For those interested: _____ Intellectual Property Staff Attorney EFF is seeking an intellectual property staff attorney for its legal team. Responsibilities will include litigation, public speaking, media outreach, plus legislative and regulatory advocacy, all in connection with a variety of intellectual property and high technology matters. Qualified candidates should have at least four years of [...]

See below: Monday 1 October, 2007 at Bird & Bird, 6 pm. BLACA is pleased to announce that David Carson has agreed to give a talk on the future of US copyright law. Mr. Carson is the Associate Register for Policy and International Affairs at the United States Copyright Office. We have also lined up [...]

Quick note — Beckham’s tattoo artist threatened suit over some ink that he put on Beck, but I don’t believe a suit was filed. This was in the UK in 2005. Full story from the Mirror. Someone mentioned after the conference that a gentleman was asked by Disney to remove some Disney-related ink after visiting [...]

Can copyright extend to the human body? My slides from my presentation last week exploring this question, up on the Gikii 2 website, got boing boinged. So here is a post about some of the issues that come up, including those that came up in the BoingBoing forum. Tattoos and “works for hire” US copyright [...]

My first in a series of in-depth posts about open data is now up at opencontentlawyer.com Thoughts on drafting an open data licence

Lawlink is a new social networking site that limits its members to licensed attorneys. It looks like from the sign up page that this is limited to the United States, but maybe they’ll expand a bit in the future. The “no non-lawyers allowed” policy is enforced through an application procedure where they check you out [...]

The International Herald Tribune has a great article on the dispute before the WTO on gambling between Antigua and Barbuda and the United States. Online gambling case pits Antigua against U.S. and challenges WTO, By Gary Rivlin It lays out the angles that you wouldn’t see in just reading the case documents. My favorite quote [...]