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2004–2006

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December 2006

  1. Computers in movies
  2. To snowclone or not to snowclone
  3. Music industry sues AllofMP3.com
  4. Halliburton loses appeal on software patent case
  5. SCRIPT-ed December 2006
  6. Bridging the Costa Rican digital divide
  7. Commission green-lights CAFTA in Costa Rica
  8. Inventor kills lawyer over idea for portable toilet
  9. Musician revolt?
  10. Bush and Arias talk CAFTA
  11. Spanish café loses case on "free music"
  12. When the Internet breaks
  13. Troubled CAFTA in Costa Rica
  14. Costa Rica

November 2006

  1. Time to be mildly optimistic about IP policy?
  2. Gifts for geeks
  3. Copyright is socialism?
  4. The Internet is NOT for porn
  5. Another online libel and ISP liability case
  6. Microsoft splitting open source community
  7. Microsoft’s grand DRM plan to take over the world
  8. Survey on privacy expectations of bloggers
  9. GPL wins case in the United States
  10. UK denies Denial of Service attacks
  11. 10 years of the WCT
  12. Copyright industry exaggerates piracy
  13. Defending your reputation online
  14. Microsoft waives patent enforcement against SuSE
  15. Criminal Enforcement Directive Workshop
  16. More on Aerotel’s ruling
  17. YouTube blues

October 2006

  1. Costa Rican online gambling still working
  2. Report urges copyright law reform
  3. Court of Appeals rules on software patent appeal
  4. New York, New York
  5. Copyright Activity Patch
  6. Regulating YouTube?
  7. Patenting movies? The MPAA says no
  8. Microsoft goes into open access territory
  9. Virtual worlds hit the mainstream
  10. Patenting food?
  11. Malware installation email
  12. Fox goes the weasel
  13. New internet defamation case
  14. The Broken Net
  15. Google buys YouTube’s lawsuits?
  16. Interoperability at work: Firefox and Vista
  17. Game software patent upheld in Europe
  18. Copyleft manual
  19. iTunes DRM cracked
  20. Don’t bet on online gambling
  21. Curious worm virus email

September 2006

  1. Shiny Happy People
  2. Limewire Strikes Back
  3. Security breach in Second Life
  4. Zune and Creative Commons
  5. Behind BIOS – Interview with Richard Jefferson
  6. GPL upheld in Germany. Again.
  7. EU Software Patents: The Sequel
  8. SSRN Revolution
  9. There be pirates, matey!
  10. Zune out of tune?
  11. SCRIPT-ed September 2006 issue
  12. Copyright implications of the social web
  13. Virtual personalities
  14. eDonkey throws in the towel
  15. SCRIPT-ed books for review
  16. Confessions of a conference organiser
  17. Gikii
  18. Late BlogDay 2006
  19. Close Wikipedia!

August 2006

  1. Universal revolutionises music downloads
  2. Wikicharts
  3. IT World Conference next week
  4. Software patent on the BBC
  5. Apple settles iPod suit
  6. Don’t download this song on campus
  7. NYT studies paedophile chat rooms
  8. First WiMax UK city
  9. Scam, UN style
  10. Making Linux user-friendly
  11. Blogosphere Wars
  12. Software support
  13. Microsoft Live
  14. Sunday Bloody Remix
  15. E-learning patented
  16. Music industry sues LimeWire
  17. Copyright at the Fringe
  18. Meta-phishing?
  19. Blogosphere is written by somebody else
  20. One Laptop Per Child
  21. Stronger IP rights coming your way

July 2006

  1. New draft of GPL v3 published
  2. KaZaA deal worth gloating about?
  3. iCommons Summit 2007 announced
  4. Wikipedia celebrates American independence
  5. Blogging behind a firewall
  6. Pakistan
  7. DRM-free music sold on Yahoo
  8. Vorsprung durch technik
  9. Computer Law Conference programme published
  10. Chronicle of a suit foretold
  11. Shakira don’t lie
  12. Bars in Spain
  13. European patent policy under review
  14. Tom Chance on the iCommons summit
  15. Jet-lagged in Sydney
  16. Down Under
  17. Filling an iPod legally
  18. Rio Declarations
  19. Blog ecosystem
  20. Microsoft in court
  21. Moblogging CC

