Archive for the ‘Intellectual property issues’ Category
Thursday, June 23rd, 2005
Word today that there's going to be movement on the European software patents issue in early July. The European Parliament will vote on the second reading of the directive sometime between fifth and seventh July. FFII, who have been running much of the campaign against the patents, claim that lobbying ...
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Tuesday, June 21st, 2005
I must admit to having been somewhat perplexed by the manner in which Creative Commons chose to celebrate the first birthday of the Free Culture Movement. As has been noted in a comment on Lessig's site using the 'Happy Birthday' tune is a somewhat odd choice. Kembrew McLeod reports the ...
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Thursday, May 5th, 2005
This is bizarre. I'm no fan of Westlife as a 'musical' group but I can't help feeling they've been wronged here. The EU's Court of First Instance has annulled the decision to grant the band an EU trademark in the word Westlife - on the grounds that a German tobacco ...
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Wednesday, April 13th, 2005
This is a strange issue. A public radio host aired audio he had recorded from C-SPAN. His station fired him, without notice, for "gross violation of federal copyright law and consequently WRPI's policy." Thing is - C-SPAN doesn't believe there's been any breach of copyright and didn't complain. Ah, over-active ...
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Friday, April 1st, 2005
I don't know if it's because of, or despite, their intensely sarcastic style, but ntk is an extremely informative bulletin on developments (particularly in the UK and Europe) relating to technology and related topics such as copyright, patents and 'eDemocracy' efforts. In today's bulletin they talk about time-shifting. First they ...
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Wednesday, March 16th, 2005
Lawrence Lessig has decided not to publish in journals that force him to sign over his copyright or that do not allow him to license his article under at least a Creative Commons attribution-noncommercial license. [This is a relatively restricted license that would not allow commercial use - thereby preventing ...
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Monday, March 7th, 2005
Lessig has rightly brought attention to the European Commission's refusal to back down over software patents, despite losing a vote in the European Parliament. As Matt Drudge would say, "developing..."
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Wednesday, March 2nd, 2005
I've finished the paper on Columcille, or at least the first working version - I assume there will be later incarnations of it. I attach a PDF - I'd appreciate comments and responses.
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Friday, February 25th, 2005
I recently mentioned the objections some people have to the term piracy in the context of a piece on pirate radio. Of course the term is also used in relation to unauthorised/illegal copying of copyright material, as I mentioned in passing, and I've just encountered, once again, RMS's comments. I ...
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Tuesday, February 22nd, 2005
As days go today has been more productive than many. I must admit it's been somewhat strange though. I've been working mainly on an essay focusing on intellectual property - you could describe it as the political economy of intellectual property in an archaic social system - which is related ...
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