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 Intellectual Property, competition, copyright, litigation, microsoft
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Tagged competition, EU, european, European Court, IT, licence, microsoft
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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 […]
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, Intellectual Property, copyright, linux, patents
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Tagged Debian, Free software, FSF, GPL, linux, Open Source, Software Patents, stallman, Torvalds
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January 23, 2007 – 1:30 pm
Geeklawyer thinks that getting someone to pay big bucks twice for the same thing is a pretty neat trick; he’s only ever managed it once. When it’s the government doing it to him however he is a little more outraged. For example trying making him pay a second time to get access to statutes, or […]
November 15, 2006 – 10:09 pm
Geeklawyer stumbled across a rather dull story about eBay and its rules of conduct in relation to merchants. In summary if you do business on eBay you agree to lots of stuff. The stuff includes VeRO which is designed to assert the rights of an intellectual property owner against intruders. Thus if someone on eBay […]
Geeklawyer will trumpet long and hard his involvement in the drafting of the UK Creative Commons Licence, while skirting quickly over the fact that it was a vanishingly minor contribution. Nonetheless, the ravenous ego must be fed.
He therefore pleads embarrassment when discussing this. He was however interested to see Andras’ post over at Technollama at […]
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Also posted in copyright
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Tagged artists, bars, BPI, CC, Creative Commons, ego, gym, licence, MCPS, mtv, treadmill, TV
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As is usually the case, what happens first in the US eventually winds up coming across the Big Pond. So it was with suing filesharers and so it is with the record companies targeting the ISP. the BPI is saying to Bulldog and Tiscali that they should enforce their own T&Cs by cutting off Internet […]
Whilst MI5 struggle with a lack of resources to combat the ongoing threat of Islamic Extremism, readers will be pleased to learn that taxes have been spent on the prosecution of two London cabbies for urinating in the street. As a consequence of the conviction for causing a public nuisance their hackney licence i.e their […]
Out-law.com is saying that the Business Software Alliance (BSA), masquerading as independent but in fact Microsoft’s secret licensing police, has upped its rewards for people reporting business software infringement to a maximum of £20,000.
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