June 2006

  1. Attacking OSS
  2. The White Man’s Burden
  3. Summit winding down
  4. Day 3 keynote session
  5. Reviewed llamas
  6. Commons in art, science, and culture
  7. First day impressions
  8. Policy workshops
  9. Summit begins with a bang
  10. Live from Rio
  11. Brazil, Brazil
  12. When moral rights go wrong
  13. Help Microsoft, get smacked for it
  14. June 2006 Issue of SCRIPT-ed online
  15. iPods and ripping CDs
  16. Software Patents: The story
  17. Net neutrality defeated in the US
  18. Piratebay back online
  19. OSS Conference 2nd day
  20. OSS conference highlights
  21. OSS 2006
  22. DRM in the news
  23. Silly Saturday Strikes Back
  24. Fuck – the ultimate legal SSRN paper
  25. Venezuela goes free software
  26. Unlocking IP Conference

May 2006

  1. Commons creative utopia?
  2. Firefox in the news
  3. Freedom of expression campaign online
  4. Is the EU scrapping software patents?
  5. Machinima project under CC-Scotland
  6. Open Source in Europe report out
  7. Synthetic Biology webcast today
  8. Symantec sues Microsoft
  9. High-tech cheats
  10. Computer Law Conference registration
  11. WIPO Advisory Committee on Enforcement: Day 3
  12. WIPO Advisory Committe on Enforcement: Day 2
  13. eBay v MercExchange ruling
  14. WIPO Enforcement Meeting: Day 1
  15. WIPO Advisory Committee on Enforcement
  16. Open Source Car
  17. Software and biotech patent reform
  18. Code Breakers
  19. Your console speaks
  20. Podcasters of the world, unite and take over
  21. Hack NASA, hunt for UFOs
  22. Requiem for the sui generis Database Right?
  23. Digital Radio: nice idea, shame about the fees
  24. Deep linking. Again.
  25. Virtual money in the real world
  26. Open standards, open source and open innovation
  27. Blogging for fun and promotion
  28. Firefox awards fan videos

April 2006

  1. Creative Commons: 3, Collecting Agencies: 0
  2. New Benkler book and interview
  3. Virtual PowerPoint
  4. The Daily Mail picnic
  5. Creative Commons: publishing paradigm?
  6. Email addresses are not signatures
  7. Credit card companies liable for overseas purchases
  8. Charting the blogosphere
  9. Top Jobs: university professor 2nd
  10. Everything you wanted to know about rootkits…
  11. The Easter Bunny Hates You
  12. The real cost of piracy
  13. Piracy sells
  14. Cyber-bullying case settled
  15. Patently MAD
  16. What’s wrong with Oklahoma?
  17. Da Vinci Code ruling available
  18. Dan Brown wins ‘Code’ case
  19. Macrossan: New software patent case
  20. Lucent sues Microsoft. Again.
  21. Netflix sues Blockbuster
  22. China protects virtual property
  23. April’s Fools roundup
  24. Artist tops charts without a single CD sale

March 2006

  1. The DRM debate
  2. CFP reminder
  3. The zombie clause
  4. When batteries run out…
  5. Stealing Wifi
  6. March 2006 issue of SCRIPT-ed live
  7. The politics of access to knowledge
  8. Measuring CC popularity
  9. Downloaders buy more music
  10. The Economist on open source
  11. Vanity Wikipedia
  12. A licence or a contract?
  13. Update on Dutch CC case
  14. Online gold farming
  15. EDonkey server shut down
  16. Creative Commons enforced in court
  17. Changes in media consumption patterns
  18. The wild and wacky world of chain letters
  19. Report clears GPL of securities threat
  20. Google Drive
  21. Napster blames Microsoft
  22. DRM down under
  23. Charging to browse

February 2006

  1. D&D online
  2. Attack of the patent trolls
  3. CAFTA safe?
  4. Copyright and access to knowledge
  5. GPL v4?
  6. Felten on CD DRM
  7. PowerPoint woes
  8. No ripping says RIAA
  9. Windows Vista: DRM v security
  10. Grid studies climate change
  11. Google feeling the Chinese heat?
  12. A blogger’s family life
  13. Latest issue of JIPL&P out
  14. WTO and GM
  15. Beware of Google Desktop
  16. Linux could still adopt GPL v3
  17. The future is digital
  18. CAFTA in peril
  19. Standing up to the RIAA
  20. IP Comics
  21. The Return of the Lara
  22. Linux kernel will not use GPLv3

January 2006

  1. Porn recognition software?
  2. Yet another Google story
  3. Patenting emoticons in mobile use
  4. Trolls eat Blackberry
  5. Moving up in the ecosystem
  6. Piracy calculator
  7. The truth about the Wikipedia German story
  8. Software Patent Directive round II
  9. Nobody reads my blog
  10. More on GPL v3
  11. GPL v3 draft released
  12. Jacob against software patents
  13. Pledge against DRM
  14. HD-DVD vs Blu-Ray: The fight continues
  15. The high cost of patents
  16. IBM to improve software patent quality
  17. Back from the tropics
  18. Kill the Christmas Blues
  19. Database right review

