Geeklawyer can’t really justify posting this story on a legal blog but he’ll do it anyway (OK lets call it ‘crime’ and forget that it’s 300 years out of date). Boing Boing reports that Robin Crusoe’s Treasure is found. 600 barrels of Inca gold worth approximately $10Billion dollars was found 15 metres below the surface by a robot using ground penetrating radar. Continue reading ‘Pirate treasure’
Monthly Archive for September, 2005
If you really really need another example of the, entirely forseen, consequences of over protecting anti-circumvention devices you may have it from this cell phone unlocking article from Wired. Continue reading ‘para-copyright follies episode 1000′
Over at Right to Know Heather Brooke reopens the debate about how many times the public has to pay for it’s own information. Continue reading ‘Crown copyright — time for change?’
Geeklawyer is a new convert to rss (and to a lesser extent atom) feeds. To those not aware of them, these are ‘magic buttons’ which appear on web sites and which allow you, if you subscribe to the sites, to be informed when and what has changed on them since the last time you visited. Continue reading ‘RSS feeds: God’s gift’
There’s a new US meta blawging site lawfirmblogging which is showing initial promise. Continue reading ‘blawg marketing’
Over at Naked Law the Cambridge boys are chewing the Clearspring gristle. This is a classic contract negotiation problem to IT lawyers: who gets the code copyright? Continue reading ‘who should own commissioned software?’
Lawpundit reveals the return of the annoying Furby doll and asks whether Furby’s statements would be admissible in court. Geeklawyer says ‘perhaps’, but he wouldn’t want to do the cross examination: a bit confusing.
Over at CoCo rik talks about a company called Vesco. They market a product to ISPs that “blocks bandwidth drains such as Skype, P2P messaging, streaming media and instant messaging”. Continue reading ‘Blocking Skype p2p and instant messaging’
Over on Techdirt Geeklawyer reads of a new product to spoil surreptitious picture taking by zapping a blinding laser light into the hidden lens. Continue reading ‘Blinded by the light’
Baidu the wildly successful Chinese music search engine is being sued by the Chinese arms of the Usual Suspects. Universal, EMI, Warner, Sony BMG and subsidiaries, Cinepoly, Go East and Gold Label have filed a complaint in a Beijing court that the search engine enabled users to find and download mp3 music files. Continue reading ‘Record companies go after Chinese mp3 search engines’
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