The meeting has started, we are gathered in the impressively posh Marriot Hotel in Ipanema. I measure poshness by how many times I politely get asked what I’m doing (three times before getting to the venue). I guess that it’s Read more
I will be away to Rio de Janeiro to attend the second Creative Commons summit, or more accurately, the iCommons summit, as it is actually an international gathering to discuss the Creative Commons movement, and what a gathering it promises Read more
I am becoming rather ambivalent about moral rights, which goes against my Civil Law upbringing. I believe that moral right of attribution is a good thing, but that the moral right of integrity can be difficult to apply, and when Read more
In a week were we have seen the two sides of Bill Gates exposed by the press ad nauseam, it is refreshing to see Microsoft do some of the stupid things why we love them for. The Beta version of Read more
The June issue of SCRIPTed, the Journal of Law and Technology, is now online. In this issue: Editorial: – Open Letter to the Gowers Review of Intellectual Property. AHRC Research Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law and Read more
The British Phonographic Industry (BPI) gave us a nice gift last week to celebrate the International Day of the Beast (6/6/6) by announcing that we could rip music into our iPods. Yes, the widely popular practice of making copies of Read more
Florian Müller, the founder of the NoSoftwarePatents.com campaign, has published his long-awaited testimonial of his role in the amazing story of the software patent war in Europe. The book is entitled “No Lobbyists As Such – The War over Software Read more
I must admit that I have not been following the Net Neutrality campaign, mostly because I felt that it seemed like an American phenomenon, and also because I cannot explain it any better than a ninja. The Communications Opportunity, Promotion Read more
Pirate Bay, the Swedish-based bittorrent search engine, is back online after the raid this week to their servers, where Swedish police confiscated some index files. Pirate Bay is a tricky one for authorities because there are no copies of any Read more
Some interesting papers from the 2nd day: – Institutional Entrepreneurs and the Bricolage of Intellectual Property DiscoursesAnn Westenholz – Open Source and e-JusticeCuno Tarfusser Unfortunately the papers are not available online, which is rather strange from an “open” conference. Why Read more