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What I’ve been surfing for 29th February 2008 through 12th March 2008

jordan — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 00:30:43 +0000

These are my links for 29th February 2008 through 12th March 2008:

Spam from Gmail doubled last month | InfoWorld | News | 2008-03-11 | By Jeremy Kirk, IDG News Service – “”It’s only a matter of time before [CAPTCHAs] are comprehensively defeated,” said Paul Wood, senior analyst at MessageLabs.”
Abandoning patents – when to do it (IP Thinktank Blog) – Bucknell gives some thoughts on when to cut out of the patent application process…
Report from the JISC/OPSI Power of Information Review forum – SCA has released the report from the joint JISC / OPSI event in January.
Eduserv unveils OpenAthens – “The launch builds on the successful and widely adopted Athens service[1], and enables Institutions to gain secure access to Shibboleth protected, UK Access Management Federation[2] resources and maintain access to Athens protected resources at low cost,
Design: Intellectual Property Donor Sticker Proves Your Unrealistic Arrogance After You’re Dead – Donating work to the public domain instead of organ donation upon death….
Trade and Censorship: The EU View – Net neutrality as an international trade issue…

What I’ve been surfing for 25th February 2008 through 27th February 2008

jordan — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 00:31:10 +0000

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 didn’t bother to get permission from the band or from Warner/Chappell Music Inc., which holds the publishing rights to the song.”
InfoWorld | Double-Plus Open Microsoft – “They have defined a set of principles around interoperability, open connections, standards and data portability. And they’ll be publishing detailed specs on the company’s APIs, protocols and file formats to provide greater transparency and support for in
Patent Troll Tracker: Blogger, Revealed – Unmasked due to a 10,000 dollar bounty…
IPM 2.1 – “Following a first public consultation on Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) held in 2006, the Commission has, through its Communication of 15th March 2007(1), committed itself to address some of the issues expressed by stakeholders regarding the risks

What I’ve been surfing for 4th February 2008 through 5th February 2008

jordan — Wed, 06 Feb 2008 00:30:46 +0000

These are my links for 4th February 2008 through 5th February 2008:

Closing of cybersquatting loophole is ‘excellent news’ for brand owners | OUT-LAW.COM – Death of kiting coverage on OUT-LAW
Debunking six myths of the Data Protection Act | OUT-LAW.COM – Good overview of common misconceptions of the DPA.
Czech Arbitration Court to be an approved UDRP dispute-resolution service provider – Wow! A new arbitration provider… I wonder how they will compare with leading UDRP provider WIPO.
OS makes OpenSpace open to all. However.. – Free our data comments on a new Ordnance Survey programme…
Google Paying Out Millions to Domain Kiters – Millions of dollars a month to kiters.

What I’ve been surfing for 25th January 2008 through 1st February 2008

jordan — Sat, 02 Feb 2008 00:30:14 +0000

These are my links for 25th January 2008 through 1st February 2008:

SSRN-Peeping into a Hacker’s Mind: Can Criminological Theories Explain Hacking? by Raghav Sharma – “The theoretical analysis demonstrates how the rewards in form of fame or money through hacking greatly outweigh the deterrence produced by law.” — I’m wondering if the author makes the hacker/cracker distinction. It doesn’t appear so in the abstract.
Format shifting review – Australia is reviewing format shifting as well as the UK…
UK and Scottish Law Commissions Propose Repeal of Hundreds of Old Statutes – Time trim the dead wood. Via SLAW.
Teenager held over theft of 36 mil. yen in virtual cash : National : DAILY YOMIURI ONLINE (The Daily Yomiuri) – “A computer whiz kid has been arrested on suspicion of hacking into the server of an online game company and defrauding it out of about 36 million yen worth of virtual money, the Metropolitan Police Department said Thursday.” Virtual cash, virtual crime,
Out of 600,000 bits of space debris, we’re about to be hit by one the size of a bus – Scotsman.com News – “UK bookmakers last night placed the odds of being struck by this US spy satellite at at least 20 billion to one.” If anything odd ever happens, you can be sure that the UK bookies will calculate the odds on it.
Social Networks for Law Librarians and Law Libraries, or How We Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love Friending | LLRX.com –

