Quick announcement to say that yesterday(28th February 2008) The AHRC Research Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law at the University of Edinburgh will be now known as SCRIPT. SCRIPT incidentally was the original name of the centre. Following the fine tradition of acronyms everywhere, SCRIPT used to stand for something but now [...]

Intellectual Property Watch » World Customs Organization Recommends Far-Reaching New Rules On IP Snip: A Brazilian diplomat suggested that the governments from leading industrialised countries in Europe and North America are aware that they would be unable to win sufficient support at the World Trade Organisation to extend the scope of TRIPS. The diplomat argued [...]

These are my links for 25th February 2008 through 27th February 2008: The Top 50 Proprietary Programs that Drive You Crazy ? and Their Open Source Alternatives | WHDb – Great list! Copyright levy under EU spotlight | OUT-LAW.COM – More levies! Conservative copyright minister accused of breaching copyright law – “One problem: the Conservatives [...]

Just to flag this up for twitchgamer readers, I’ve started a new blog IPIT Events, which collects upcoming IP and IT law events in the UK. In the past, I’ve found it difficult to keep up with all the upcoming events in IP and IT law happening around Britain. So I started a blog focused [...]

Could the UK be on its way to written constitution? BBC reports comments that “Justice Secretary Jack Straw has sent out a strong signal that the government is ready to draw up Britain’s first ever written constitution.” Wonder how IP will factor in if it comes into existence? IP rights — patents and copyrights — [...]

Thanks to SCRIPTed and some behind the scenes work by myself, BILETA 2008 will have a panel on open access to the law. Read more about it on the BILETA site.

Another of my posts on academic posts… Tilburg University in The Netherlands is advertising for a PhD and a postdoc for their new Tilburg Institute of Comparative and Transnational Law. Edinburgh Research and Innovation is looking for a lawyer. I also note that there are several advertisements among current and former members of the Commonwealth, [...]