Archive for the 'law' Category

On Copyright

Monday, May 21st, 2007

I’ve had an interesting morning so far, reading various articles and arguments in the field of copyright law. Well I thought it was interesting anyway. Its something I’ve long been interested in and something that is getting talked about more and more as its starting to affect things that some people care about. […]

More on Law

Tuesday, February 13th, 2007

It appears that some law-makers do have a sense of humour:
http://blogs.walkerart.org/offcenter/?p=631
Brilliant.

Thoughts on Music

Wednesday, February 7th, 2007

Steve Jobs has recently posted his “Thoughts on Music”.
Its very well worded; mainly, I think, to try to push any responsibility for DRM onto the big four (Universal, EMI, Sony BMG and Warner). Still it is interesting to note that Steve, and hence Apple inc., would drop DRM in a heartbeat if they didn’t […]

Common sense revolts at the idea

Tuesday, February 6th, 2007

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/politics/6329851.stm
‘An EU bid to make internet broadcasters subject to the same laws as traditional television is “seriously misguided”, a House of Lords committee has said.’
Sometimes the House of Lords does something to make me really glad that they exist. Now I’m no expert on the workings of our UK political system, but it seems […]

Its copyright time again

Thursday, September 23rd, 2004

Most of my posts about copyright have been US biased, because thats where all the action is at the moment. So its nice to have an easy to read article about the situation in American written by a UK based journalist. Here it is: http://www.vnunet.com/comment/1158300 . It might make more sense to you […]


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