Through Twitter we have learned a staggering new development in Portugal, which threatens Creative Commons licences and other open content licensing schemes. According to several reports, the Portuguese Socialist Party is announcing that it will push for a reform to its copyright legislation that will make economic rights inalienable and Read more…
He’s making a list And checking it twice; Gonna find out Who’s naughty and nice… Yes, it’s that time of year again, the intellectual Property naughty list has been published. This year has the longest Priority Watch List that I remember with twelve countries: China, Russia, Algeria, Argentina, Canada, Chile, Read more…
Google has just lost a patent infringement suit in Texas (where else?) which could have nefarious consequences for open source development in the United States. A Texas jury has awarded Bedrock Computer Technologies $5 million USD when it found that the search engine giant had infringed one of its software Read more…
Thanks to all who have sent me a link to this wonderful tool. You can now say anything important in llama with the amazing Llama Font. Say it in llama!
It has been a bad week for the supporters of three strikes copyright policies in Europe. Although at some point last year the panorama looked good for them with the enactment of the Digital Economy Act, it seems like recent legal developments will make it considerably harder for a comprehensive Read more…
The new issue of SCRIPTed – A Journal of Law, Technology & Society, is now live. This issue has some really interesting articles about Internet regulation and governance. In this issue: Editorial Cellular Therapies: Regulating A Sector In Turmoil Aidan Courtney, pp.1-7 Reviewed Articles The Path Dependence of European Copyright, Read more…
The use of the loaded question may imply that I believe they should. I shall be frank and admit that this is precisely the intention of this post, but please allow me to explain my reasoning before you dismiss such a ludicrous notion. What inspired me to write this post Read more…
(via Andrea Glorioso) I received an interesting Facebook invitation, and it answered an important question that I have had about my FB timeline. I reproduce the message here: “Have you noticed that you are only seeing updates in your newsfeed from t…he same people lately? Have you also noticed that Read more…
I love April’s Fools, the mischievous nature of some jokes played over the years always manages to bring a small smile to my face. Here are this year’s Top 5: xkcd in 3D. The entire xkcd catalogue converted to 3D! Spotify closes European operations to fund its US incursion. This Read more…
(Via Dixie Hawtin) The 10 Internet Rights and Principles were launched today by the IGF Dynamic Coalition on Internet Rights and Principles at the 2nd expert meeting in Sweden 30-31 March on Human Rights and the Internet, co-organized by the Swedish Ministry for Foreign Affairs and the UN Special Rapporteur Read more…