Technollama has spent some time in London at the Queen Mary Intellectual Property Research Institute for the launch of the Patenting Lives project. This is pretty good project, we will keep an eye on it (and link to it often).
The new issue of SCRIPTed is now online. This issue covers a good range of issues, including an analysis of the German case that has declared the validity of the GPL.
The website British and Irish Legal Information Institute (BAILII) is now five years old. Technollama has been away down in London to attend the celebrations, which were attended by a good number of very important people. Congratulations to BAILII, and we look forward to many more anniversaries.
Last week, Cory Doctorow gave a lecture at the University of Edinburgh entitled “Web 2.0″: how the P2P copyright crackdown, Digital Rights Management systems, anti-circumvention laws and big media are slowly taking the Web away from public control and out of the hands of the average citizen“. Unfortunately, the IT Read more…