Category Archives: Digital Rights

reminder - ORG Party Wednesday 11th April London.

April 8, 2007 – 7:57 pm

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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Torvalds ‘pleased’ with the GPL 3 draft

March 29, 2007 – 4:52 pm

News.com has done an interview with Linus Torvalds in which he is said to be pleased with the new GPL version 3 draft. Keeping Linus happy is a good thing since he controls the largest and most important Free/Open Source software project around: the Linux kernel.
Having read the interview it looks more like he is […]

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e-voting - electoral fraud coming soon to a polling booth near you

March 19, 2007 – 6:21 pm

Becky Hogge, near divine ORG goddess, has asked Geeklawyer to mention ORG’s e-voting initiative for May. They need volunteers in certain areas to observe the trials of e-voting. Lawyers would be particularly well suited. Training given and it would allow you to play a much needed part in directly protecting an important emerging technology for […]

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ORG Party - even lawyers are welcome

March 13, 2007 – 11:56 am

In a blatant and cynical attempt to do a sort of networking/viral/Web 2.0 thingy, kinda, the digital civil liberties group ORG are having a party in London on the 11th April in the Bar Kick @ 127 Shoreditch High St.

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Copyright talk by Professor Jonathan Zittrain

November 27, 2006 – 9:44 pm

Professor Zit (yes, Geeklawyer is in sniggering schoolboy mode) is a renowned Harvard cyberlaw scholar currently a Professorial Fellow at Keeble Oxford. He recently gave the keynote speech at the Open Rights Groups “Release the Music‘ event.
A fascinating talk well worth listening to, with some interesting insights and analogies.
I’ve mirrored the ogg file of the […]

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Ego Puffing VI: Crown copyright as a tool of censorship

July 18, 2006 – 5:10 pm

The excellent Open Democracy website with its dazzlingly brilliant managing editor Becky Hogge (OK, confession time: she’s a friend and all too occasional drinking buddy but it’s still true) had the good sense to ask ‘rent a hyperbolic quote’ Geeklawyer for his views which he gives; read it here.

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