Announcements
CFP reminder
Just a reminder that the deadline for the Call for Papers for the VI Computer Law World Conference to take place in Edinburgh this September is this Friday! You only have to send a small abstract.
e-commerce
The zombie clause
(via Oren Bracha) Nobody reads what they sign, this seems to be demonstrably true. But this is not only true of click-wrap agreements, it also happens with printed materials. A video store in Austin TX presented their customers with a Read more
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