2005 290

December 2005

  1. Bad software patents again
  2. Creative Commons and real life
  3. alternative wikipedia edited by experts
  4. SCRIPT-ed December issue now online
  5. What does Nature’s Wikipedia study reveal?
  6. Flooding peer-to-peer networks firm fails
  7. If you can’t beat them, sue them
  8. Two studies on open source and public domain
  9. France is planning to enact strict copyright law soon
  10. UK Treasury to conduct IP study
  11. Costa Rica
  12. Creative Commons Scotland licences go live
  13. Build your own web

November 2005

  1. Being innovative is dangerous
  2. Sony DRM: The aftermath
  3. VI Computer Law World Conference
  4. All Your Google Base Are Belong to Us
  5. To boldly go where no patent has gone before
  6. BitTorrent maker against downloads
  7. WSIS: was it worth it?
  8. South Park takes on Scientology
  9. Give them enough rope…
  10. United States keeps the Internet
  11. Virtual Rights
  12. Real life death of virtual characters
  13. Patenting Lives Conference
  14. The 2005 DRM war
  15. Patenting movies?
  16. Coloriuris
  17. EU top judges plea for patent court
  18. God speaks through Firefox, not IE
  19. Viral videos
  20. The First World Trade War

October 2005

  1. Cybersex and MMORPGs
  2. Software patents affect innovation
  3. Cereal killers
  4. SuSE Linux 10
  5. EPIC 2015
  6. Read The Flipping Licence
  7. Google in trouble?
  8. Meet Google, the boy
  9. The Adelphi Charter
  10. Opening lecture at Edinburgh
  11. Google bombing at work
  12. Access to medicines debate back to the table?
  13. Dilbert on software piracy
  14. Google 2084
  15. CIE Report on Creative Commons is out
  16. Measuring “buzz” power in blogs
  17. In the Public Interest
  18. NCC warns against criminalisation of IPR
  19. Modchips: Is the tide is turning?
  20. Hackers jailed
  21. Blog spam flood
  22. Playstation mods declared legal
  23. Privacy concerns
  24. IP day begins
  25. Conference report
  26. Dominican Republic

September 2005

  1. Shoplift, cheat and download
  2. DVD formats: Blue-Ray vs HD-DVD
  3. WIPO Webcasting treaty
  4. IP can make you famous
  5. Oracle software patent: The little man falls!
  6. Online game plague tops BBC News
  7. Welcome to our new students!
  8. Google Print sued
  9. The political economy of reading
  10. Girls are evil
  11. KAPOW! Revenge of ‘City of Heroes’
  12. New issue of SCRIPT-ed now online
  13. Servers down?
  14. Keyboards: The new security threat
  15. Could cyber-trespass kill the net?
  16. Mobile payment system fails
  17. GMail trade mark dispute
  18. There ain’t such thing as a free lunch
  19. Porn is sinful, virus says
  20. Sls
  21. Grokster and KaZaa don’t matter
  22. KaZaa loses case
  23. MusicWorks 2005 Creative Commons debate
  24. Update on “Stealing booty”
  25. The Commonistas Strike Back

August 2005

  1. Pirates of the Multiplex
  2. Network Law: citations
  3. Silly Saturday post
  4. P2P suits, chilling effects, and a last stand
  5. Piracy: Stealing Booty
  6. Kill me if you can
  7. Linux® trade mark
  8. More silliness
  9. WIKIPEDIA NEEDS YOU!
  10. Machinima: Is it legal?
  11. We love to wiki
  12. 54 million Creative Commons pages
  13. Music CD burning is the real threat
  14. Microsoft v iPod? Not really
  15. Patent Commons project announced
  16. And now for something silly…
  17. New DVD DRM revealed
  18. The Box Office is dead
  19. Spyware and identity theft
  20. Snaparazzis and copyright
  21. CIE preliminary report
  22. Technological adoption: Firefox
  23. IP Criminal Enforcement Directive
  24. On the net, nobody knows you’re not a girl
  25. FFII domain taken down

