Comments on: Hey, Let's Sue the Interface!

By: Ed Janes

Ed Janes — Sun, 18 Dec 2005 20:41:35 +0000

Wow - 2 days of "protest" and Warner Chappell Music actually apologizes. A music company that has done the right thing. I'm shocked and I'm stunned.

http://www.wired.com/news/digiwood/0,1412,69856,00.html

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 17 Dec 2005 18:36:10 +0000

Excellent point SEW. Old media often sees threats where they should be seeing … opportunities … this are the correct words, i think the same like Joe

By: Mike

Mike — Sat, 17 Dec 2005 18:35:05 +0000

nice to know. good informations

By: ariel

ariel — Sat, 17 Dec 2005 07:19:29 +0000

Agree. Opinionless thought i’d pop in here what i understand the latest terms for these applets are…WIDGETS, MODULED and GADGETS… little applets created by opening up enough for both the good and the ugly to innovative.

GADGETS: Microsoft http://www.microsoftgadgets.com
WIDGETS: http://www.konfabulator.com and Mac’s Dashboard
MODULES: Googles’ Modules for both the homepage and desktop sidebar… http://www.google.com/apis/homepage/

By: Joe Hunkins

Joe Hunkins — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 20:29:42 +0000

Excellent point SEW. Old media often sees threats where they should be seeing … opportunities.

By: Search Engines Web

Search Engines Web — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 19:39:05 +0000

INSTEAD OF STIFlING CREATIVITY,
The practical solution would have been to PARTNER with the developer/technology, perhaps music lovers would NOT mind paying an extra few cents to use this technology with their ITUNES download,... knowing that they are in fact helping the Songwriters and Publishers.

By: Jose I. Icaza

Jose I. Icaza — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 19:25:41 +0000

Warner Chappel Music apologizes to Ritter:

http://www.billboard.biz/bb/biz/newsroom/digital/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1001699607

By: Ed Janes

Ed Janes — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 19:23:26 +0000

If anyone was suing anyone, I would have figured it would be Apple going after the widget-makers for cracking iTunes.

BTW, you can get widgets for Windows too... Konfabulator comes to mind. It has widgets that can be used on any OS. I've personally used another iTunes interface to download album names and covers from Amazon the mp3s (DRM-free, of course) on my hard drive. One would have thought this would have been even higher on the list for music companies to sue.

By: Eric Strobes

Eric Strobes — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 18:22:52 +0000

So someone can sue a widget maker for facilitating a crime but you can’t sue a gun manufacturer? You really do have to love the American legal system.