Nov

29

Pirates or just small-time criminals?

Filed Under Copyright, Law blogs

Peter Black, an associate lecturer in law at the Queensland University of Technology, hosts this month’s Blawg Review on his Freedom To Differ blog, which focuses on the legal regulation of the internet and the media, providing an extensive selection of great links for the IP/media lawyer in particular.
One that caught my eye was to […]

By Nick Holmes, 29 November 2006

Nov

29

Adnonsense (2)

Filed Under Mammon, Blogging

Kevin O’Keefe blogs sensibly that running Google ads is inappropriate on blogs marketing professional service or product, pointing out that at the very best you may earn only a few hundred dollars a month.
If you’re a law firm or other professional service firm charging hundreds of dollars an hour for your time, do you want […]

By Nick Holmes, 29 November 2006

Nov

27

Law blog search

Filed Under Search, Law blogs

Two new (US-based) law blog search tools:
Blawg.com is a relaunch of Blawg.org with 1233 entries in 26 categories. It remains a coventional searchable catalogue with brief descriptions and links to both the blogs and their feeds.
BlawgSearch is a more advanced offering from Justia with 900 entries in 40 subject categories, 169 state law blogs […]

By Nick Holmes, 27 November 2006

Nov

27

Fun with numbers

Filed Under Fun, Blogging

Blog enthusiasts will be chuffed to learn that the blogosphere represents more than half of all websites. So bloggers rule! Or do they?
Netcraft, in its November 2006 web survey reports that there are now over 101 million websites (hostnames), commenting that “Blogs and small business web sites have driven the explosive growth this year, with […]

By Nick Holmes, 27 November 2006

Nov

24

Even bigots and boors have contractual rights (in good old Blighty)

Filed Under Contracts

Contracts again. Apparently it’s OK in the US to lie through your teeth to induce someone to sign a contract. Here in the UK it’s just not cricket.
[Borat] is described as “a documentary-style film” that the producer “hopes to reach a young adult audience using entertaining content and formats”. Clause four states that the participant […]

By Nick Holmes, 24 November 2006

Nov

24

Where culture comes from

Filed Under Copyright, Free culture

I can’t do better than quote verbatim from Jack Schofield in the Guardian Technology Blog:
Over at Slate, Paul Collins makes the reasonable point that lots of examples of plagiarism may well come to light as more old works are digitised for Google Book Search. I should hope so! What he doesn’t point out is that […]

By Nick Holmes, 24 November 2006

Nov

22

Opening up a new Vista

Filed Under Contracts

Computer lawyer Mark Rasch analyses Microsoft’s end user licence agreement (EULA) for the new Vista operating system and finds the boys in Redmond ready to help themselves, leaving you weeping on the floor.
The terms of the Vista EULA, like the current EULA related to the “Windows Genuine Advantage,” allows Microsoft to unilaterally decide that you […]

By Nick Holmes, 22 November 2006

Nov

21

No sign of the Times

Filed Under Law blogs, Blogging

What’s happened to the TimesOnline Law Weblog which has disappeared from the radar?
At the time of its launch I wondered how the TimesOnline Law section and the Law Weblog would co-exist, commenting that, compared to news sites, blogs “allow less formal reporting and comment, free from the usual editorial strictures”.
Could it be the blog was […]

By Nick Holmes, 21 November 2006

Nov

7

Elvis is not going to produce any more recordings

Filed Under Copyright, Free culture

In response to the proposed extension of UK copyright for recordings from 50 years to 95 years, Lawrence Lessig blogs on quantifying the value of the public domain pointing to this like-named paper by Rufus Pollock.

He also refers indirectly to an article by Eric Flint for Jim Baen’s Universe Copyright: How Long Should It Be? […]

By Nick Holmes, 7 November 2006

Nov

7

How to spend the next 2 minutes

Filed Under Miscellany

Visit the New Popular Edition Maps.
Locate your home/office.
Enter the post code.
Tell your friends.

By Nick Holmes, 7 November 2006

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