2007–2026
1,261 posts
2026 23
October 2026
- Everything I know about AI regulation I learned from music videos
- Recreating Adobe: AI and the limits of software copyright
September 2026
- Some things I believe about AI, until further notice
- V/H/S SCP: When fandom meets law and Creative Commons
August 2026
- Are we really living through a technology backlash?
- GEMA v Suno: Another landmark AI copyright case from Germany
July 2026
- Fahrenheit 451 or Rainbows End? AI, books, and copyright law
- OpenAI wins first battle in ongoing Indian copyright lawsuit
- Why does AI in science fiction so often miss the mark?
- Androids do dream of electric sheep, so where next for copyright?
June 2026
- Smart glasses, augmented reality, and always-on surveillance
- The under-16 social media ban and the rise of “show me your papers” internet
- Fable and the impending AI Cold War
- Copyright implications of super-intelligence
May 2026
April 2026
March 2026
- Why are people adopting AI to write?
- An end to the input-output dichotomy in AI copyright? Like Company v Google takes an unexpected turn
- No, the US Supreme Court did not declare that AI works cannot be copyrighted
February 2026
January 2026
2025 24
December 2025
November 2025
- The persistence of memorization
- Victory for GEMA in Germany against OpenAI
- Getty Images v Stability AI: A landmark High Court ruling on AI, copyright, and trade marks
- Social media sucks, but what’s the alternative?
October 2025
- From broadcast to self-cast: The future of AI-made entertainment
- Sora 2 and the end of copyright as we know it
September 2025
August 2025
July 2025
- Revisiting copyright infringement in AI inputs and outputs
- AI and Copyright in the UK
- How AI is breaking traditional remuneration models
June 2025
May 2025
April 2025
- The Appstore Killed the Website Star
- Doomscrolling Blues: Reclaiming positivity in social media
- How many people are using generative AI on a daily basis? A Gemini report
March 2025
February 2025
- The end of the student essay? Reasoning AIs are starting to cross into pass territory
- Snow Crash and the Networked State
- What’s going on with AI copyright authorship?
January 2025
2024 27
December 2024
- UK Government publishes consultation on Copyright and AI
- I asked o1 to write a blog post about AI sentience
- Can a Dutch case about RSS teach us anything about AI copyright?
November 2024
October 2024
September 2024
- LAION wins copyright infringement lawsuit in German court
- Copyright for Dummies
- A short history of the Copyright Wars
- A short guide to the Copyright Wars
- Fade to grey: The end of good vs evil in fiction?
August 2024
- Telegram rehashes some old Internet regulation debates
- Snoopy, Mario, Pikachu, and reproduction in generative AI
July 2024
June 2024
May 2024
- The Scarlett Letter: Impersonation, publicity rights, and AI assistants
- The rise and rise of the online content creation industry
- Moonbirds and CC0: Problems with NFT licensing and the public domain
April 2024
- To delve or not to delve: AI detection made easy?
- The end of the online mob and the end of shared reality
March 2024
- Forgotten Dystopias: The Godlike AI That Time Forgot
- The EU AI Act and copyright
- VCRs, tape recorders, and AI
February 2024
- Do you own your voice? The challenges of voice cloning
- Barcelona court rules in favour of defendant in NFT metaverse copyright case
January 2024
2023 26
December 2023
- Chinese court declares that AI-generated image has copyright
- Copyright lawsuit threatens reggaeton genre
- High Court rules that Getty v Stability AI case can proceed
- Spotify, surveillance, and the price of music
November 2023
October 2023
- Large language models and copyright, what next?
- Asking whether AI outputs are art is asking the wrong question
- It’s time to leave Twitter
September 2023
- French lawmakers propose new copyright law about generative AI
- Can Bill Willingham release ‘Fables’ into the public domain?
- Will we ever be able to detect AI usage?
July 2023
June 2023
May 2023
April 2023
March 2023
- Putting Bard and ChatGPT to the test
- Looking for a model of the Metaverse
- Openness, AI, and the changing creative landscape
February 2023
January 2023
2022 19
November 2022
- Court in Barcelona issues injunction against Mango’s NFT use in the metaverse
- An AI wrote this blog post about AI copyright
- There ain’t such thing as the metaverse
October 2022
September 2022
August 2022
July 2022
- Who owns tokens and other digital assets?
- DALL·E goes commercial, but what about copyright?
- Crypto Winter, or Crypto Ice Age?
June 2022
May 2022
April 2022
February 2022
January 2022
2021 18
December 2021
- The interface between NFTs and the public domain
- Challenges and opportunities in the future of gaming
November 2021
September 2021
August 2021
June 2021
- Is GitHub’s Copilot potentially infringing copyright?
- Can Sir Tim Berners-Lee sell an NFT of the WWW code?
- El Salvador passes law that makes Bitcoin legal tender
May 2021
April 2021
- A new twist in the NFT saga: Emily Ratajkowski re-appropriates Richard Prince
- What data does Spotify hold about you?
March 2021
- What do you buy when you buy an NFT?
- One year with Long Covid
- Copyfraud and copyright infringement in NFTs
- Can copyright teach us anything about NFTs?
February 2021
January 2021
2020 15
December 2020
November 2020
September 2020
August 2020
- Diary of a Long Covid patient
- The stock market looks like the Bitcoin economy, and that’s not a good thing
July 2020
May 2020
- Red Pills and NPCs: How geek culture became political
- Zombies and killer robots: has our imagination failed to prepare us for a pandemic?
