Sega and the International Olympic Committee (IOC) have announced a new multi-year licensing deal. Read more| GamesIndustry.biz Latest Articles Feed
Starting in 2026, Canadians in certified professions, such as engineers and architects, can begin working in Ontario within 10 days, once credentials and requirements are confirmed by the appropriate regulator, the province announced on Labour Day. Previously, workers could be forced to wait anywhere from several months to half a year before being registered and […] The post Ontario signs labour mobility agreement, fast tracks registration for regulated professions appeared first on Environ...| Environmental Science & Engineering Magazine
In today’s competitive innovation economy, optimizing intellectual property and intangible asset (IP) licenses is crucial for maximizing value and ensuring sustainable growth for businesses of all shapes and sizes. When done strategically and properly, licensing can be a powerful tool for companies to unlock and optimize the value of their IP assets through collaborative innovation […]| Ocean Tomo
Rock Band 4 is to be delisted on October 5, 2025, following the expiration of its 10-year-old song licenses. Read more| GamesIndustry.biz Latest Articles Feed
A couple of months ago, I would have bet on a “quiet” market like the one we had in the teeth of the Great Recession. Good thing I kept my money in my pocket.| Home Textiles Today
Huỳnh Kha wrote this article in Vietnamese and published it in Luật Khoa Magazine on Feb. 21, 2025. Đàm Vĩnh Hằng translated it into English for The Vietnamese Magazine. Despite no official announcements from authorities, driver licensing centers across Việt Nam have been overwhelmed in recent months, with thousands of| The Vietnamese Magazine
Academic software has grown exponentially. Software Heritage Archive data shows where it's being created, what languages are used, and the crisis in licensing. The post From lab to lecture hall: The rise of software in academia appeared first on Software Heritage.| Software Heritage
Natural England welcomes the Government’s commitment to reform the planning system in such a way that it delivers sustainable development while unlocking new and more joined-up opportunities for nature’s recovery. Bradley Tooze, Strategy Director at Natural England, outlines Natural England’s …| Natural England
Oracle licenses cost money. It can be a lot of money, too. So much so that companies are sometimes reluctant to invest in expert consulting services to help maintain licensing compliance simply because they have already spent enough on the software itself. But sometimes a company needs to spend money in order to save it. This is especially true when it comes to Oracle audit defense and other Oracle license management services. As a business owner or executive, you know […] The post Oracle L...| Miro Consulting
Oracle’s new and well-published fee structure for Java is now in full force. It represents the fourth fee structure change in four years. Under the new schedule, companies using Java could pay 2-5 times more to continue using it. This begs a particularly important question: is the new fee structure pricing companies out? A January piece from Forbes Council’s Member Scott Sellers suggests that this is a very real possibility. Sellers notes that 98% of all businesses use Java for […] The ...| Miro Consulting
An IBM audit is inevitable for any organization that uses the company’s software. IBM audits customers every three to four years like clockwork. Here’s the thing: being found out of compliance could get very expensive rather quickly. It pays to be proactive about internal IBM audit defense and license management to guarantee your company is fully in compliance when that next audit comes. Every IBM audit begins with a letter “invoking IBM’s right to audit, which is detailed in the […...| Miro Consulting
Managing software licenses in a business setting can be a bit challenging. Some software packages are more complicated than others. Take Salesforce. It has some of the most complex licensing in business. For that reason alone, our Salesforce license management services could prove invaluable to your company. Salesforce is near the top in terms of the sheer number of licenses available to customers. As you know, a license allows your organization to legally use a software product for business ...| Miro Consulting
On January 23, 2023, Oracle quietly announced their new licensing metric for Java, the Employee for Java SE Universal Subscription metric. Since then, Oracle has done two (2) things; possibly three (3): Oracle no longer offers the older metrics of Processor (servers, with the core-factor applied) and Named User Plus (workstations). Even if you had originally licensed the older metrics (beginning in April 2019 and ending just prior to the adoption of the new metric), once that term ran its [...| Miro Consulting
Like most others in the software development business, Microsoft does not sell its products. Rather, it licenses them. Ensuring that customers maintain compliance with licensing agreements is the motivation behind conducting regular audits. Rest assured that a Microsoft license audit is not something to take lightly. Microsoft audits are par for the course at Miro Consulting. Given that Microsoft is the most common software brand utilized by organizations worldwide, we make it our business to...| Miro Consulting
Microsoft has done an abrupt about face by making Copilot, its generative AI tool, available to just about everyone who uses Microsoft 365. However, Copilot is not free. Anyone wishing to access it in Microsoft 365 – whether for professional or personal use – must pay for a license. Here is the question: is licensing Copilot worth the cost? As with all Microsoft products, Copilot is subject to compliance verification. A typical Microsoft license audit will account for every use […] The ...| Miro Consulting
It’s official! Oracle has extended Solaris 11.4 support until 2037. In the latest update of their Oracle Lifetime Support Policy Oracle and Sun System Software and Operating Systems, dated January 23, 2024, there was an update. Release GA Date Premier Support Ends Extended Support Ends Sustaining Support Ends Solaris 8 Feb 2000 Mar 2009 Mar 2012 Indefinite Trusted Solaris 8.x Sep 2002 Mar 2012 Not Available Indefinite Solaris 9 Mar 2002 Oct 2011 Oct 2014 Indefinite Solaris Legacy Containers...| Miro Consulting
Windows Server 2025 will be generally available “in late 2024”. This release has the same ten (10) year support cycle as previous Windows Server releases.| Miro Consulting | Miro is a leading global provider of software asset managem...
