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Lilian Edwards in panGloss Law

Oct 24, 2005

Honey, I Trademarked the Blog

The Markenblog blog reports that on October 21, 2005 the term law blog was registered by the owner of the popular German blog “law blog”. The registration does not, actually, expressly cover blogs, but legal services in class 42, and services including the presentation of…

Lilian Edwards in panGloss Law

Oct 27, 2005

Secure feed ISPs

Interestingly since writing the last post, I’ve noticed that Edinburgh University — who act as my ISP and that of many 1000s of staff and students have begun compulsorily scanning the accounts of users, by administrative unit, for security breaches and vulnerabilities. And yes, you can opt out —…

Lilian Edwards in panGloss Law

Oct 21, 2005

Once More With Lawyers

Fox have closed down a planned fan performance of the well known Buffy musical Once More With Feeling at a fan convention, on copyright grounds, despite la Joss himself saying he was happy for it to go ahead. Illustrating yet again that the interests of the artists/creators themselves and…

Lilian Edwards in panGloss Law

Sep 23, 2005

Blog censorship handbook

Interesting BBC article on how bloggers should deal with state censorship, and tips on how to maintain anonymity. One interesting point is that although it is some states such as China and Singapore which are seen as providing rules repressive of freedom of expression, it is private…

Lilian Edwards in panGloss Law

Oct 20, 2005

Oxford Internet Institute UK Survey

The Oxford Internet Institute survey of UK Internet usage landed on my desk (yes! hard copy! how quaint!) this morning. It is a thing of wonder. Every totally obvious statement you ever wanted to include in an article but couldn’t be bothered to find statistical…

Lilian Edwards in panGloss Law

Oct 28, 2005

Publication on web in Scotland is not “public” enough!

The latest Brodies Solicitors free technology law supplement helpfully tells me of an intersting recent Scottish Fredom of Information decision.

In Decision 001/2005, Mr l and the Lothian & Borders Safety Camera Partnership (17 May…

Lilian Edwards in panGloss Law

Oct 24, 2005

Creative Commons: threat or menace?-)

Some random quotes from an online discusion on LIve JOurnal after a Friday night pub discussion on whether open source, creative commons and the rest of the anti copyright movements are new religions or merely fora for the development of useful tools:

“Creative…

Lilian Edwards in panGloss Law

Sep 21, 2005

Purpose of the blog

This blog is directed towards the students in the LLM in Information Technology and the Law (both on campus and distance learning). It is not obligatory work, and it does not constitute assessment in class. The opinions expressed here are not necessarily those of the AHRC Centre.

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Lilian Edwards in panGloss Law

Oct 19, 2005

It’s a hacker’s life being a security pro

Hands up if you’ve never worried that a website that looks oh so real might just be a phishing site? We’ve all by now unfortunately seen enough sites that look as real as apple pie, but something — the URL usually — tells us that actually, it’s a vehicle…

Lilian Edwards in panGloss Law

Oct 27, 2005

Liability of ISPs for malware?

Bruce Schneier has reiterated his long held belief that ISPs should be held liable for their part in spreading viruses and malware.

The Register quote him as saying: “It’s about externalities — like a chemical company polluting a river — they don’t live downstream and they…

Lilian Edwards in panGloss Law

Sep 23, 2005

Suing Google Print

Also from the Beeb, but all over the Web, Google is being sued by an alliance of book publishers, the Author’s Guild, over its Google Print scheme. Basically Google Print involves scanning 1000s of books, found in certain university libraries, and when you do a search, GP will deliver you a…

Lilian Edwards in panGloss Law

Nov 2, 2005

Th First World Trade War

(via Lenz Blog) Last March, the WTO’s Appellate Body confirmed the ruling against the United States in the case of cotton subsidies (DSB 267). This case was brought by Brazil against the United States arguing that the cotton industry in that country is obtaining subsidies from the…

Lilian Edwards in panGloss Law

Sep 13, 2005

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