April 2020
March 2020
February 2020
January 2020
2019 20
December 2019
November 2019
October 2019
- What is Bitcoin good for?
- Is a popular machine learning text tool trained using copyrighted material?
September 2019
- Should there be copyright protection for artificial intelligence works?
- Cyber-dystopianism: The Internet seen through the lens of nightmares
July 2019
June 2019
May 2019
April 2019
- Can we ever regulate online spaces?
- Online harms white paper misses the mark
- 20 years on, The Matrix remains influential
March 2019
- Christchurch and Internet regulation
- Using Creative Commons images to train artificial intelligence
- The politics behind the proposed copyright directive
February 2019
January 2019
2018 24
December 2018
October 2018
September 2018
- What’s next for the proposed Copyright Directive?
- The dangers hidden in the proposed Copyright Directive
- Walkaway: A review
August 2018
- Fake GNUs: Keep politics out of open source software licences
- Copyright and the blockchain
- The Internet is making us stupid
- Is there such a thing as Internet politics?
July 2018
- Should we have any expectation of privacy in public spaces?
- What can the Copyright Directive vote tell us about the state of digital rights?
- Mandatory Internet filtering and The War on Memes
June 2018
- Europe on the verge of voting nefarious digital publishing right
- Why you should still support Costa Rica for the World Cup
May 2018
- The balkanization of the Internet
- Robots behaving badly: legal responsibility in the age of artificial intelligence
April 2018
March 2018
- Facebook did not kill privacy, it was already dead
- Is the blockchain hype over?
- Do memes infringe copyright?
February 2018
- Why are we still struggling with hyper-linking and copyright law?
- The Memification of knowledge: Is the Internet making us less informed?
- Crypto Utopia in Puerto Rico: Digital evangelism or disaster capitalism?
January 2018
2017 21
December 2017
November 2017
October 2017
September 2017
August 2017
- The great free speech online debate
- Should academics try to engage the public?
- US court declares GPL is a contract
July 2017
June 2017
- Should robot artists be given copyright protection?
- European court rules on legal nature of torrent links in Pirate Bay case
- Whatever happened to our dream of an empowering Internet (and how to get it back)
May 2017
April 2017
- The Internet of Things could change property as we know it
- European Court of Human Rights revisits once more intermediary liability
March 2017
- The ongoing war on encryption
- US regulator makes important decision about Bitcoin derivatives
- US court dismisses important Creative Commons non-commercial case
February 2017
January 2017
2016 34
December 2016
November 2016
October 2016
September 2016
- European Court rules on open wifi
- EU Commission proposes new right for press publications
- European court declares that linking can infringe copyright
August 2016
- The future of media and some implications for regulation
- Viral cow video copied in ad campaign, but is it copyright infringement?
July 2016
- Wikileaks: Who watches the watchmen?
- Extending data protection rights to virtual spaces
- Pokémon Go and the law of augmented reality
- In defence of Creative Commons
June 2016
- Blockchains and the challenges of decentralization
- Living in a filter bubble
- Passwords are becoming more vulnerable over time
- Will digital rights ever make it to the political mainstream?
May 2016
April 2016
- Can you copyright the Klingon language?
- European Court rules on copyright jurisdiction and private copying
- Two Gikii events announced
- Can you ever remove nasty internet content about yourself?
March 2016
- No, taking a Snapchat screenshot will probably not land you in jail
- Cat selfies: the next copyright battle?
- Court rules copyright is infringed by 8 second video clips
- IP and IT implications of a Brexit vote
- EU Commission adopts Privacy Shield
February 2016
- Could European cookie law be a threat to cybersecurity?
- 20 years of the Declaration of Independence of Cyberspace
- European Court of Human Rights revisits intermediary liability
January 2016
2015 51
December 2015
November 2015
- Private copying is illegal again in the UK
- Anonymous can’t defeat Islamic State, but here’s what it could achieve
- Cyberwar and the myth of the Hollywood Hacker
- No, the EU is not going to make hyperlinks illegal
- First thoughts on the draft Investigatory Powers Bill
October 2015
- Podcasting is better than ever! A list of favourites
- Australian court rules that Google is liable for defamatory links
- US Court interprets copyleft clause in Creative Commons licenses
- Bassel Khartabil, Syrian prisoner who lives and risks dying for a free Internet
- European Court declares data protection Safe Harbor invalid
September 2015
- Legal analysis of the PETA monkey selfie suit
- Army of Lame Ducks: Is copyright irrelevant in the viral age?
- Gikii 2015 Berlin Programme
August 2015
- Can Ashley Madison use copyright law to stop leaked data?
- File sharers could face 10 years in jail in the UK
- No, iTunes is not illegal under UK copyright law
- Forget Bitcoin, the blockchain is where it’s at
July 2015
- Whatever happened to the Long Tail?
- Do androids dream of electric copyright? Ownership of Deep Dream images
- High Court takes second step in making it illegal to rip CDs
- High Court declares that emergency surveillance legislation is unlawful
- No, the UK government is not about to ban Whatsapp
- An asynchronous stranger in a synchronous land
- Did Taylor Swift save the music industry?
June 2015
- What is wrong with Falkvinge’s copyright critique
- English Court takes step towards making private copying illegal again
- European Court of Human Rights holds news portal liable for user comments
- The Silk Road trial: lessons for Internet regulation
May 2015
- Open letter to UK Parliament about surveillance
- It’s time to get rid of the hyperlink in academic references
- The right to be forgotten one year on, what next?
April 2015
- Should copyright terms be shorter?
- Could you patent a human clone?
