(via Legal Theory Blog). I have been reading some of the reports by Lawrence Solum from the symposium Bloggership: How Blogs are Transforming Legal Scholarship from Harvard’s Berkman Centre. It seems like this was a very successful event, with an Read more…
How do you promote an open source browser if you have no money for glitzy marketing? Organise a competition and let the fan’s originality do the job. Firefox has awarded fan videos entered into their Flick competition. First prize went Read more…
(Via Carolina Botero) Spanish courts have delivered the third ruling in favour of Creative Commons (more accurately, copyleft licences in general) and against collecting agencies. The Spanish music collecting agency, the SGAE, has just lost another case brought against a Read more…
Christian Ahlert from Open Business has informed us that Yochai Benkler, professor of law at Yale, has given an interview to their website about his new book called The Wealth of Networks, which is online offered through a Creative Commons Read more…
I was not present in the virtual presentation in Second Life by Mia Garlick (sorry, Mia Wombat). It was too early on Saturday morning my time, but it seems like it was a fun event. There is a report at Read more…
The Daily Mail picnic features sexy goats, crooked penguins and terrorist dogs intent on blow things up, all dancing to the catchy tunes of a singing sheep. It only lacks a singing llama. Yes, the internet is the source of Read more…
(The author apologises in advance for the gratuitous use of the word “paradigm”). I have been looking at the use of Creative Commons by businesses for a video-conference that I’ll be involved in this week. One of the most intriguing Read more…
(via Out-Law) The England and Wales High Court has ruled that email addresses are not to be considered signatures (Metha v J Pereira Fernandes SA [2006] EWHC 813 (Ch)). JPF is a Portuguese company that supplies bedding products, and supplied Read more…
(via OUT-Law) The English Court of Appeals has finally ruled in the long running case of the Office of Fair Trading v Lloyds TSB Bank & Others [2006] EWCA Civ 268. The dispute was initially brought by the OFT against Read more…
I am increasingly interested in network science and the possible legal implications of power laws, symmetry-breaking and other network phenomena. One area where the application of scale-free topologies can be experimented and measured is online through the complex mesh of Read more…