The Fourth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled in favor of Maryland’s social equity licensing rules, affirming the denial of a preliminary injunction against a series of licensing lotteries that took place last year. The circuit court declined to rule on the plaintiff’s claims that the U.S. Constitution’s dormant commerce clause applies to cannabis, avoiding a […] The post 4th Circuit Upholds Maryland’s Social Equity Program appeared first on CRB Monitor News.| CRB Monitor News
The Creative Commons initiative has been incredibly transformative for how people make things, and has been a huge boon to content creators the world around.| busybee: General Articles
Fizzy first movers What do Barbie, Spongebob, Minions, the Lakers, and Minecraft have in common? They’ve all teamed up with fizzy, fruit-forward prebiotic sodas - and not just for the aesthetics. Two once-niche beverage brands are now dominating a billion-dollar category, thanks to smart timing and even smarter partnerships. In this article, Hollywood Branded explores how Poppi and Olipop took over the prebiotic soda market with first-mover advantage and brand partnerships.| Hollywood Branded Insider
A New Cultural Phenomenon The collectible world has seen many crazes, but few have captured a moment like Pop Mart. The global explosion of Pop Mart didn’t come from a typical corporate ad campaign, it came from a grinning little monster named Labubu. With its oddly charming design and The Monsters series behind it, Labubu became more than a collectible, it became a cultural phenomenon. What followed wasn’t just success; it was the rise of a new kind of licensing empire. Through key col...| Hollywood Branded Insider
The wave of state enforcement actions against cannabis testing labs hit Michigan this week with the Cannabis Regulatory Agency ordering the shutdown of Viridis Laboratories.| CRB Monitor News
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22 Aug 25 The Mayor of Salford has praised tough housing enforcement after rogue landlords were handed £2.2 million in fines. According to the Manchester Evening News, the penalties were issued as part of a major enforcement crackdown targeting poor standards in the private rented sector. The news comes after Greater Manchester Mayor Andy Burnham launched […]| Landlord Licensing & Defence
31 Jul 25 Some councils have such poor enforcement of rules on private rentals that just one officer has to monitor 25,000 properties. That’s the claim from think tank the New Economics Foundation, which says that by contrast the better-resourced councils have one officer overseeing just 250 properties. The NEF says the lack of staff […]| Landlord Licensing & Defence
The Second Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the dormant commerce clause of the U.S. Constitution applies to cannabis, despite the plant's federally illegal status.| CRB Monitor News
Microsoft Defender for Office 365 (MDO) requires shared mailboxes to be licensed but doesn't extend the same requirement to Microsoft 365 Groups. Given that Microsoft 365 Groups have group mailboxes and can function very much like shared mailboxes, the difference in licensing is remarkable. Why does this happen? It could be due to internal Microsoft politics, omissions, or just a preference for Groups. Who knows?| Office 365 for IT Pros
The night of Aug. 12, approximately 19,000 cannabis product samples tested by Greenleaf Labs had their testing status changed from passed to failed.| CRB Monitor News
New York’s Cannabis Control Board approved a new rule that would allow legacy growers who launched the adult-use market to convert to mixed-light or indoor grows after being previously restricted to outdoors.| CRB Monitor News
After being asked whether licenses are needed to include shared mailboxes in Microsoft 365 retention policies, I investigated and found that licenses are not. This led to a consideration of the steps needed to create a special retention policy for shared mailboxes (with PowerShell, naturally) and how to avoid retention setting collisions with other policies. All explained in detail here.| Office 365 for IT Pros
Herbal Alternatives II appears to be no more, after its owner pleaded guilty to tax evasion and transferred their license to another entity before fending off a cease-and-desist order.| CRB Monitor News
Regulators in Missouri stripped C&C Manufacturing of its cannabis manufacturer’s license on July 17, following a massive product recall last summer.| CRB Monitor News
Colorado’s Marijuana Enforcement Division is warning licensed businesses to not work with four individuals who had their licenses revoked.| CRB Monitor News