- What is wrong with John Oliver’s interview with Edward Snowden
- European Court decides about linking to infringing materials (or does it?)
- UK Court of Appeal confirms tort of privacy in Google v Vidal-Hall
- Cyberlaw April Fool’s Day 2015
March 2015
- New top level domains and the great Internet gold rush
- Living in a remixed world (TEDx talk)
- Time to rethink a flat rate for online content? European court decides on levies
- The curious case of Technoviking
February 2015
- Looking at Citizenfour through Internet regulation
- The monopolistic Internet
- Katy Perry jumps the shark, makes copyright claim over 3D print model
- Patent trolls playing the system
January 2015
2014 48
December 2014
November 2014
- Should Facebook spy on us to curb terrorism?
- 10 years of TechnoLlama
- Misogyny in gaming
- Incitement to violence and freedom of speech online
- The Internet is full of terrorists, and other tales of woe
October 2014
- UK implements licensing scheme for orphan works
- On the right to be forgotten and the right to remember
- Who wants to be forgotten?
- Could naked celebrity pictures bring about a global right to be forgotten?
September 2014
- The sharing economy is anything but
- Does playing games lead to depression and suicide?
- The U2 iTunes release is an industry-changing moment
- The return of cyber-libertarianism
- No, I do not believe in the multi-stakeholder model
- Call for papers: Law and Law Breaking in Game of Thrones
August 2014
July 2014
- Should a person go to prison for stealing virtual goods?
- Competitive gaming shows why some IP business models are outdated
- Academic publishers draft and release their own Open Access licences
- TechnoLlama has a new look
- While everyone was obsessed with glassholes, wearable computing happened
June 2014
- Has the multi-stakeholder model failed us?
- A beginner’s guide to supporting Costa Rica
- Gikii 2014 registration and papers
- European court rules that viewing web pages does not infringe copyright
- Has streaming sunk the pirate brand?
- UK implements important exception for data mining
May 2014
- Bitcoin regulatory developments
- You have the right to be forgotten
- Yes, Creative Commons does make sense
April 2014
- WIPO study on copyright relinquishment released
- Whatever happened to DVDs?
- Gikii 2014 Call for Papers
- European court allows website blocking
March 2014
- Turkey goes to war against the Internet
- The rise, fall, and rise of Popcorn Time
- Is Popcorn Time really immune from copyright liability?
- Will lack of regulation kill Bitcoin?
February 2014
- European court declares that linking does not infringe copyright
- How can we battle against state surveillance?
January 2014
2013 55
December 2013
- Functionality in software is not protected by copyright
- CrunchBase reaches agreement with People+
- Creative Commons releases licence for intergovernmental organisations
- Why does law enforcement ignore the virtual economy?
November 2013
- How I see my social media life (animated gif edition)
- UK court issues more blocking orders
- Creative Commons 4.0 has been released
- Analysis of key copyright provisions in the TPP
- AOL threatens startup for using content released under Creative Commons
- Internet revolution, or more of the same?
October 2013
- The Lord of the Internet
- Has the Blockbuster killed the Long Tail?
- Special BILETA issue of SCRIPTed
- Insane in the game: Is this the worst software patent ever?
- Can we rebuild the Internet?
September 2013
August 2013
- SCRIPTed August 2013
- Hardware destruction for fun and profit (or the strange case of the missing hard drives)
- What is a terrorist?
- Gikii programme and registration now open
- Geek politics
- Whatever happened to our dream of a free Internet?
July 2013
- Voluntary copyright relinquishment survey
- How can Twitter deal with trolls?
- Social networks: Guilt by association?
- Anatomy of a Skype hack attack
- Are fan translations an infringement of copyright?
June 2013
- In the land of the morally blind, the blind lead the way
- Desmintiendo el mito de la declaratoria de derechos de autor en Facebook
- Privacy is dead, the NSA leaks just alerted us to the fact
- Has Instagram replaced Kodak?
May 2013
- Fan fiction goes legit
- 3D printed gun poses awkward regulatory questions
- Has the UK abolished copyright? Analysis of new orphan work legislation
- Building privacy filters against constant surveillance
April 2013
- Why CISPA is a global problem
- The sweetest hat ever! Some thoughts on the legality of the Firefly Hat dispute
- SCRIPTed is 10 volumes old
- We need decentralized cryptocurrencies, we just don’t need Bitcoin
- Analysis of UK/EU law on data mining in higher education institutions
- Ban the Glass?
March 2013
- Is the Internet under attack?
- Of tweets, sexism, vigilantes and dongles
- Privacy is dead
- Where is the world’s content hosted?
- The Centrality Menace
- How effective are blocking orders against torrent sites?
February 2013
- Cyber-warfare: The new Red Scare
- Can your country be knocked out of the Internet?
- The Pirate Bay Away From Keyboard: A review
- Virtual currency and virtual property revisited
- Argentinian court calls Cuevana blocking request “broad and disproportionate”
- An update and changes on the horizon
January 2013
2012 89
December 2012
- A year in the life of a blog
- Instagram’s new Terms of Service
- SCRIPTed December 2012
- Is the Internet free and open?
- Is the UN trying to take over the Internet? Part II
November 2012
- Yet another Facebook legal hoax
- Twitter Law
- Report by European body cautious about “right to be forgotten”
- Financing open projects
- Showcasing Creative Commons filmmaking
- Amusing UK-based 419 scam
October 2012
- The War of Things
- A look at the Bitcoin network transaction history
- Do trolls have privacy rights?
- Autores, fotocopias y educación en Costa Rica
September 2012
- Licensing Options for Digitization
- iOS 6 maps
- Is Panama about to pass the worst copyright law in history?
