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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

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

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…

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