Globalisation
Costa Ricans vote YES to CAFTA
Costa Rica held a referendum on Sunday October 7th to decide whether or not it would approve the Dominican Republic and Central America Free Trade Agreement with the United States, and the ayes have the day with 51.6% against 48.4% Read more
Copyright
Company sued in Scotland for listening to radio
(via BBC) Tyre and brake fitters Kwik-Fit have been sued in Edinburgh by the UK’s Performing Rights Society. The subject of the action is the fact that according to the plaintiffs, Kwik-Fit employers have been playing their radios loudly, where Read more
Open content
Open database licence
Jordan Hatcher has published a draft of the Open Database Licence, which is an agreement intended to allow users to “freely share, modify, and use” databases while maintaining the same freedoms for others. I’ve gone through the draft, and it Read more
Cases
RIAA wins download case
Jammie Thomas, the Minnesota woman on trial for making music available in the Kazaa network, has lost her jury case and will have to pay the plaintiffs $220,000 USD (that’s $248,000 AUS). The Duluth jury held her liable for $9,250 Read more
Copyright
Virgin v Thomas continues
The trial of Jammie Thomas in Minnesota continues. Some very interesting revelations so far, including an RIAA spokesman claiming that making even one copy of a song is “stealing”, and the prosecution proving conclusively that the KaZaa login subject of Read more
Announcements
VII World Congress of Computer Law
Erick Iriarte has sent this message for distribution: VII World Congress of Computer Law / VII Congreso Mundial de Derecho InformaticoWhen: 3-7 December 2007Where: San Juan, Puerto RicoSteering Committee: University of Puerto Rico / Puerto Rico Bar Association / Inter Read more
Litigation
Mother v RIAA
(via Wired) Jammie Thomas, a 30-something mother from Minnesota accused by the RIAA of sharing 1,702 audio files, will go to court to defend her innocence this week. Welcome to Virgin v Thomas, the first jury trial in the RIAA’s Read more
SCRIPT-ed
SCRIPT-ed September 2007
The September issue of SCRIPTed, the online journal of Law and Technology, is now live. This issue is packed with quality (says the person who wrote the editorial, so I’m clearly biased). In this issue: Editorial Back to the Future: Read more
Creative Commons
Creative Commons sued for Virgin Campaign
Some readers may remember my previous comments about a dubious advertising campaign from Virgin Mobile Australia. Some of the pictures were clearly bordering on the defamatory, so it should come as no surprise that Virgin has been sued by one Read more