- Facebook privacy statement hoax
- Do avatars dream of digital rights?
August 2012
- Defending non-commercial licences
- In search of an open Internet
- 7 Reasons Why Numbered Lists Are Bad for Blogging
- The Rise and Fall of Wikileaks
- Are smart buildings the next cyber-threat?
- SCRIPTed August 2012
- The cloud is making us insecure
- Twitter crimes: Is it time for a social media Bill of Rights?
July 2012
- Patent troll sues Minecraft maker and other game developers
- The lost decade of digital music sales
- Is this the first anti-Wikileaks law?
- The Return of the Pirates
- Declaración de Libertad del Internet
- UN Human Rights Council promotes Internet rights
- GikII 2012 Call for Papers
- Internet Freedom for the few?
- If ACTA passes this week, nothing will happen
- Cloud failure and the myth of the decentralized Web
June 2012
- Augmented reality law
- Australia will not adopt ACTA, yet
- UNCTAD supports sustainable IP models
- Virtual Heartbreak Hotel
- You can get paid with Creative Commons too! Why Mira Sundara Rajan gets it wrong
- Crowdfunding needs a curator
- Positive protesting
- ACTA: What are they protesting against?
- Is crowdfunding the future of music?
- Who controls the Internet?
May 2012
- What’s up with software copyright? Contrasting Oracle v Google and SAS v WPL
- Should jailed convicts have access to social media?
- Creative Commons statement to the Committee on IP and Development at WIPO
- US judge finds that IP addresses cannot be used to identify infringers
- Chronicle of a Block Foretold: UK ISPs ordered to block Pirate Bay
April 2012
- CISPA is a threat to the world
- Passwords and cybersecurity
- Text of the Costa Rican ruling declaring Internet as a fundamental right
- Assassin’s Creed maker sued for copyright infringement
- In defence of NonCommercial clauses
- SCRIPTed April 2012
- Lessons to be learned from the social media patent war
- Council of Europe adopts human rights framework for social media and search engines
- April’s Fools update
March 2012
- Is the UN trying to take over the Internet?
- El ocaso del puntocom
- Letters from the Internet governance front
- Council of Europe releases strong user-centred document on Internet governance
- More on Pinterest and copyright
- ICANN 43
- What has the Internet ever done for us?
February 2012
- Pinterest and copyright
- We, the grumpy old Web
- Anonymous and the decline of individualism
- Domain name seizures: The end of the dotcom dominance?
- SCRIPT Conference on IT and IP Law
- European Court of Justice rules against filtering (again)
- TPP: Welcome to the global war on intermediaries
- Is disturbed by Facebook Timeline
- New look
- Can a court order stop a torrent file?
- So what’s up with ACTA?
- Dutch Supreme Court says virtual goods are property
- Internet jurisdiction revisited
January 2012
2011 82
December 2011
November 2011
- ECJ’s Advocate General favours interoperability in Europe
- Moore or Miller? Politics through graphic novels
- European Court of Justice rules against indiscriminate intermediary filtering
- Creative Commons statement on the public domain at WIPO
- Klout is not illegal
- Enabling Creativity in the Digital Environment
- Creative Commons statement at WIPO Committee on Development and IP
- Stop Online Piracy Act: Putting the extra in extraterritoriality
- The problem with Anonymous
- Open source is winning where it counts, so where to next?
October 2011
- Technophobia as regulation
- Enabling Creativity in the Digital Environment
- A week to reflect on openness versus walled gardens
- Dutch ruling sends intermediary liability back to the 90s
- German court enforces Creative Commons licence
- Apple is now Public Enemy No 1
September 2011
- CC 4.0, an end to porting Creative Commons licences?
- Live from Warsaw
- The Washington Declaration on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest
- Network analysis deflates Bitcoin’s anonymity myth
August 2011
- Global Congress on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest
- Persistence of memory
- Has social media peaked?
- Why net neutrality is not a priority in developing countries
- SCRIPTed August 2011
- When copyright collecting societies act against artists
- Can social media spread anarchy?
- The danger of filter bubbles
- When patents attack
- Are hacking sanctions proportional to the crime?
July 2011
- Social propaganda
- SCRIPTed covers
- Newzbin: Internet filtering and file-sharing
- McLuhan and technophobia
- Hacking and DDoS: lessons from network resilience
- Intermediary liability: because you’re worth it (L’Oreal v eBay)
- Twitter and FB login enabled
- The revolution will be webcast
- Dangerous times for the Facebook experiment
June 2011
- Gikii programme and app
- BitTorrent in patent dispute
- Is Bitcoin legal?
- Amina and the white man’s burden
- On the Internet, nobody knows you’re a meme
- Is Twitter bringing us closer together?
- Why Android will dominate the smartphone market in the long run
- Lodsys sues app developers
May 2011
- Publishing a commercial book with Creative Commons
- Should we have any expectations of privacy in the Internet age?
- Lodsys and app patent disputes
- Hargreaves report published
- The Sony Playstation Network hack and Anonymous
- Creative Commons and the enemies of creators’ rights
- Is Portugal about to make Creative Commons illegal?
- 2011 Special 301 list released
April 2011
- Software patent could threaten open source
- Llama Font
- The beginning of the end for three strikes?
- SCRIPTed April 2011
- Should law enforcement pursue game theft?
- Why have your friends gone quiet on Facebook?
