Geeklawyer attended the, surprisingly and very disappointingly lightly attended, SCL annual lecture at the IET on Wednesday to hear Professor Lawrence Lessig’s thoughtful Corruption 2.0 talk. That very light attendance bore an ominous portent for his theme, to which GL shall return shortly.
As an aside Geeklawyer really would recommend everyone, IT/IP/whatever lawyer or geek regardless, […]
January 8, 2008 – 9:34 pm
Mashable reports that US Internet radio streaming company is shutting down UK access to its site after being unable to get a commercially sensible licensing agreement with the shysters crooks and shakedown artists of the MCPRS/PRS and PPL. This is a rather disappointing follow-on to the US campaign of the RIAA to suppress independent radio […]
December 9, 2007 – 10:18 pm
You know, sometimes Geeklawyer really is convinced that Darwinian evolution works in reverse. The more stupid selfish and greedy one is the more likely one is to succeed in the face of contumelious morals and behaviour.
You’d imagine fucking a small vulnerable worthy charity in the arse would be regarded as a bit of a no-no. […]
October 23, 2007 – 3:45 pm
Microsoft’s long held and well deserved reputation as a government eater has perished on the sword of the most unlikely and tremulous dragon-slayer: the EU Competition Commission. M$ have finally yielded to the Competition Commission and will make no appeal against the decision of the European Court in 2004.
This is a qualified victory for consumers: […]
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Tagged competition, EU, european, European Court, IT, licence, microsoft
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September 5, 2007 – 5:27 pm
Geeklawyer is a great admirer of Professor Lessig, particularly after his battering in the Eldred case when he was, manifestly, right. Unfortunately courts are occasionally wrong on the facts the law the policy, or even all three.
So it was nice to see the 10th Circuit ruling for him for once and against the US Government. […]
August 29, 2007 – 8:53 pm
Hmmm.
Personally Geeklawyer loaths professor Eben Moglen of the FSF. We bumped heads with a while back and he came across as yet another loudmouthed pompous American academic lawyer with an unobjective assessment of his own brilliance.
Geeklawyer thinks the GPL3 to be brilliant in its objectives but poorly crafted, as is so often the case with […]
Breaking news!!!
A little bird, well - MIA coblogger Becky, has told Geeklawyer that the government has told the music industry to shove its mechanical copyright term extension request up its arse.
Huzzah!! Let the bells ring out. Let peals of joy be heard across the land! The public domain has been spared.
Pretty soon there’ll be loads […]
Geeklawyer really wanted to dislike the new Prince Album since height challenged one went mad in the ’90’s, changed his name to a short Perl script and stubbornly refused to deliver a worthy successor to ‘Little Red Corvette‘.
On the other hand any musician who pisses off music industry retailers record labels and other pompous […]
Yes, gentle reader, get your hanky ready. You thought Geeklawyer brutally dumping Ruthie was a tearjerker? well that was trivial compared to the emotional pain of the music industry. It seems that some idiot carelessly broke their business model. Now it seems that they are strapped for cash. Cocaine is no longer available on-tap in […]
Thanks to Harry Metcalfe for alerting Geeklawyer to the news, greeted with weary ennui, that Parliament is thinking of yielding to the special interest groups and uber rich lobbying power of the music cartel. Despite Gower saying that extending the mechanical copyright term from 50 to 70 years was unjustified on economic grounds the […]
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Tagged copyright, extension, Gower, laptop, mechanical copyright protection, morality, MPs, music, parliament, published edition, recordings, RIAA-MPAA
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