group thought it had a patent on hyperlinking! Luckily, they've lost their suit against Prodigy, although Prodigy had to pay millions to defend themselves against this trash... Being discussed on slashdot, along with another catch-all story with a bunch of copyright infringement news...