- April’s Fools in Tech Roundup
March 2011
- 10 Internet Rights and Principles launched
- Special 301, special interests, and developing countries
- Judge rejects Google Book Settlement
- Looking for buzzwords
- Legalities of jailbreaking the PS3
- WIPO and the future of copyright
- DRM and Region Coding encourage piracy
February 2011
- Australian court denies appeal in landmark ISP liability case
- Gikii 2011 CFP
- Negotiable privacy, or why I’m coming back to Facebook
- Kinect – Licensing implications of open hardware projects
- Anonymous, dead or alive?
- The Daily: Will it work?
- The first Internet revolution?
January 2011
2010 143
December 2010
- SCRIPTed December 2010
- MDY v Blizzard: Terms of Use and copyright infringement
- The Internet is dangerous
- Internet regulation and Wikileaks: What have we learned so far?
- The IP implications of 3D printing
- Wikileaks: So, this is what cyberwar looks like
November 2010
- ORG Needs You!
- Can Wikileaks be stopped?
- Do Indexing and hyperlinks infringe copyright?
- Is this the most ironic YouTube blocking ever?
- ACTA turns out to be a damp squib
- Obscurity
- Anonymous IP manifesto
- The week Twitter became a liability
- When bots go shopping
- Why sue when you can use social media?
- Ministry of Sound gives up P2P claims
- Belgian Court recognises CC licences
October 2010
- Is Firesheep illegal?
- Is it time to take Anonymous seriously?
- ACTA in the UK
- Poetic licence
- Will the ebook kill the book?
- New map of online communities
- ISPs set to fight future IP data disclosure in the UK
- Costa Rican court declares the Internet as a fundamental right
September 2010
- ACS:Law: This is what regulatory failure looks like
- ACS:Law: When bad things happen to bad people
- Symposium: Copyright in Sport Broadcasts under assault?
- U.S. to escalate War on Piracy at domain name level
- Twitter exploit cripples website
- Digital Economy Act: Content industry to foot the bill
- ACTA update
- xkcd on password reuse
- Technology changes things, get over it!
- Aggregators and the long tail of content
- Book wordle
- Walled gardens and forbidden cities
August 2010
- Digital Interactive symposium programme
- The open Web vs the closed Internet
- SCRIPTed Issue 7:2 2010
- Slow August
- BlackBerry vs The World
- Blogging, anonymity and identity
July 2010
- Announcing Digital Interactive Symposium
- Landmark software copyright case in the UK
- Mob (a near-future science fiction story)
- Twitter, strangers and monocultures
- Escalating the war on piracy: domain names
- How will ACTA affect UK copyright law?
- eBay sued over payment system patents
- Geolocation, sex and innovation
- Does Creative Commons need more court cases?
- Censorship and jurisdiction in Turkey
- SSCL Lecture Eben Moglen in Edinburgh
- Evidence we’re back in the 80s
- GikII V
June 2010
- You Are Not a Gadget – a review
- Intellectual property and fashion
- Flickr, stock photography and Creative Commons
- Should governments encourage open source?
- Limewire, ISOHunt, PirateBay and the future of P2P
- Rock, paper, scissors, lizard, Spock
- WIPO study on the public domain published
- Why do academics write?
- GikII 2010 Programme
- Creativity, reward and motivation
- Digital divide or mental divide?
- On the road
- COMMUNIA Conference 2010
May 2010
- Google Book Settlement prezi
- Android v iPhone
- Openness matters
- Microsoft sues cloud computing provider for patent infringement
- Does Spain need to change its copyright law?
- Can you quit Facebook?
- Moglen on privacy and the cloud
- Twitter, influence and politics
- Cleanternet
- Why ACTA? The shifting international IP political scene
- My TED Talk
- Copyright in money?
April 2010
- WIPO CDIP5 Day 5
- WIPO CDIP5 Day 4
- WIPO CDIP5 Day 3
- WIPO CDIP5 Morning Day Two
- Creative Commons statement at WIPO CDIP
- Committee on Development and Intellectual Property (CDIP) Morning Day One
- Geneva
- Socrates and Free Software
- ACTA and intermediaries
- Patenting maths
- Information self-determination in the Google Age
- What’s the effect of piracy to the economy? Nobody knows!
- SCRIPTed April 2010 published
- Musicians pro-piracy
- Beware the technophiles
- Acquiring souls, one contract at a time
- Digital Economy Bill passes
- Quis custodiet Wikileaks?
- Wikileaks and the dream of the open web
- The geek civil war
March 2010
- Usenet filesharing defeated in court
- Long Tail or Tall Tales?
- How not to suck with PowerPoint
- Twitter: the conference killer app
- Boss buttons
- PowerPoint and kittens
- Critique of the ICC’s report on the digital economy in Europe
- Linking to P2P content declared legal in Spain
- Copyright in landmarks
- Darth Google
- Copyright infringement is not theft
- Do perverts have rights?
- What’s up with the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement?
- Web archiving woes
- GikII V Workshop Call for Papers
- Libraries cost book industry billions
- OK Go video goes viral thanks to embedding
- The Internet in numbers
- Looking at Facebook’s news feed patent
February 2010
- Stallman will not sign Public Domain Manifesto
- Back in business!
- The Internet? It will never work!
- Encouraging open source could land you in trouble
- Music industry shoots itself in the foot… again
- Defamation online revisited
- Attack of the techno-sceptics, part deux
- The day Facebook vanished
- The Muppets meet social media
- ISP liability to get ECJ hearing
- Landmark ISP liability case decided in Australia
- There ain’t such thing as privacy
January 2010
- The iPad: revolution, revulsion, or just silly?
