In other world news I'm going to copyright my phone number! Unless someone can prove prior art, given the complete idiocy of our patent system I should be able to get away with it. Then under the DMCA, I can sue anyone attempting to use my number by calling it since they would be entering copyrighted material without my permission. Brilliant I tell you... =)
Nope. I thought of that a few weeks ago and spoke to a lawyer who specializes in information technology. I wanted to claim copyright on my e-mail address so I could use DMCA against owners of systems that get infected with klez and forge e-mail with my address in the From: header. Lawyer's response was you can't copyright "directory information". Precedent referred to was phone book entries.
The anonymous donation was to put wireless in all the libraries, NOT all over the campus. The access points were removed from the dorms because CIT and ResLife couldn't come to an agreement over who would pay for them.
The charges are based on IP address, not MAC address. Believe it or not, the plan is to allow internet use from the central IT department's wireless network to go un-billed. This is the wireless lan that covers all the libraries plus a few other locations on campus.
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Nope. I thought of that a few weeks ago and spoke to a lawyer who specializes in information technology. I wanted to claim copyright on my e-mail address so I could use DMCA against owners of systems that get infected with klez and forge e-mail with my address in the From: header. Lawyer's response was you can't copyright "directory information". Precedent referred to was phone book entries.
Nice try, really, but it won't fly.
The anonymous donation was to put wireless in all the libraries, NOT all over the campus. The access points were removed from the dorms because CIT and ResLife couldn't come to an agreement over who would pay for them.
The charges are based on IP address, not MAC address. Believe it or not, the plan is to allow internet use from the central IT department's wireless network to go un-billed. This is the wireless lan that covers all the libraries plus a few other locations on campus.