Kentucky’s first licensed medical cannabis cultivator is open for business, despite continued pushback over how the state conducted its licensing lotteries last fall.| CRB Monitor News
Today is an exciting day for reproducibility in computational sciences. Continuous analysis awakens with its publication in Nature Biotechnology. Continuous analysis is a method for automatically re-executing a study whenever its source code is updated. Any changes resulting from the update are tracked and visible. Once properly configured, continuous analysis makes a computational study fully reproducible at every state throughout its history. It works by combining two technologies. First, ...| Satoshi Village
Jordan Anaya of Omnes Res — creator of the PrePubMed search engine for biomedical preprints — recently comparedbioRxiv to PeerJ Preprints. We agree that PeerJ offers the better technology and user experience. However, bioRxiv has greater adoption in the biodata sciences. In fact, since my last blog post on preprints at the beginning of 2016, bioRxiv has grown by 149% from 2,785 to 6,933 preprints. The growth has been fueled largely by the efforts …| Satoshi Village
Verge3D 4.10 for Maya introduces support for transparency in Surface Shader, new demo, macOS installer, and unique object ids. The post Verge3D 4.10 for Maya and Ultimate appeared first on Soft8Soft.| Soft8Soft
Verge3D 4.10 for 3ds Max brings 360° panoramas, new demo apps, puzzle to reuse animation, unique object ids, and the CSS 3D renderer. The post Verge3D 4.10 for 3ds Max Released appeared first on Soft8Soft.| Soft8Soft
Verge3D 4.10 for Blender brings Factory Tour demo, macOS installer, puzzle to reuse animation, unique object ids, and Blender 4.5 support.| Soft8Soft
The first quarter of 2025 marked a period of stabilization in the U.S. cannabis licensing market, following years of contraction and volatility.| CRB Monitor News
In May 2025, Connecticut’s legislature passed landmark legislation to address restrictive ebook licensing practices that limit libraries’ ability to serve the public. It aims to ensure ebook licens…| Authors Alliance
Minnesota selected 249 prospective adult-use cannabis license winners during its first license lottery on June 5.| CRB Monitor News
The Office of Cannabis Management (OCM) said it will likely have to limit possible approvals for applicants who have already been waiting about a year-and-a-half for review.| CRB Monitor News
An explanation for the new release of Java, version 17 and Oracle’s new No-Fee Terms and Conditions license for these new Java versions.| House of Brick
A Montgomery County judge officially ended the Alabama’s third attempt to issue licenses and launch the state’s medical cannabis market.| CRB Monitor News
CLion, a JetBrains IDE, is now free for non-commercial use! Learn more in the blog post.| The JetBrains Blog
Missouri has once again eliminated a portion of the social equity microbusiness licenses it selected during last summer’s lottery due to ownership concerns.| CRB Monitor News
Rhode Island could potentially be less than a month away from finally accepting applications for 24 cannabis retail licenses.| CRB Monitor News
Aspiring cannabis operators in Delaware wait on the state’s Senate to pass a bill that could correct an impasse with the FBI over background checks.| CRB Monitor News
Technically, medical use of cannabis is currently legal in the state of Nebraska. Under Measure 437, an adult can obtain a written recommendation from a doctor.| CRB Monitor News
Preamble: this is an intentionally incendiary post, you could even define it as trolling. I have been thinking…| Flameeyes's Weblog
At the Monki Gras conference in London last week, Madelyn Olson, who created the Valkey project which forked […]| DEVCLASS
Microbusinesses could be king in Minnesota, as over 1,000 applications were submitted for the uncapped license type.| CRB Monitor News
New York’s Cannabis Control Board unanimously voted to grant provisional license holders six more months to secure property.| CRB Monitor News
Massachusetts cannabis regulators extended the period in which social equity candidates can exclusively hold delivery and courier licenses.| CRB Monitor News
Alabama may finally move forward with cannabis business licensing after an appellate court lifted a year-long restraining order.| CRB Monitor News
With less than a month before the target April 1 adult-use market launch, lottery winners are still waiting for their licenses.| CRB Monitor News
A consultant may decide who gets licenses under a bill that aims to move Alabama’s languishing medical cannabis program out of the courts.| CRB Monitor News