- Is deep-packet inspection a criminal offence?
- Letters from the ISP front
- The Public Domain Manifesto
- Update on Costa Rican sugar trade row
- Edinburgh ORG meeting reminder
- The war on storage?
- How did OiNK get away?
- Has the U.S. threatened Costa Rican sugar if IP law is not approved?
- Cyberwarfare 2010: This time it’s personal!
2009 146
December 2009
- SCRIPTed December 2009
- In Costa Rica
- Beta testing legislation
- Computing and climate change
- Debating the Digital Economy Bill: Exercise in futility?
November 2009
- How to use non-commercial content commercially
- I love xkcd
- Cookie Law: regulatory failure
- The Great Intermediary War
- Freedom to be obnoxious?
- Digital Economy Bill and orphan works
- Queen announces disconnection for file-sharing
- Academia v Business
- Nano postmodern Feminist carbon sustainable robots micro blogging cold-fusion
- IGF webcast
- ACTA: How not to negotiate wide-ranging bilateral agreements
- Downloading music, an event
- Baillie Estates v Du Pont: Contracting through email
October 2009
- Sometimes I feel like somebody’s watching me
- Three strikes legislation confirmed in the UK
- Copyright orphanage
- The Broadband Divide
- Some newspapers simply do not get it
- Cogito, ergo blog
- Censorship UK, the saga continues
- Keeping regulatory hands off the web, a report
- MP tables Early Day Motion on three strikes
- Blu-ray on the PC: DRM failure
- Spotify and PRS discuss copyright in Edinburgh
- Should online intermediaries be liable for sexual assaults?
- Notes on Creative Commons
September 2009
- On deleting emails
- Beware of geeks bearing gifts
- Google Book Settlement on standby
- There ain’t such a thing as privacy
- It’s Gikii!
- Has Web 2.0 outdated copyright law?
- You are what your network eats
- Of love and spambots
- The “full extras” war against piracy
- The printed media’s war on the Internet rages on
- Criminalise patent infringement?
August 2009
- Gikii 4 programme
- Scrap Digital Britain, three-strikes coming our way
- SCRIPTed August 2009
- Dawn of the DDoS
- Reasons why Linux is still not mainstream
- Will the new Venezuelan media law criminalise online opinion?
July 2009
- DRM Wars: Round Two
- Trolls, news and social media
- National Portrait Gallery copyright row
- Smells like tweet spirit
- It’s the business model, stupid!
- Sex 2.0
- Remember a world without collective copyright management?
- Facebook privacy shocker
- Printed press, RIP
- Open Database Licence released
June 2009
- If you build it, they won’t come
- Downloads and sales: where is the evidence?
- State of Play VI
- Deadlines
- Digital Britain
- Leave Google alone!
- Harry Potter involved in another copyright dispute
- Declaring email bankruptcy
- The cyber-socialism debate
- French constitutional court strikes down three-strikes
- Viking pirates ahoy!
- Three strikes and you’re slow
- Avatars behaving badly
- French report on targetted advertising
May 2009
- Extending moral rights
- Barbarians of the world, unite and take over
- Iran blocks Facebook
- Wikipedia chooses Creative Commons
- Irrationality and ethics
- Respecting fan use
- Luddism 2.0
- UK Copyright industry intent on forcing 3-strikes
- Has European Commission gone too far against Microsoft?
- UK IPO approves patent for software as such
- Why I’m quitting Facebook
- Three-strikes rejected by European Parliament, sort of
- Is the exponential growth of the internet sustainable ?
- Creative Commons study on noncommercial use
April 2009
- Virtual woes, or whatever happened to Second Life?
- Phorm strikes back
- Twitter panic
- The internet is for trolls
- Old media v new media
- Cyberwarfare
- TechnoLlama has moved!
- The end of piracy?
- User-Generated Gaming
- Pirate Bay 4 to serve criminal sentence
- SCRIPTed April 2009
- Amazonfail: cyber-censorship, cyber-hype, or YHBT?
- GikII Call for Papers
- If Bill Gates was on Facebook…
- Phorm launch in the horizon
- Is Google an amoral monopoly?
- The cameras are at the gates!
- Twitting humble pie
March 2009
- Are blogs killing traditional journalism?
- 5th COMMUNIA workshop
- PRS not horsing around with copyright
- Blurring the real and virtual boundaries
- Software patent workshop reminder
- Do androids dream of electric sheep?
- SCRIPTed conference deadline
- UN-star Galactica
- UK public sector websites to contain user comments
- New report on the state of global Cyber-censorship released
- YouTube starts blocking music videos in the UK
- Why seeding is good for you
- Open source, file systems and patents
- Book Review: Rainbows End
- Amazon to restrict read-aloud functions
February 2009
- It’s GikII time
- Eircom to filter out pirate sites
- The DRM war was won, but…
- Dissecting a virtual world phishing attack
- 5th COMMUNIA Workshop, London
- Pirate Bay scores first hit on trial
- Windows 7 DRM edition
- Will reading aloud infringe copyright?
- Has the Ice Stone melted?
- Attack of a gold spammer
- Update on Bad Science row
- Why all computer security is flawed…
- Bad Science meets Bad Copyright
- SCRIPTed Conference Programme
- What is digital content?
- Digital Britain or Digital Blunder?
January 2009
- Starcraft 101
- Facebook murder
- Geophysical survey of World of Warcraft
- Is technology making us stupid?
- New Windows virus infects millions of computers
- Unfortunate name for rip off
- A geek in the White House
- iPhone infringes patent
- iTunes finally is DRM free
- Academia.edu
- NCSoft sued for avatar patent infringement
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December 2008
- Cinema-style age ratings coming to the Internet?
