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After the numerous mistakes and spoiled ballots (140,000 of them) that happened this spring in the Scottish elections, Scottish council umbrella group Cosla has called to separate out the local council elections from the elections for Scottish Parliament.
[Via the BBC]
The Open Rights Group observed and reported on the elections and concluded that they could not […]

These are my links for 14th August 2007 through 25th August 2007:

State by state listing of cases: Recording Industry vs The People - lists RIAA action by state.
AltLaw -
London police arrest man for ’stealing’ Wi-Fi | InfoWorld - Another arrest for WiFi wardriving.
Info office to monitor blogs | The Register - […]

I’ll be presenting on copyright and tattoos…
Link.

Sorry I’ve been a bit quiet as of late.  I’ve been covering the 2007 Edinburgh International Film Festival for Cinema Minima.

Not much to recap at the moment, but today I’m at the BBC Backstage’s TV unFestival. I presented on Creative Commons and had some lively discussion as a result.
Kevin Anderson has a post that recaps some of the morning’s sessions.

[cross posted at opencontentlawyer.com]
One of the areas that I will be posting on in the next couple of weeks is open data. My latest project is to re-draft an existing open data licence into a format for worldwide use, much in the same vein of Creative Commons.
If you have an interest in open data, please […]

These are my links for 10th August 2007:

Spam Distribution Infrastructure: New Study Finds 94% of Scams Hosted on Individual Web Servers - Spams and scams.
Perfect 10 Targets Microsoft’s Image Search - Moving from Google, the lad’s mag takes on Gates.
Universal sells songs without DRM - Another one drops the DRM/TPM.
IPSC at DePaul […]