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 […]
November 19, 2007 – 10:07 am
Geeklawyer was present at the birth of ORG, the UK EFF, a couple of years ago. To his joy she has reached the terrible two’s and is behaving disgracefully by kicking and screaming in public in all the wrong places: Parliament the Media and in public forums everywhere.
Jolly good job too. As it’s 2007 […]
August 10, 2007 – 11:23 am
617 OpenRightsGroup-Squadron has rolled lots of bouncing anti-DRM bombs and it is definitely looking like cracks are developing. Record companies need to get to high ground.
Geeklawyer was interested to see yet another label talking about issuing DRM free music. Last time it was EMI that released DRM free music in April. Now Universal is looking […]
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Tagged apple, bombs, CD, dam, DRM, emi, iTunes, mp3, music, Open Rights Group, p2p, raf, universal
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16 year old plus Girl Guides want a ’safe sex’ badge. Geeklawyer is available as a tutor, but not for the Brownies. Oh no.
The US is not interested in British opinions on the War on Terror. Wants to arrange the torture of people anyway. No shit?! really? - who’da thunk it.
Guantanamo trials a farce and […]
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 […]
Thanks to Danicar for telling Geeklawyer this news from the iCommons Summit (Jeez, don’t tell Apple about this prepended ‘i’ or there’ll be a C&D before Jobs can say “A new Lear Jet please.”).
He also gave a great motivational talk to Open Culture (not sure that really is a proper noun) activists - watch it […]
Geeklawyer notes, via Out-Law, that McKinnon has persuaded the Administrative Court to certify to questions to the House of Lords: a) was the American coercion applied to him to get him to ‘voluntarily‘ yield to extradition to the US on pain of not being repatriated to the UK to serve part of his sentence here […]
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Also posted in crime
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Tagged american, Common Law, court, crime, extradition, Geek, government, Guantanamo, House of Lords, music, police powers, RIAA-MPAA, UFO
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A reminder to all lawyers: the Open Rights Group’s party is taking place this Wednesday the 11th April at 7 pm at Bar Kick 126-127 Shoreditch High St. E1 6JE
You would not normally be hip enough to get into such a place. You know it and so does Geeklawyer. However Geeklawyer has arranged with ORG […]
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