Empowering financial institutions and capital providers to understand, identify and manage cannabis-related risk and opportunity.| CRB Monitor News
Empowering financial institutions and capital providers to understand, identify and manage cannabis-related risk and opportunity.| CRB Monitor News
Empowering financial institutions and capital providers to understand, identify and manage cannabis-related risk and opportunity.| CRB Monitor News
Empowering financial institutions and capital providers to understand, identify and manage cannabis-related risk and opportunity.| CRB Monitor News
Empowering financial institutions and capital providers to understand, identify and manage cannabis-related risk and opportunity.| CRB Monitor News
Empowering financial institutions and capital providers to understand, identify and manage cannabis-related risk and opportunity.| CRB Monitor News
Empowering financial institutions and capital providers to understand, identify and manage cannabis-related risk and opportunity.| CRB Monitor News
Empowering financial institutions and capital providers to understand, identify and manage cannabis-related risk and opportunity.| CRB Monitor News
Empowering financial institutions and capital providers to understand, identify and manage cannabis-related risk and opportunity.| CRB Monitor News
Empowering financial institutions and capital providers to understand, identify and manage cannabis-related risk and opportunity.| CRB Monitor News
WebStorm and Rider, JetBrains IDEs, are now free for non-commercial use! Learn more in the blog post.| The JetBrains Blog
An analysis of the inconsistencies in UK museums’ copyright claims over digital reproductions of public domain works Introduction In our online, globally connected era, cultural institutions are vital custodians of history and culture, preserving and making accessible millions of digitised artworks, manuscripts, and objects. Yet in the United Kingdom, a complex and inconsistent approach to… Continue reading Anarchy in the UK| Douglas McCarthy
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Empowering financial institutions and capital providers to understand, identify and manage cannabis-related risk and opportunity.| CRB Monitor News
Empowering financial institutions and capital providers to understand, identify and manage cannabis-related risk and opportunity.| CRB Monitor News
Empowering financial institutions and capital providers to understand, identify and manage cannabis-related risk and opportunity.| CRB Monitor News
Empowering financial institutions and capital providers to understand, identify and manage cannabis-related risk and opportunity.| CRB Monitor News
Empowering financial institutions and capital providers to understand, identify and manage cannabis-related risk and opportunity.| CRB Monitor News
Empowering financial institutions and capital providers to understand, identify and manage cannabis-related risk and opportunity.| CRB Monitor News
Empowering financial institutions and capital providers to understand, identify and manage cannabis-related risk and opportunity.| CRB Monitor News
Empowering financial institutions and capital providers to understand, identify and manage cannabis-related risk and opportunity.| CRB Monitor News
Empowering financial institutions and capital providers to understand, identify and manage cannabis-related risk and opportunity.| CRB Monitor News
Recent enhancements to the Nationwide Multistate Licensing System have introduced a new login process for NMLS users, including state-licensed and| ABA Banking Journal
Today’s topic is a frequently asked question about home inspections in Minnesota. In short, no. Home inspectors do not need to be licensed in Minnesota. Those cheeseheads in Wisconsin require licensing, but we don’t. It has always been this way in Minnesota, and I hope it stays this way. Yep, you heard me right. I’m […]| Structure Tech Home Inspections
Furnishing fabric ‘Alice in Wonderland’ (detail) of roller-printed cotton chintz, designed by C. F. A. Voysey for Morton Sundour Fabric Ltd., Great Britain, ca. 1920. © Victoria and Albert Museum, London.The choices that museums make about copyright and licensing as they digitise their collections have profound implications for public access. In an era where digital technologies are opening up heritage like never before, are some of our cultural institutions becoming gatekeepers? | Douglas McCarthy
Reading Time: 2minutes Last year, Microsoft introduced Microsoft Fabric, a unified SaaS platform that combines under one umbrella the best of Microsoft Power BI, various Azure PaaS offerings, and a host of new experiences related to data science, real-time analytics, and more. Fabric... The post Transition from Power BI Premium P SKU to Fabric F SKU: Impact of Enterprise Agreement (EA) Timeline appeared first on DataVeld.| DataVeld
