(Via Carolina Botero) Spanish courts have delivered the third ruling in favour of Creative Commons (more accurately, copyleft licences in general) and against collecting agencies. The Spanish music collecting agency, the SGAE, has just lost another case brought against a bar for not paying licence fees. The previous cases can Read more…
Christian Ahlert from Open Business has informed us that Yochai Benkler, professor of law at Yale, has given an interview to their website about his new book called The Wealth of Networks, which is online offered through a Creative Commons licence. Interestingly, the online version of the book online is Read more…
I was not present in the virtual presentation in Second Life by Mia Garlick (sorry, Mia Wombat). It was too early on Saturday morning my time, but it seems like it was a fun event. There is a report at the Creative Commons blog and another one here (including pictures Read more…
The Daily Mail picnic features sexy goats, crooked penguins and terrorist dogs intent on blow things up, all dancing to the catchy tunes of a singing sheep. It only lacks a singing llama. Yes, the internet is the source of all evil known today, full of paedophiles, Nigerian generals and Read more…
(The author apologises in advance for the gratuitous use of the word “paradigm”). I have been looking at the use of Creative Commons by businesses for a video-conference that I’ll be involved in this week. One of the most intriguing potential uses of CC is in to revolutionise the publishing Read more…
(via Out-Law) The England and Wales High Court has ruled that email addresses are not to be considered signatures (Metha v J Pereira Fernandes SA [2006] EWHC 813 (Ch)). JPF is a Portuguese company that supplies bedding products, and supplied then to a British company called Bedcare Ltd. Bedcare failed Read more…
(via OUT-Law) The English Court of Appeals has finally ruled in the long running case of the Office of Fair Trading v Lloyds TSB Bank & Others [2006] EWCA Civ 268. The dispute was initially brought by the OFT against several credit card comanies to make sure that they fulfilled Read more…
I am increasingly interested in network science and the possible legal implications of power laws, symmetry-breaking and other network phenomena. One area where the application of scale-free topologies can be experimented and measured is online through the complex mesh of blogs. There have now been several studies on the replication Read more…
Money Magazine has declared that the 2nd best job in the United States is that of univeristy professor. Reasonably well paid, flexible hours, casual wear and low stress levels make this an appealing carreer choice. Ok, where did I leave my passport? UPDATE: The full list is: 1. Software Engineer2. Read more…
… but were afraid to ask. I’ve just discovered Rootkit.com, as site offering information and, controversially, source code to build your own rootkit. For those who do not know, a rootkit is software that is installed in a computer without the knowledge of the user, running hidden processes that vary Read more…