- SCRIPTed December Issue 2008
- IE security flaws
- FBI scam
- Science Commons videos
- Censorship UK
- Pirates of the Amazon
- Amazon.co.uk offers DRM-free MP3s
- To twit or not to twit
- One track mind
November 2008
- The internet is for gay porn…
- Bio in 6 words
- Jury decides on cyberbullying case
- Cybercriminals making a killing on magic swords
- Smells like teen suicide
- Always look on the bright side of YouTube
- Obama and Creative Commons
- Patenting patent trolling
- The Matrix runs on Windows
- The evils of virtual worlds
- Not The New York Times
- QR Code
- Bilski: an end to stupid patents?
- Googleverse: Utopia or Dystopia?
- A progressive IP and IT policy in the US?
- SCRIPTed Conference CFP
- User Generated Election
- Open source invention
October 2008
- Twittering terrorists
- Woman jailed for killing avatar
- Flame wars: defamation or assault?
- Rock On (Book Review)
- *Bleeping* patents
- Palin and the llama
- Virtual currencies stifled by regulation?
- The global copyfight rages on
- Question of Sport
- COMMUNIA Workshop in Amsterdam
- Symbian software patent appeal rejected
- Financial crisis in one picture
- Language matters
- Software Cultures Hardware Laws
- Financial spam
September 2008
- EndNote sues open source reference competitor
- GikIII ends
- Gikiii 2
- Bubbles bursting, credits crunching, unweaving webs?
- Hacking Palin
- Happy "Talk like a pirate day"
- The Internet is for Censorship
- Palin baby name generator
- The predictive power of computers
- Ontological insecurity
- DRM fails. Again.
- JK Rowling wins Lexicon case
- Scientology misuses copyright. Again.
- Browser Wars and faulty EULAs
August 2008
- How to stop piracy?
- Internet memes against copyright term extension
- Evidence-based copyright policy? No thank you!
- Gratz to the catz
- Class action suit against Dell
- Farming gold for development
- Technophobic memes in the press
- Licence breach equals copyright infringement in U.S.
- SCRIPT-ed August 2008
- The hackers strike back
- Of trolls, anonymity and online norms
July 2008
- It’s all about the data, stupid!
- SCRIPTed Conference
- More silliness in the name of content owners
- Virtual Policy ’08 Conference
- Supervision
- World of Lawcraft: Breach of EULA is infringement
- User-Generated advertising, double standards and memes
- Evidence Vista may be in trouble
- Lost in translation
- Llama que llama
- Dell involed in massive pricing error
- Europe not so bad after all?
- European woes
- Virtual Policy Network conference
- Stealth copyright reform, act now!
- Llamas FTW!
- Music industry chasing its own tail
- Firefox: The public face of open source?
June 2008
- Icann? Yes we can!
- Company rulez
- Bored
- Where have all the spambots gone?
- Using anti-hacking law to punish cyberstalking
- Domain name dispute over Narnia
- Suicide 2.0
- Book publishing under Creative Commons
- Edinburgh University studentship
- Virgin ISP to issue letters to file-sharers
- The failing three-strike strategy
- Bean counting
- Aerotel patent repealed
May 2008
- Doodling
- Democratic engagment or PR ruse?
- On the road
- Travel and "open" wifi
- Machinima for good causes
- An end to the knitting saga
- Of fan art, mash-ups and licences
- Death of a gold spammer
- In defence of Edinburgh
- Doctor Who: Partners in Copyright Crime
- Gikiii
April 2008
- Regulating gold farming
- Jail for priests over copyright infringement?
- Confessions of a gold buyer
- Harry Potter and the Maze of Fair Use
- New reasons to buy a Mac
- BitTorrent traffic still growing
- British music industry says no to private copying
- SCRIPT-ed April 2008
- European Parliament votes against three-strikes
- The ISP rebellion
- Microsoft wins OOXML standard
- Users liable for phishing and hacking
- Blackboard’s patent on the way out
- Think of the children
- Who broke the Internet?
March 2008
- Selling out?
- COMMUNIA Workshop
- Why do you hate America?
- Do WoW autopilot bots infringe copyright?
- Computer programs are not software, UK judge says
- Symbian ruling will be appealed
- ISP police, Sweden says no
- ISP liability, round two
- Firefox 3 beta 4 released
- BILETA panel on open access
- Microsoft blues
- Cyberterrorism and virtual worlds
- Blackboard wins e-learning patent suit
- Blackboard wins e-learning patent suit
February 2008
- 4-minute medley on the music wars
- YouTube v Pakistan: a test on resilience
- The bots are at the gates
- New media: old wine in new bottles?
- Of blogs and llamas
- Computer users and Asperger’s syndrome
- Talking about gold farming…
- The internet is for suicide
- Biggest eBay sale in history?
- Why has not Linux taken over OS market?
- Music industry debate in London
- ISPs set to enforce illegal downloads in the UK
- UK IP Office issues statement on software patents
- Inflation in virtual economies?
- Microsoft Case event in Edinburgh
- Church of Scientology v The Internet. Again.
- The TechnoLlama Index
- Pirate Bay sued
January 2008
- ECJ strikes balance between IP and data protection
- Landmark software patent ruling in the UK
- European Public Licence
- Microsfot case conference
- Peruvian dancer obtains IP rights over national dance
- COMMUNIA Workshop
- Patent for office surveillance software
- Apple heralds the age of convergence
- Domain name disputes hit all time high
- Steady growth, finite resources, and arithmetic
- Seven random things
- One Profit Per Child
- Format wars all but over: Sony won
- EU to adopt DRM policy?