What I’ve been surfing for 4th January 2008 through 14th January 2008

jordan — Tue, 15 Jan 2008 00:31:40 +0000

These are my links for 4th January 2008 through 14th January 2008:

Some Comments the US-Antigua Gambling Arbitration – Goes over the standards used in the case regarding internet gaming.
Top Ten Myths of Entrepreneurship – Starting a biz ain’t easy.
U.K. prepares for amended computer crime law | InfoWorld – “A six-page document published on Monday by the Crown Prosecution Service (CPS) gives prosecutors pointers for handling offenses under soon-to-change provisions of the Computer Misuse Act (CMA) of 1990.”
Law Firm Aims to Be Go-To Firm in ‘Digital Trespassing’ Niche – “The law firm is carving out a niche in representing consumers who say their rights are being abridged by unwanted text messages on cell phones and undisclosed online meddling with their computers, among other things, in a kind of “digital trespassing,”"
Law.com – 9th Circuit Harmonizes With IP Holders in Karaoke Case – Court rules that karaoke is an audiovisual work and requires a separate copyright license for the lyrics.

What I’ve been surfing for 19th December 2007 through 3rd January 2008

jordan — Fri, 04 Jan 2008 00:44:14 +0000

These are my links for 19th December 2007 through 3rd January 2008:

Patent Baristas » Changes to the European Patent Convention – Overview of EPC 2000 that has come into effect.
Patent Troll Tracker – Blog on patent trolls.
Film on Demand – Review of need for more legal content online
Jean-Luc Godard reveals that he stole money to finance his films – Theft is art.
Must-Read Nanotechnology Report – Report on nanotech
ABA Journal Blawg 100 | ABA Journal – Law News Now – The top 100 includes a number of the ones in my feed reader and a few I hadn’t heard of. Worth checking out.
Company suing OLPC wants $20 million to settle | InfoWorld – “Oyegbola said he hopes his company can still settle with OLPC. “We’re hoping it doesn’t get to [a trial],” he said. “It’s in the hands of the lawyers now.”"
ALT-C — Call for Papers – “Can a balance be struck, or will the future be open source (and/or open access)?”
Timothy Karr: Ten Worst Telco Moments of 2007 – Media on The Huffington Post –
Science Commons » Protocol for Implementing Open Access Data – New protocol for an Open Access Data Mark.
CCZero – CC Wiki – Wiki page on the upcoming CCZero legal tool.
QMPRI | International Copyright Protection System – “Professor J.A.L. Sterling has drafted a series of documents to serve as research material for studies on current copyright issues.”

What I’ve been surfing for 13th October 2007 through 27th November 2007

jordan — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 00:32:32 +0000

These are my links for 13th October 2007 through 27th November 2007:

Copyright and trade mark trolls? (IP Thinktank Blog) – Copyright trolls? There’s a thought…
public.resource.org – Freeing gov info
NPR : Ed Burns Makes First Straight-to-iTunes Movie – One of my favourite moviemakers new film is going straight to iTunes rather than through traditional theatre distribution.
Sunday Herald: Opinion & Debate: Opinion & Debate – “There are two practical reasons why. Some years ago, Sean Connery and David Murray tried to get a film studio going outside Edinburgh – with backing from Sony – but the figures just didn’t stack up.”
teachingcopyright.org – California requires teaching copyright if you get a technology grant, and this CC-licensed site aims to provide material.
OPSI Legislation – heading towards the semantic web – Binary law review of OPSI report

What I’ve been surfing for 6th October 2007 through 10th October 2007

jordan — Thu, 11 Oct 2007 00:33:27 +0000

These are my links for 6th October 2007 through 10th October 2007:

New Draft of the Reform Treaty – Draft changes to the EU.
Canada Notifies Compulsory Licence to Export – I saw a Prof speak on this at Edinburgh the other week. Very interesting.
Open Access Law Europe – I didn’t even know that there was any moves in this area. It will be good to see how this progresses.
Duluth News Tribune | Tech-savvy world is wired to trial in Duluth – Technollama in the news… ?Because it?s not enforced as forcefully as in the U.S., I probably would say it?s flaunted more; people do it more openly in Europe,? Guadamuz said.
Home – Keep Your Copyrights – Really cool site about copyright for creatives. Has some great annotated sample contracts.