AUdIoCoUrSeS
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Apple Computer may be forced to pay royalties to Microsoft for every iPod it sells after it emerged that Bill Gates's software giant beat Steve Jobs' firm in the race to file a crucial patent on technology used in the popular portable music players. The total bill could run into hundreds of millions of dollars.
Although Apple introduced the iPod in November 2001, it did not file a provisional patent application until July 2002, and a full application was filed only in October that year.
http://news.independent.co.uk/business/news/article305638.ece
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Mon Aug 15, 2005 5:04 am |
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Calipso
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That is seriously unbelievable. The little shit bill gates, just never has enough money.. |
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Mon Aug 15, 2005 5:04 pm |
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Hehe true.. business is business though.. besides, Steve Jobs is no saint either with his over protected concepts.
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hobbesblb
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I think that just goes to show all of us that copyrights to our materials should be filed. In this case it may seem like Microsoft is greedy, but if apple had filed first (come on, they have how many lawyers on their staff?) then all of the other media players would be shelling out to them.
But with intellectual property, like music, websites, and anything we personally think up, someone else can claim it as their own as well, and we would be in a sore spot if we can't prove our copyright ownership in a tangible way.
For the US, here is a link to the library of congress copy right office www.copyright.gov
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