[Nettime-bold] Fwd: [media-culture] Biting the hand that feeds IT

[Phil Graham <phil.graham@mailbox.uq.edu.au>]

Perhaps, using the same logic, the OED can begin demanding royalties for 
the general use of conjunctives and [tm] disjunctives.

This has to be a joke, surely.

Phil


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>An interesting gambit. Is it a hoax?
>
>Hugh
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>Biting the hand that feeds IT: British Telecom claims ownership of hyperlinks
>
>By Tim Richardson
>
>"British Telecommunications (BT) claims it owns the patent to hyperlinks
>and wants ISPs in the US to cough up hard cash for the privilege of
>using them.
>
>The monster telco believes a patent filed in 1976--and granted in 1989--
>proves it owns the intellectual property rights to those natty little
>devices that link Web content together.
>
>The patent was lodged following work on text-based online information
>systems Viewdata and Prestel by the General Post Office (GPO) before it
>was split into the Post Office and BT.
>
>BT believes it has a good case and has employed intellectual property
>experts, Scipher PLC, to fight its corner.
>
>Dr Ken Gray, chairman of Scipher, told AFX: "On behalf of BT we are
>attempting to licence (hyperlink technology), and inviting licences to
>be taken out by ISPs in the States."
>
>A spokesman for BT said: "We patented the principle of the hyperlink in
>the mid-70s when people were still wearing kipper ties and flares ..."
>
>See the whole article at The Register 
>http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/1/11450.html
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