July 2005

  1. Free Software, again
  2. Where are the suits?
  3. Free as in Free Beer, and as in Free Speech
  4. Network Law
  5. Halliburton loses software patent case
  6. French Phishing
  7. The War on Piracy
  8. Open Source water
  9. RSS implementation by Microsoft
  10. Legal downloads triple in 2005
  11. Ranking universities by web presence
  12. Worst. Article. Ever.
  13. FS v CC again
  14. The Software Patent debate goes on
  15. OSS goes corporate
  16. SCRIPT-ed June issue
  17. OSS 2005 Conference
  18. Italy
  19. G8 protests in Edinburgh
  20. Libre Commons
  21. Open Source in league with al-Qaeda
  22. Parliament report on Open Source

June 2005

  1. Grokster
  2. This is the end…
  3. Drm
  4. Science Commons
  5. The day after
  6. Hummocracy
  7. Legal questions in Creative Commons
  8. Live from Harvard!
  9. Boston.
  10. Burning for fun and profit
  11. Debates galore!
  12. OECD music downloads report
  13. What price infringement?
  14. Open vs. Free again
  15. The Open Source patent war has begun
  16. London
  17. Hunting piracy goes against data protection
  18. More discussion about copyright term extension
  19. When entertainment stops being fun
  20. Statistical fallacies in cyberspace
  21. Microsoft loses on software patent
  22. Open Access Law Program
  23. Ironic anti-spam site
  24. Extending copyright terms
  25. And now for something completely different…
  26. IBM and SUN are the real bad guys
  27. Away

May 2005

  1. BitTorrent goes search
  2. Google Print beta site live
  3. Technological solutions vs Law
  4. BitTorrent servers seized by the FBI
  5. Save George, boycott BitTorrent
  6. Software patent debate
  7. Piracy still a problem according to BSA
  8. More on Google’s dominance
  9. It’s Star Wars, man!
  10. This is the end of the Web as we know it…
  11. Thought Thieves
  12. Collecting societies against Creative Commons
  13. BBC opens RSS content
  14. Social roles of virtual communities
  15. Patenting Lives call for papers
  16. U.S. Congress looking at possible patent reform
  17. Open Access 1, Celera Genomics 0
  18. P2P: Still going strong
  19. May the Commons Be With You!

April 2005

  1. Creative Commons FUD
  2. Update on GPL case
  3. DVD protection ruled illegal in France
  4. GPL granted an injunction in Germany
  5. Enter the virtual economy
  6. Google and more privacy threats?
  7. Nigerian scams go glurge
  8. WIPO Seminar on Copyright and Internet Intermediaries
  9. P2P activism, boycott music and DVD sales
  10. Virtual Worlds, New Worlds?
  11. Mixed reaction to Creative Archive
  12. Good reading on open source
  13. P2P traffic unaffected by suits
  14. Creative Archive Licence, a blow to Creative Commons?
  15. IBM continues its good work with software patents
  16. It is all about the content
  17. Another software patent article in Linux Insider
  18. WTO Dispute over online gambling
  19. BILETA 2005
  20. The Chewbacca Defense lives on
  21. Sue them out of business
  22. Lessig visits Edinburgh
  23. April’s Fools: The Aftermath
  24. The unstoppable rise of open access journals

March 2005

  1. Holy lawsuits, Winged Mammal Man!
  2. Busy, busy, busy
  3. Yahoo goes CC
  4. Largest mesh network in … Cork?
  5. Podcasting in the news
  6. Exterminate! Exterminate!
  7. Has AFP won?
  8. Hardware hacking workshop
  9. Google Print is here
  10. Wellcome Trust goes Open Source
  11. Buzz Game: Measuring technology hype
  12. Creative Commons in the news
  13. Lessig on open access law journals
  14. Hacking search engine rankings
  15. Cybercrime is on the increase
  16. SCRIPT-ed new issue online
  17. Pharming the net.
  18. Scottish Universities agree on Open Access
  19. Virtual sweatshops
  20. Observer article
  21. Swedish servers raided, no bits harmed
  22. City of Heroes strikes back
  23. Wireless for the digital divide
  24. Software patents go mainstream
  25. Guess the age
  26. And the prize for the silliest patent goes to…
  27. They did it, they actually did it!
  28. Long Tail economics
  29. 10 years of the web
  30. Lessig on moral rights
  31. Problems with open source licences
  32. State of Play papers available online
  33. Gratuitous llama pics
  34. Costa Rica to ban VoIP
  35. Infamously famous: Should they have privacy?

