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 Read more
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 Read more
Thanks to all who sent in entries. There are three short-listed entries: Lilian Dougal Bruno The winner shall be announced shortly, I’m trying to negotiate a judge.
(via Colin Miller) As part of my growing interest in virtual economies, here is an eye-opening look at the gold of Chinese gold farmers from Julian Dibbell, including some video footage of their virtual sweat shops (you can sort of Read more
The amazing Peer to Patent system is now live. The system is the creation of New York Law School Professor Beth Noveck, and it is an extremely interesting system of involving the online community on the review of patent claims Read more
Here’s my iSummit in pictures (check out the iCommons Flickr stream): Not a bad place to hold a conference Badges? We don’t need no stinkin’ badges!(courtesy CreativeCommoners) So, THAT is how he does it!(courtesy Joi Ito) Snowclones are the new Read more
(photo courtesy of Becky Hogge) One of the coolest activities I managed to do during the summit (besides annoying random people with rants about contract law) was to participate in the Free Radio broadcast. As you can see, it is Read more
A common theme running through the summit has been the question of the nature of the Creative Commons organisation. Is it a movement? And if so, what is its philosophy? Ideology? Is it political? I think that these are important Read more
Venerable (I sort of hate that word, but I don’t know how else to describe him) Harvard Professot Charlie Nesson gave an excellent talk on poker and democracy. I’m sure this will be one of those events which will be Read more
Last night Larry Lessig and Jonathan Zittrain presented what I’m sure will become a legendary session on the future of content and the future of the Commons. Jonathan Zittrain gave a thoroughly enjoyable presentation related to his work on the Read more