The IIPI has now published my report for them on domain names! The UDRP: A Guide for SMEs and Consumers on Domain Names and Domain Name Disputes See their announcement for the link. Blog: The UDRP – A Guide for SMEs

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 — [...]

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 [...]

(I like the new logo!) For those of you back in Texas, EFF-Austin is having a meetup: EFF Austin is renewing the practice of monthly supporter meetings.  The first in this series will be held at 7pm on Thursday, July 5th at Progress Coffee (see links below for maps and additional information).  This first meeting [...]

The June 2007 issue of SCRIPT-ed, the Journal of Law and Technology, is now available: http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/ahrc/script-ed/issue4-2.asp In this issue: Editorial “Douglas v Hello! – An OK! result”, Gillian Black Peer-Reviewed Articles    “Do Asian Nations Take Intellectual Property Rights Seriously?” Assafa Endeshaw. “The day after the Computer-Implemented Inventions Directive: who won the battle and when shall [...]

Lessig announced that two of the CC licences — Developing Nations and one of the Sampling licences, are to be discontinued. These join 5 other licences discontinued in May of 2004. He gives two main reasons — lack of demand and conflict with the open access movement: The reasons for these retirements are both practical [...]

(HT to Slaw) Law.com reports on the new wiki by the US Court of Appeals for the 7th Circuit, available at http://www.ca7.uscourts.gov/wiki/. Judge Easterbrook, who led the project, gives the purpose of the project: The goal is to concentrate on procedure (in both the court of appeals and the district courts) but not to cover [...]