Tim Berners-Lee takes the stand to keep the Web free
February 9, 2012
Google, Amazon and Adobe are fighting a patent claiming ownership over online video, image rotation and search auto-complete.
The inventor of the World Wide Web, Tim Berners-Lee, testified in a Texas courtroom Tuesday in an attempt to defeat two patents, Wired Threat Level reports.
A patent-licensing company called Eolas and the University of California are saying the patents entitle them to royalty payments from just about anyone running a website with “interactive” features, like rotating pictures or streaming video.
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Comments (2)
by Tomas_James
A Update: The Texas Jury strike down Eolas and the University of California patent claim. Thank god
http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2012/02/interactive-web-patent/?intcid=story_ribbon
by Scott V. Brown
The next thing you know, greed will claim that they own the air we breath and start billing us.
You can just see your iphone notifying you that you haven’t paid your bill and that in ten, nine, eight…your air will be cut off.
Tim is a true world hero for inventing the WWW and for standing up and protecting it and all of our freedom to information.