In this issue, M-commerce, Copyright exceptions, teaching cyberlaw, and the Open Rights Group do — Geeks at the Gates.
Wen Li (PhD student, Queen Mary) discussed the law, or lack thereof, of big money Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) in China. He’s still at an early stage in his research, but I can see that he [...]

I’ve been discussing legal research and writing with a few different people lately; mostly chatting about the differences between UK law schools. Some require a legal research and writing course, but several do not. The University of Edinburgh, for example, just started offering, at least for the students in modules taught by the AHRC [...]

These are my links for 9th April 2007 through 18th April 2007:

China claims huge success in fight against pirated movies, music - Yahoo! News - More in the fight between China and the US
Patents.com and patents.net domain names for sale - It is up to 350,000 last time I checked!
Open Source Cinema - [...]

I haven’t blogged as much this week — I’ve been hard at work on several projects and simply haven’t had much time. The report on The Impact of Free Trade Agreements on IT-based business has been humming along. It should be released, together with the research appendix, very soon. I have a whole host [...]

In “Unique Idea of Festival Ownership” the Scotsman interviews Pete Irvine, who runs an Edinburgh based events firm, on his new approach to ownership of the events that his company creates:
After years of creating festivals and events through his Edinburgh-based firm, including the city’s famous Hogmanay celebrations, Irvine feels that the time has come for [...]

These are my links for 4th April 2007 through 5th April 2007:

The Mac Lawyer: Guest Post :: Lawyer Calendaring in a Multi Computer Environment - Good review of getting calendars to work
New Software Scans Web for Copyrighted Video - And so the copyright war escalates…
The Domain Name Game: Have Cybersquatting Arbitrators Become Too [...]

So at the Copyright and Research Conference I got into a conversation with Prof. Lilian Edwards (among others) about open access and law journals, especially in relation to how people view open access law publications in terms of the Research Assessment Exercise and in terms of things like getting positions at universities and making a [...]