EFF knocks down bogus Clear Channel patent
Clear Channel has cornered the market on the nation's radio stations,
but it won't be able to extend that domination to digital recordings
for live concerts. The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office has stripped
Clear Channel of a patent it had held on a system for creating digital
recordings for live performances.
The move was announced last week by the Electronic Frontier
Foundation, which staged a campaign to overturn the patent. Clear
Channel claimed the patent gave it a monopoly on all-in-one, digital
post-concert recordings, and the company threatened to sue anyone that
made such recordings, according to EFF.
EFF's investigation of the case turned up a really interesting fact:
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