It may not be you it seems. Or so says the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act which received royal assent last week. You probably thought, and until last week the law would have agreed with you, that as the creator of your work you owned it, and that others could not use of profit from the work without permission. The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform act includes changes to UK copyright law that allows anyone to use ‘orphan works’ for commercial or non-commercial use, including sub-licensing them.
Category archives: Tech
How do the PC vendors screw up Windows 8 so badly?!
Seriously, it must time time and effort to do such a crappy job building the images the big OEM’s are putting on Windows 8 laptops at the moment. I’ve looked at four now, from Lenovo, Sony and Dell and all have been awful until you go in an undo some of the ridiculous things they install and configure.
Annual releases for Windows and Lync, what’s next?
This week after the next version of Windows, codenamed Windows Blue, leaked onto the Internet. With Lync also getting an annual upgrade Microsoft’s what’s behind MS’s new fondness for annual release cycles.
Google Keep, Google Reader and Trusting the Cloud
Google keep looks great, but with google reader falling to a sping clean can cloud apps be trusted with your data?
Enabling two-finger Right-click in Windows
How to enable right-click with two fingers using a Synaptics touchpad or clickpad in windows 7 or windows 8