René-Charles Dassy and His Brother Jean-Baptiste-Claude-Amédé Dassy, 1850, by Hippolyte Jean Flandrin (French, 1809–1864)| Douglas McCarthy
Recently I noticed a new tool called licenserecon written by Peter Blackman, and I helped get licenserecon into Debian. The purpose of licenserecon is to reconcile licenses from debian/copyright against the output from licensecheck, a tool written by Jonas Smedegaard. Continue reading Validating debian/copyright: licenserecon→| Simon Josefsson's blog
A new US non-profit organization called the Ladybird Browser Initiative has been set up to develop the Ladybird […]| DEVCLASS
Oracle has updated its licensing policy for core technology software in "Authorized Cloud Environments" like AWS, Azure, and now GCP. The June 12, 2024 update clarifies GCP's inclusion, aiding customers using Oracle software on this platform. This document offers an alternative licensing method using vCPU metrics, essential for compliance and cost management in cloud environments. Key points include the document's non-contractual nature and the exclusion of the core factor table. Staying info...| House of Brick
Understand 2024’s Oracle Java licensing risks, pricing changes, and mitigation steps. Learn how to protect your organization with expert guidance.| House of Brick
Author’s remix of The Battle of the Pictures, 1745. William Hogarth (1697-1764), Metropolitan Museum of Art, CC0Is it possible for the same digitised public domain work by the same artist to be considered both in and out of copyright by different museums within the same legal jurisdiction? The answer is yes.| Douglas McCarthy
We explore Oracle database licensing considerations and challenges before starting a Oracle database migration to AWS.| House of Brick
Delve into the intricacies of Oracle software licensing in AWS versus on-premises setups. Learn about Oracle's cloud licensing policy and explore a cost-effective alternative to vCPU counting. Compare the licensing implications of shared EC2 instances to dedicated hosts on AWS, uncovering potential savings in Oracle software costs. Benefit from House of Brick's expertise in optimizing architecture and managing Oracle licensing challenges.| House of Brick
House of Brick services will provide a substantial ROI to offset any VMware price increases resulting from the upcoming Broadcom acquisition.| House of Brick
Author’s remix of detail of Four judges in heavy wigs, 1758. Etching by William Hogarth. Source: Wellcome Collection, Public Domain Mark.Late last November at the Court of Appeal in London, Lord Justice Arnold made a significant ruling on copyright and the threshold of originality in UK law, in the case THJ v Sheridan1. Although the case concerned the copyright protection of graphical user interfaces (GUIs), its impact is likely to be felt in other categories. This post examines the implica...| Douglas McCarthy
What does the Rijksmuseum’s landmark Vermeer exhibition tell us about museums, copyright and digital collections today? Vermeer is a major exhibition of the artist’s work at the Rijksmuseum that brings Vermeers from around the world to Amsterdam. A total of twenty eight works, from fourteen institutions, feature in the exhibition. These are helpfully itemised on… Continue reading 28 Vermeers The post 28 Vermeers appeared first on Douglas McCarthy.| Douglas McCarthy
Fresh insight, important updates and new visualisations into the global picture of open access to cultural heritage| Douglas McCarthy
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Element is switching to use the Affero General Public License (AGPLv3) for its future contributions to Synapse and related backend Matrix projects.| Element Blog
Much angst (and discussion ink) is wasted in open source over whether pulling in code from one project with a different licence into another is allowable based on the compatibility of the two licences. I call this problem self defeating because it creates sequestered islands of incompatibly licensed but otherwise fully open source code that can never ever meet in combination. Everyone from the most permissive open source person to the most ardent free software one would agree this is a probl...| James Bottomley's random Pages
Welcome news last week out of Oregon, where the state Supreme Court unanimously “approved in concept” two alternative pathways to lawyer licensure that don’t involve writing the bar exam. The potential new routes to bar admission were proposed in the July 2021 report of the Oregon State Board of Bar Examiners’ Alternatives to the Bar […]| Law21
