Cybercrime
Stealing Wifi
Can people “steal” wifi? A man in Illinois has been fined $250 USD and given a one year suspended sentence for sitting in his car at 2 AM and accessing an open Wifi network belonging to a charity. This poses Read more…
Announcements
March 2006 issue of SCRIPT-ed live
The new issue of SCRIPTed is now online. In this issue: Editorials: – Adebambo Adewopo, “Protection and Administration of Folklore in Nigeria”. – Johanna Gibson, “The Gowers Review of Intellectual Property – A Valuable Affair. Special Feature: – Roger Brownsword, Read more…
Cyber-liberties
The politics of access to knowledge
Different reports are coming from the meeting earlier this week on the polictics of IPRs, organised by the Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue (TACD). You can browse several reports from Patenting Lives, Axel H Horns and IP Watch. The meeting had Read more…
Creative Commons
Measuring CC popularity
Christian Ahlert from Open Business has posted a very useful tool online. This is a web applet that checks the links to a specific licence from Yahoo! and displays the results. Creative Commons Scotland only has 3,074 links to the Read more…
P2P
Downloaders buy more music
A study commissioned by the Canadian Recording Industry Association has been made public, and Michael Geist has found some interesting facts on it. Apparently, those who download the most are those who buy the most music. We already knew this, Read more…
Open science
The Economist on open source
(thanks to Nicolas Jondet for the link) This is a good article in The Economist about open source business models. The article goes through everything open, from source code to biotechnology, interviewing key experts. The article states that: “Perhaps that Read more…
Web 2.0
Vanity Wikipedia
I was looking at the Wikipedia entry for the Open Rights Group, and I was surprised at how many people have entries on Wikipedia. I’m not implying that the people listed do not deserve entries, but reading so many interesting Read more…
e-commerce
A licence or a contract?
I have been involved in an argument on a mailing list with regards to the legal nature of copyleft licences such as the GPL. This is a bit of a pet peeve of mine (and talking to other lawyers, it Read more…
Creative Commons
Update on Dutch CC case
Professor Bernt Hugenholtz has distributed a translation of the Dutch CC case, very useful for those of us who have never been to the Netherlands (unless you count transfers at Schiphol Airport). The relevant text reads: “All four photos that Read more…