GPL v3 released

As I mentioned earlier this week, the GPL version three is finally out. Richard Stallman read a statement yesterday announcing the much-awaited launch, which will undoubtedly be met with both trepidation and caution in software development circles. The text will maintain some of the more controversial features present in the Read more…

GikII 2

In September 2006, panGloss and yours truly organised the first GikII workshop, a tremendously entertaining gathering of like-minded people willing to discuss the interface between geek culture and the law. The resulting workshop provided a look at the virtual personality of avatars; legal aspects of fandom, anime and even hentai; Read more…

New aggregated blog

As part of the synergy generated in the iCommons summit, several Latin American leads suggested the creation of a new aggregated blog bringing together voices talking about open content, CC and other related topics. Thanks to Katitza Rodríguez from CC-Peru we now have a new blog. If you would like Read more…

SCRIPT-ed June 2007

The June 2007 issue of SCRIPTed, The Journal of Law and Technology, is now available. In this issue: Editorial Douglas v Hello! – An OK! result Gillian Black, pp.161-165 Peer-Reviewed Articles Do Asian Nations Take Intellectual Property Rights Seriously? Assafa Endeshaw, p.166-179 The day after the Computer-Implemented Inventions Directive: who Read more…

EMI’s sales soar without DRM

There seems to be nothing better than the content and smug feeling you get by saying “we told you so”. Well, we did, and it seems clear that the technical protection measure experiment may have finally crashed (henceforth DRM). Several sites report what every person even mildly clued-in to the Read more…