Creative commons is hiring a new general counsel. [Link].

[BILETA 2007 Accepted Papers] Wow. This year’s BILETA is shaping up to be really interesting. Below are some of the presentations that I have already staked out in my schedule: Joel D’Silva – Nanotechnology: Development, Risk and Regulation (besides an interest in emerging tech and the law, I’ve had a number of engineering friends in [...]

As mentioned in my earlier post, EFF-Austin is meeting on the 15th at Cafe Caffeine in Austin. Full details, for those interested, below the fold.

This post over at House of Commons caught my eye because of its use of an image that appears to be something one would expect to be in the public domain, but is licensed under a Creative Commons licence.  It is just the type of image that one can find in the US Library of [...]

Via Boing Boing, the WiFi Liberator is: …an open-source toolkit for a laptop computer that enables its user to “liberate” pay-per-use wireless networks and create a free, open node that anyone can connect to for Internet access. [Link]. The idea is that one person pays for use, and then shares that connection with others. This [...]

The theme of the night’s discussion among leading academics, lawyers, and representatives ranging from the Federation Against Copyright Theft to Scotland’s small business interests was that the Gowers report was plagued by a lack of supporting evidence and little thinking about the practical side of the reforms that it espoused. The meeting, entitled ‘The Gowers [...]

State Senator Hinojsa has filed SB 446, available here, which would amend the Texas Government Code by adding a requirement that state use open document formats. I think that this is an excellent move –  a similar requirement was added at my request to the Open Government Online amendment for the City of Austin (which [...]