Something cool coming out of the conference, there is no longer a show of hands to measure the popularity of an ideal or a proposal. Now proposals are put through “hummocracy”, the speaker asks the audience to hum if they agree to something. Professor Charles Nesson is giving an inspired Read more
The CC-UK list has resurrected with some lively debate. If you are interested in following some of the arguments, visit the archive here.
I have attended another meeting of the Patenting Lives project, some interesting discussion took place (will be writing about some of it later on). During the meeting we discussed the Patenting Lives Conference. Here is the call for papers: The Conference of the Patenting Lives Project will be held in Read more
Colleagues Charlotte Waelde and Lilian Edwards were the keynote speakers at WIPO’s Seminar on Copyright and Internet Intermediaries. The preliminary reports from the seminar are quite interesting. For example, EDRI-Gram has a comprehensive review of the proceedings (not online yet at the time of writing this), but it has a Read more
I have just returned from sunny Belfast, where this year’s BILETA Conference was held (BILETA is the British and Irish Legal, Education and Technology Association). I must say that this was an excellent conference, very good quality of papers all around, with enough discussion in most of the sessions. I Read more
Professor Lessig gave a lecture yesterday as part of a panel organised by the AHRB Centre for the Edinburgh Science Festival. Yours Truly had the pleasure of participating in the panel, well, actually I just sat there and gazed at the brilliant, entertaining and slick presentation. Lessig has created his Read more
Last week, Cory Doctorow gave a lecture at the University of Edinburgh entitled “Web 2.0″: how the P2P copyright crackdown, Digital Rights Management systems, anti-circumvention laws and big media are slowly taking the Web away from public control and out of the hands of the average citizen“. Unfortunately, the IT Read more