As mentioned in earlier posts, Yours Truly presented at a conference in Rwanda a couple of weeks ago. The conference was attended by African IP officials, and dealt mostly with software protection topics such as software patents, open source software Read more
It is perhaps an indication of how times have changed that the content industries have won some decisive legal battles in court against Limewire, isoHunt and the PirateBay, yet these have not prompted the same level of scrutiny that previous Read more
I do not have much to talk about this morning, but I have been unhealthily amused by the game Rock, paper, scissors, lizard, Spock. Here is Sheldon explaining the game to us: Scissors cuts Paper. Paper covers Rock. Rock crushes Read more
As part of the its Development Agenda, the World Intellectual Property Organisation has published a report entitled “Scoping Study on Copyright and Related Rights and the Public Domain” by the always wonderful Professor Séverine Dussollier. In the interest of full Read more
(via Ernesto Priego) Just finished reading a delightful post by Mary Churchill entitled “Why Do Academics Write?” Highly recommended if you are an academic or interested in academia generally. While the article tells the story of academic writing from an Read more
And here it is, this year’s GikII programme in its full glory: Final programme (uncertainty principle permitting) Sunday 27 June 18.00-onwards. Social event (because geeks have social lives too) UK premiere of Kembrew Mcleod’s “Copyright Criminals” Ethanol and a chance Read more
This is a great video about what makes people perform better and be more creative: One of the questions asked over and over again about open business models is precisely what makes open source work. How can Wikipedia exist? Who Read more
When talking about the spread of information and communication technologies, I often hear well-intentioned objections to the generalised use and inception of these technologies. “The newspaper will soon be dead”; “everyone will be using iPhones/iPads/insert-shiny-gadget”; “everyone should have broadband”. These Read more
Apologies for the lack of updates, if you follow me on Twitter you will know that I have been on the road since last week, first in Alicante and now in Rwanda. I have picked up several interesting blog topics, Read more
We’ve received this from Juan Carlos De Martin: The NEXA Center for Internet & Society (http://nexa.polito.it) at the Politecnico di Torino and the Berkman Center for Internet & Society (http://cyber.law.harvard.edu) at Harvard University are proud to announce that registration for Read more