“Happy Birthday” is public domain, former owner Warner/Chapell to pay $14M
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Government formally drops charges against Aaron Swartz
Government formally drops charges against Aaron Swartz US Attorney: "The government states that Mr. Swartz died on January 11, 2013." In the wake of the tragic suicide of Aaron Swartz, the United States Attorney decided to formally drop the pending charges against the 26-year-old information hacktivist. "In support of this dismissal, the government states that Mr. Swartz died on January 11, 2013,"
Craigslist is on board: OpenStreetMap soars to new heights
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Before Netscape: The forgotten Web browsers of the early 1990s
Update: It's Memorial Day weekend here in the US, and the Ars staff has a long weekend accordingly. 2019 marks 30 years since Tim Berners-Lee worked at CERN and came up with a little idea known as the World Wide Web. As all of us do a little Web browsing this weekend, we thought resurfacing this piece outlining those early browsers might make all of us even appreciate Internet Explorer today. This
Shock, awe: British government agrees that copyright has gone too far
Shock, awe: British government agrees that copyright has gone too far In its official response to an independent copyright study, the British … The British government today pledged (PDF) to enact significant changes to copyright law, including orphan works reforms and the introduction of new copyright exceptions. And the tone of the comments was surprising: the government agrees that "copyright cu
Hands-on: Ubuntu One music store will rock in Lucid Lynx
Canonical, the company behind the Ubuntu Linux distribution, has announced the official launch of the Ubuntu One music store. Integrated into the Rhythmbox music player in the upcoming Ubuntu 10.04 release, the store allows users to purchase downloadable songs and albums. The music store is powered by 7digital, an online music distributor that offers over 4 million songs in the MP3 format without
Ubuntu brings advanced Screen features to the masses
GNU Screen is a powerful terminal multiplexer that makes it easy for users to manage multiple sessions at the command line. It provides rudimentary window management capabilities in text-based environments and enables users to detach a session and resume it later. The tool has long held a position of distinction among the most popular terminal utilities for system administrators. Although Screen i
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