February 2005

  1. Popularity of Creative Commons licences
  2. What is everybody else reading?
  3. YAWN! Software patents. Again.
  4. eBay to go open source
  5. CA donates software patents to open source
  6. Bullseye Consultants?
  7. $100 laptops to tackle the divide
  8. Cyberstalking or office voyeurism?
  9. Virtual worlds and the law
  10. Another person fired over blog
  11. European Parliament comes through
  12. The drugs don’t work? Sue!
  13. More about software patents in Europe
  14. Loki Torrent goes nuclear
  15. Jurisdiction problems
  16. Software patents latest
  17. Patenting lives
  18. Games in court
  19. P2P traffic: the facts
  20. Yet another bad software patent
  21. “I sue dead people”
  22. LL.M. in Innovation and Technology Law
  23. BSA: Such a class act
  24. Downloading shows is the new MP3
  25. Copyright law gone mad again?
  26. MP3.com will offer DRM free music
  27. Open source in danger from software patents
  28. New search engine.
  29. More IP protection… WHY?

January 2005

  1. Norwegian student liable for sharing music
  2. RIAA sues 717 new P2P users
  3. New P2P technology available!
  4. More on the McAfee patent.
  5. McAfee obtains firewall patent
  6. Sun offers patents for open source developers
  7. Patents shoot, Poland saves (again)!
  8. Firefox increasing market share
  9. DVD rental annoyance.
  10. RSS legal journals
  11. Is wireless dangerous?
  12. Fishing for software patents
  13. Legal music sales rose in 2004
  14. Jail for P2P developers
  15. Balkanization of the net continues
  16. Broken patent system?
  17. Yet another open biotechnology article
  18. Attack of the zombies
  19. Man fired over blog
  20. Interesting new campaign in the U.S.
  21. Torrent is not dead
  22. Software patents in Europe
  23. IBM opens software patents for OSS developers
  24. Bittorrent sites shut down
  25. We are back

2004 81

December 2004

  1. Aharonian sues for software patents
  2. New issue of SCRIPT-ed
  3. US Supreme Court readies P2P debate
  4. Costa Rican canopy tour patent troubles
  5. Holidays
  6. Marvel sues City of Heroes
  7. Digital trail
  8. Cheap Windows targets Asian markets
  9. Isn’t wireless wonderful?
  10. Open Biotechnology
  11. The year of the blog
  12. Digital divide in the U.S.

November 2004

  1. All your code is belong to us
  2. The war against piracy
  3. Two stories relevant to music downloads
  4. Heirs of famous sculptor ask for royalties
  5. Hey, Lawyers, leave them kids alone!
  6. Open access debate in FT.com
  7. Digital divide solutions… with Linux
  8. Authentication in Half-Life 2 works
  9. Kazaa v 3.0 offers internet calling
  10. James Boyle on the database right
  11. Software to tackle art imitations
  12. Open Source superstars against software patents
  13. Stricter copyright protection in the United States
  14. Cloning ban banned by UN
  15. Linux patent scare is FUD
  16. Google Academics
  17. New virus hits computers
  18. Internet porn is addictive
  19. OFT loses credit card test
  20. Microsoft using WTO for enforcement
  21. Poland saves Europe from software patents!
  22. They are sorry
  23. MPAA sues P2P movie sharing users
  24. Chemical Rights Management?
  25. Meet the patent hoarders
  26. More about searches
  27. Novell sues Microsoft.
  28. So, downloads do affect sales
  29. Students Against Copyright
  30. Microsoft goes searching
  31. ECJ erodes the database right
  32. Firefox 1.0 released!
  33. Post Office joins Napster!
  34. Dubs strikes back
  35. Torrent rules the web
  36. Tesco opens music download site
  37. German courts erode eBay purchases
  38. The plot thickens
  39. Blogger down
  40. Yet another stupid software patent.
  41. Spammers convicted!
  42. Another very interesting scam.
  43. Interesting variation of a Nigerian 419 scam.
  44. Spam wants to regain their name
  45. Another study about music downloads and sales
  46. There goes the neighbourhood
  47. BAILII’s Birthday

October 2004

  1. Blogger in trouble over blog
  2. The Lancet estimates 100,000 Iraqi civilian deaths
  3. Creative Commons article in The Guardian
  4. Judge Cameron Lecture now online
  5. More about Bush’s website international blocking
  6. Spammer trial begins
  7. Bush doesn’t like them foreigners!
  8. Interesting eBay case
  9. European domain name goes live
  10. Music download case in Australia
  11. Wikipedia Rulez, OK?
  12. CD sales and music downloads
  13. Fun eBay listings.
  14. Windows v Linux in security
  15. Dream job!
  16. New Accronym
  17. Phishing blues
  18. Software patents conference
  19. Judge Cameron lecture
  20. Nvidia in patent trouble
  21. Cory Doctorow lecture
  22. Welcome!

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