This affects photographers and just about anyone else who's ever had a voting contest on the internet.
This affects photographers and just about anyone else who's ever had a voting contest on the internet.
Originally shared by Electronic Frontier Foundation
EFF has seen a lot of stupid patents, yet this is one of the
stupidest: a patent that takes the well-known concept of a competition
by popular vote and applies it to the modern context of generic
computer networks. So we're fighting the patent in court, on behalf
of a photo hobbyist who just wants users to vote for the best shot.
https://eff.org/r.9bms
Originally shared by Electronic Frontier Foundation
EFF has seen a lot of stupid patents, yet this is one of the
stupidest: a patent that takes the well-known concept of a competition
by popular vote and applies it to the modern context of generic
computer networks. So we're fighting the patent in court, on behalf
of a photo hobbyist who just wants users to vote for the best shot.
https://eff.org/r.9bms
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