What an amazing day yesterday. This is actually related to Technology Law, as some of the solutions to the problems of poverty can be found with technology and with policy solutions, particularly with regards to IP protection of technology and the access to knowledge in developing countries. This is my 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 difficult, and I guess that it would be incredibly easy 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 towards online gambling included in three pieces of legislation (the Read more
The wireless roadshow is a project that creates very cheap wireless solutions that use cans and cheap circuits, and takes it to developing countries, where they can be used to connect to remote communities to the internet at very little cost. This I believe is the way of the future, Read more
(Warning: The link takes you to an article that uses the title “Bridging the digital divide”; how original!) How do you make sure that people in developing countries have access to information technology? By making it cheap. Very cheap. Famous technologist from MIT Media Lab Nicholas Negroponte and other associates Read more
Groklaw smugly reported this earlier. Steve Ballmer asked computer industry to create a computer worth $100 USD. A company called Solar PC has met the challenge with a small computer that runs Linux by using live CDs. BTW, aren’t Live CDs great? I have tested Knoppix and SUSE 9.2 recently. Read more
Attempts by the United States to obtain an agreement to ban cloning have stalled. Many countries oppose an all-out ban and prefer to maintain options open in things like stem cell research. Good news, but I wonder if the Bush administration had it wrong. I think that they just want Read more
This is an interesting article about the tactics that may be used by Microsoft against Free Software. The author seems to be arguing that Free Software infringes several patents held by Microsoft, so that they may try to use the WTO’s enforcement mechanisms to attack countries that use Free Software. Read more
Judge Cameron’s excellent lecture at the University of Edinburgh is now online.
Judge Edwin Cameron delivered the British Academy Inaugural Law Lecturein the Playfair Library Hall on the 19th October. In his lecture”Patents and Public Health: Principles, Politics and Paradox”, JudgeCameron talked about his own experience of living in South Africa as anAIDS sufferer and the difficulties posed by intellectual property protection Read more