There have been plenty of reports and commentary on Viacom v YouTube and Google, the mother of all copyright infringement suits at a whooping $1 billion USD. I didn’t want to comment on it until I got the chance to Read more
The following books are available for review for SCRIPTed. As usual, they’re allocated on a first-come, first-served basis: The Copy/South Research Group, The Copy/South Dossier – Issues in the economics, politics, and ideology of copyright in the global South, April Read more
(via Ashley Theunissen) Are you bored of that annoying anti-piracy ad at the start of your DVD? You know, the one you cannot fast-forward?Check out this alternative editing.
One of the problems of moving house is getting new providers for all kinds of services. Choosing a new broadband provider is a worry, particularly if you were happy with your old ISP. Telewest (now Virgin Media) were pretty good Read more
(Via David Berry) The Conservative Party has turned open source, according to their website: “Shadow Chancellor George Osborne has promised that an incoming Conservative government would create a level playing field for open source software in the UK, in a Read more
One of the most traumatic events for the fledgling field of IT Law was the bursting of the dot-com bubble in 2001, when the artificially inflated electronic commerce market suffered a re-adjustment and a crash to weed out all of Read more
While listening to the excellent podcast Digital Planet from the BBC, I heard a horror story about the problems of regulating cyberspace. While just a couple of days ago I sounded rather optimistic about the prospects of regulating online environments, Read more
The peer-to-patent project is almost ready to go live, reports the Washington Post. For those unfamiliar with this initiative, the peer-to-patent system was proposed by New York Law School Professor Beth Simone Noveck in this paper. If we agree that Read more
I mentioned some time ago that my blog was being copied and used in a splog. As the content was used to farm Google Adwords, I felt that this was done in breach of the terms of the Creative Commons Read more
I’ve received one piece of blog comment spam, and as a matter of policy I deleted it. However, I have removed the links and I have felt compelled to keep it for posterity: “Welcome to our website for you World Read more