Becky Hogge from the always excellent Open Rights Group has reminded me that their support ORG party will take place next Wednesday 11 April. Details about the venue, how to get there, times and other questions can be found here. Becky also has reminded me of the most excellent raffle Read more…
(via Michael Geist). A Canadian photographer posted some pictures in Flickr and licensed them under a Creative Commons ShareAlike licence. According to one Mr Spatial Mongrel from Kamloops BC (no real name is given, but you have to love the nick), one of his pictures was used for political propaganda Read more…
The March 2007 issue of SCRIPTed is now live. In this issue: Editorial: The internet and security: do we need a man with a red flag walking in front of every computer? Lilian Edwards. Peer-reviewed Special Issue – Creating Commons: Introduction to the Special Issue, Graham Greenleaf. Finding and Quantifying Read more…
As I mentioned yesterday, the EMI and iTunes DRM deal did happen, and it was not a joke. I have nothing else to add, as it seems like everyone and their mothers have been talking about it. The demise of DRM? The beginning of the end? The rise of iTunes? Read more…
Another good April 1st has gone by, with some beautiful stories. Google sits on top of the April’s Fool list, as usual. This year everybody’s talking about Google’s TiSP, a convenient ISP that comes through your toilet, and whose tag is “Want WiFi around? Just Flush it down!” The service Read more…
(via Burkhard Schäfer) Students in Arizona have sued Turnitin, the makers of plagiarism-detection software. They claim that the company violates their copyright because the papers are kept in a database. Students could get $600,000 USD from the suit if they are successful. I’m having real problem seeing how a student Read more…
(via House of Commons and Groklaw) The third draft of the GPL version 3 is now available for comment. I haven’t had much time to go through it in detail, so I will be making comments later, mostly building on previous praises and criticisms here, here and here. However, one Read more…
Everyone is talking about Kathy Sierra’s blog death threats. I don’t feel like I can comment a lot as I have never before read her blog or heard about her before I read the news coverage, but this seems to have an interesting cyberlaw angle. If Kathy Sierra has been Read more…
Copyfight has a good post about the OKGo phenomenon. OK Go, for those who don’t know, is a band from Chicago that could be largely classed as alternative, but it may well be part of the new geek rock. What makes OK Go unique is that they’re a Web 2.0 Read more…