The Creative Archive Licence(CAL) is now online. This is an open licence from the BBC, the BFI, the Open University and Channel 4, and it covers a large amount of works owned by those four institutions which are offered for Read more…
(NY Times link, remember to use Bugmenot). IBM is opening up its intellectual property. Yes, this is similar to the much publicised legally binding promise of non-enforcement issued last January, but it goes further, and it provides a serious philosophical Read more…
The internet is all about the content. This seems like a bleeding obvious statement, but it is amazing how little understood this is. Content is difficult to create. Sitting every morning looking for today’s post is in fact a bit Read more…
This is a dreadful article by yet another software patent lawyer in Linux Insider. It praises software patents American style, without shame, just like that, as if the system in the U.S. was not broken! Only a software patent lawyer Read more…
There has now been a result in a WTO dispute between Antigua and Barbuda and the United States regarding restrictions to online gambling. The two Caribbean countries brought the dispute against the United States because they claimed that its restrictions Read more…
I have just returned from sunny Belfast, where this year’s BILETA Conference was held (BILETA is the British and Irish Legal, Education and Technology Association). I must say that this was an excellent conference, very good quality of papers all Read more…
Johnnie Cochran died last week. He may be better known as one of the defense attorneys in the OJ simpson trial, but he has a much larger claim to internet fame: he is the inspiration for the Chewbacca Defense, which Read more…
This is an interesting bit in the BBC technology section, which tells us that the lawsuits against the largest spammer in the world are actually working. Many companies, including Microsoft, have sued Scott Richter, the Spam King, and he is Read more…
Professor Lessig gave a lecture yesterday as part of a panel organised by the AHRB Centre for the Edinburgh Science Festival. Yours Truly had the pleasure of participating in the panel, well, actually I just sat there and gazed at Read more…
Another April’s Fools has come and gone. What is the verdict? Some good jokes out there, some sophisticated ones, some simply surreal. The most widely circulated is Google Gulp, where the search engine goes into the soft drink market. Then Read more…