Christopher Allen has posted on his interpretation of the four types of privacy and trust. His blog post is quite interesting and separates the definitions into defensive privacy, human-rights privacy, …
An interview with John Perry Barlow
Brian Doherty from Reason speaks with John Perry Barlow regarding the legalities of intellectual property, intellectual products and the development of culture. There is a summary from the interview via …
The licensing of code, copy and paste and attribution
Chris Adamson has written a really interesting blog post at O’Reilly (and at Java.net) about the licensing of code in books and also online web articles. Eric Meyer has also …
Divorcing via SMS in Malaysia
What is the world turning into? A Malaysian court has approved that Muslim men can divorce their wives via SMS using their mobile phones.
The Use vs. Intention of aggregated tools
An interesting article by Warren Harrison from IEEE titled, Whose Information Is It Anyway?, comments on a presentation from ICSE 2003 (the International Conference on Software Engineering) which looked at …
Legal threat to commercial Linux users
The owner of the UNIX operating system today warned that Linux is an unauthorised derivative of its software and that commercial users of Linux may be legally liable for violation …
The business-legal step by iTunes
Everywhere I look there seems to be an article, blog post or review of the new Apple iTunes version and the Music Store. Here is an interesting article, which looked …
The end of the free-wheeling Internet is over
There is an interesting article in the Wallstreet Journal titled, Taming the Internet frontier. The article looks at the Legal changing face of the Internet, including copyright, sales taxes, among …
What is Ogg Vorbis?
Ogg Vorbis is a completely open, patent-free, professional audio encoding and streaming technology with all the benefits of Open Source. Ogg is the name of the container format for audio, …
Protecting works from copyright in Australia
The Australian Copyright Council have a useful introductory article on protecting writing, visual imagery, music and moving imagery with copyright in Australia. The website also contains useful information sheets, publications, …
AGDA article on protecting identities
AGDA has a useful article on protecting identities such as logos. The article comments on strategies and contains a useful list of things to remember and consider for both a …
Tim Wu's Network Neutrality & Broadband Discrimination
While reading Lawrence Lessig’s blog, I came across an interesting paper by Tim Wu (Associate Professor of Law at the University of Virginia Law School) titled “Network Neutrality & Broadband …
Piracy raid on Australian Universities
The Australian newspaper comments on the Federal police raids of Australia’s ISP’s for alledged pirated music files such as MP3s which value a total of $60 million. The interesting nature …
Differences between ISSN and ISBN
What is the difference between ISSN and ISBN ? ISSN are assigned to serial publications; ISBN are assigned to monographs (“books”). An ISSN can be assigned to a series of …
Getting an ISSN license
Some useful articles and links on getting an ISSN license. An ISSN is the standardized international code which allows the identification of any serial publication independently of its country of …
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