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 21, 2008 – 9:03 pm
Let us be clear on this. Rugby is the only game for gentlemen to play. Well, OK, Rugby Union: Rugby League is a clever tool for gentrifying Tucker over a period of decades and for distracting him from the perilous dangers of football fandom. Football is a game for morons: those who enjoy watching it […]
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Also posted in litigation
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Tagged Barrister, BDSM, civil litigation, CPR, football, High Court, IP, IPKat, judge, litigants, rugby
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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 […]
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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Also posted in competition, copyright, licenses, litigation, microsoft
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Tagged competition, EU, european, European Court, IT, licence, microsoft
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October 9, 2007 – 2:46 pm
Geeklawyer is impressed and also concerned that Darling specifically mentioned intellectual property in his speech to Parliament today. For politicians to have an interest in IP is mostly good; the concern will be that it will be driven by simplistic policies favouring the wishes of American lobbyists in the UK.
August 29, 2007 – 8:14 pm
Never mind all those pesky kids sharing music on p2p systems or pirates pressing fake Windows Vista DVDs; how about the British government engaged in wholesale theft of IP know-how & trade secrets at, literally, gunpoint?
At the end of the second World War it seems that the British government felt that it would be useful […]
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Also posted in abuse
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Tagged Germany, government, IP, know-how, military, p2p, pirate, POW, science, theft, trade secrets, war, ww2
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And about frigging time too.
Frank Schilling on his blog reveals that three patent lawyers are suing the US Department of Commerce over their appointment of Margaret Peterlin who is, they say, ‘unqualified’ to be the head of the USPTO.
For geeks like Geeklawyer this sorta matters. US IP policy is a controversial area and its competence […]
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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Also posted in Digital Rights, Geek, copyright, licenses, linux, patents
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Tagged Debian, Free software, FSF, GPL, linux, Open Source, Software Patents, stallman, Torvalds
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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.
Apple and Crisco swear blind it was all a misunderstanding.
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