The latest issue of SCRIPTed, A Journal of Law, Technology & Society, is now online. Plenty of good things on this issue, including an excellent article on the Chilean Free Trade Agreement, several on Internet regulation, and an interesting take on patent claims. (2012) 9:2 SCRIPTed Issue DOI: 10.2966/scrip.090112 Read more…
Keeping local information is a thing of the past. Nowadays everything is in the cloud, haven’t you heard? From Dropbox to Google Drive we keep our files stored in some nameless data farm in Iowa, and any Apple user will have lots of information stored in the iCloud. While these Read more…
Two cases in the news have been prompting questions about the way in which we interact with social media, and how it affects everyday life. In the UK, a teenager has been issued with a harassment order after he made a decidedly offensive tweet to British diver Tom Daley when Read more…
Habitual readers may have noticed that I am not a fan of software patents. From time to time one reads attempts to defend them in comments, blog posts, and with less frequency in scholarly articles, but as time goes by more evidence comes to light to demonstrate that they Read more…
Whenever the music industry complains about decreasing music sales, the usual culprit is piracy. The jury is still out with regards to the effect of piracy on music, but let us concede for the sake of argument that it has had some negative effect on sales. Whatever the figures are, Read more…
The Costa Rican legislature has just passed Law 9048, which includes reforms to the country’s Criminal Code to create new cybercrime offences. Some of these bring the country in line with anti-hacking provisions present in international standards like the Convention on Cybercrime, such as rules against illegal access and interception Read more…
If you took a random sample from news items dating from the first half of the year, you would be forgiven for thinking that piracy was dead, and copyright maximalism was the victor in the Copyright wars. Megaupload had been shut down, its data shredded and scattered to the winds, Read more…
Original* Preámbulo Creemos que un Internet libre y abierto puede crear un mundo mejor. Para mantener el Internet libre y abierto, hacemos un llamado a las comunidades, las industrias y los países a reconocer estos principios. Creemos que ayudarán a lograr más creatividad, más innovación y sociedades más abiertas. Nos Read more…
The United Nations Human Rights Council adopted a resolution last week on the “promotion, protection and enjoyment of human rights on the Internet” (A/HRC/20/L.13 ). This is a ground-breaking document in the history of digital rights because for the first time we have an international declaration that equates offline and Read more…
Call for Papers: 7th Gikii Workshop, 17-18 September 2012 UEA London 102 Middlesex Street London E1 7EZ UK It’s harder than it used to be to write a Call for Papers for GikII, the so-cool-it-hurts blue skies workshop for papers exploring the interstices between law, technology and popular culture. Back Read more…