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 [...]

Open Rights Group is looking for interns — this might be particularly good for you UK law students out there…

I’m updating some software, and saw this beginning to the End User Licensing Agreement (EULA), which I really like. It highlights a more business oriented approach that tries to engage with their customer base, and puts off some criticism of the one-sided nature of EULAs — at least from a PR standpoint if not a [...]

From a post on how the new e-discovery rules in the USA are shaking out: “In-house lawyers and IT people never have lunch together,” answers Ralph Losey, an attorney specializing in e-discovery at law firm Akerman Senterfitt. Not only do they often not understand each other, they often don’t like each other. This is not [...]

May 2007 Election Report: Findings of the Open Rights Group Election Observation Mission in Scotland and England. This report gives the findings of ORG’s election observers from the trial projects at e-voting in Scotland and England from May 2007.  For further details, please consult the site.  The conclusions on the Scottish Parliament follow: The Scottish [...]

(HT to Adjunct Law Prof Blog) There is a new article on the possibilities of having to pay overtime for employee use of Blackberry’s and other technology devices outside of regular working hours. J M Schlossberg and K B Malerba, “Tech-Tock: Work in a connected world” New York Law Journal: Labor & Employment 21 May [...]

So if you’ve been wondering why I haven’t blogged as much in-depth material lately, this is one of the reasons. I’ve been hard at work on the report for the IT-based business and FTA report. The report has been released as part of our working paper series and placed on SSRN. Citation and abstract below: [...]