- CC in UK TV
- User Generated Content and copyryght
- Chinese search engine wins copyright infringement case
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December 2007
- Egypt to ‘copyright’ antiquities
- The strange world of blog comments
- Political power in Web 2.0
- Post-modern scam
- SCRIPT-ed December 2007
- Wikipedia makes a move towards CC
- Cybercrime in emerging economies
- On leave
- Pirate Bay loses IFPI domain
November 2007
- ISPs acting on Bittorrent
- Case against Creative Commons dropped
- Virtual week
- France set to punish pirates
- Another academic scam
- Second Life PI
- Research grants: the new identity fraud scam
- High Court to review software patents
- The Bad Web
- The technophobes strike back
- EU asks US to remove internet gambling restrictions
- Another Second Life sex toy dispute goes to court
- Crime Investigation 2.0
- Urban Spaces event in Glasgow
- Bloodspell and the raise of machinima
- LARP: bringing games to life
- Happy Late Halloween
October 2007
- Cybercrime under control?
- Virtual worlds bad for kids?
- Hatebook
- OiNK shut down
- TV-Links clampdown
- Three years of llamas
- Bragg v Linden Labs
- One-click patent claims rejected
- ILAWS launch
- Mac migration blues
- Linux patent infringement suit
- Re-thinking virtual world strategies
- DRM RIP
- Costa Ricans vote YES to CAFTA
- Company sued in Scotland for listening to radio
- Open database licence
- RIAA wins download case
- Virgin v Thomas continues
- VII World Congress of Computer Law
- Mother v RIAA
September 2007
- SCRIPT-ed September 2007
- Creative Commons sued for Virgin Campaign
- GikII 2
- Conferencing
- Mean anti-piracy adds
- Downloading TV shows made easy
- Browse-wrap agreements boosted by US ruling
- Clogging the Internets can land you in trouble
- Man arrested for ID theft on P2P networks
- Pirate Bay gear, licensed and unlicensed
- Facebook profiles to be made public
- Microsoft releases machinima licence
- Should we care about the iPhone?
August 2007
- Downloading is not stealing
- Open source licences are contracts
- Australian teenager cracks porn filter
- Attack of the killer technophobes
- RMI WIPO seminar
- State of Play: Identity
- State of Play: Day 2
- State of Play: Regulation
- State of Play V
- Australia set to clean the Internet
- Edinbrugh Interactive Festival, Day 2
- The end of SCO?
- Edinburgh Interactive Festival
- Universal to trial DRM-free music
- Government should act on cybercrime
- Facebook sued for patent infringement
- New copyleft ruling in Spain
- New survey on open content licences
- GikII 2 programme available
- Empty Life
- iTunes sells, Eminem sues
July 2007
- Who let the IP dogs out?
- Second Life bans gambling
- ConnectU v Facebook
- Sex offenders banned from MySpace
- Are you the real online you?
- The Internet IS a series of tubes
- Synthetic lifeforms and patenting
- Caught on Facebook
- Software patent debate? No thank you, says EPO
- Virgin Australia using Creative Commons content
- SCRIPT-ed books for review
- Virtual lawsuits
- Knock-off Nigel
- CAFTA declared constitutional in Costa Rica
- Cybercrime pays… in the UK
- Wikipedian protesters
- Wikiality
- Creative Commons licence statistics
June 2007
- GPL v3 released
- GikII 2
- Second Life hype over?
- Eben Moglen in Edinburgh
- … and the winner is ….
- New aggregated blog
- SCRIPT-ed June 2007
- EMI’s sales soar without DRM
- Name the llama shortlist
- The life of a Chinese gold farmer
- Peer to Patent live
- iSummit in pictures
- Free Radio
- Creative Commons movement
- Poker
- The future of the Commons
- F.U.D. from Chile
- Legal Day
- Live from Dubrovnik
- Croatia
- Torrentspy ordered to track visitors
- Name that llama
- Class-action suit for virtual gold farming
- The Genesis of We7
- File-sharing promotes terrorism
- AACS keys cracked. Again.
May 2007
- Trouble with Facebook
- Fairytale use
- Travel
- Forever Copyright
- Fraud law used to fight P2P
- City of Merchants
- Web site? What’s a web site?
- Data Protection film-making
- Perfect 10 v Google
- Cyberwar 1.0
- AACS to sue the MPAA?
- PayPal now a bank
- Spanish jazz club wins case on copyleft claims
- Linux infringes Microsoft’s patents
- Sued for NOT using DRM?
- WOW Visa
- M@rking…
- Top 10 passwords
- Electronic Money Strikes Back
- Another Spanish bar loses on copyleft licences
- AACS vows to fight bloggers over number
- University students’ identities revealed to RIAA
- A digital bully den?
- HD-DVD brought down by Web 2.0
- Microsoft wins patent case in US Supreme Court
April 2007
- Not an IP Day post
- Social networking, one month on
- Attack of the killer robots
- State of Play Academy
- Canadian lawyer needed
- WiFi thieves?
- 40k
- Virtual prostitution or virtual prank?
- Creative Commons enforced in Chile
- ORG raffle winners announced
- Will patents kill the MP3 format?
- Blogosphere’s code of conduct?
- YouTube’s content is mostly user-generated
- Social network me that neutral Web 2.0
- Piracy rates prove Pastafarianism
- ORG party and raffle
- CC Canadian enforcement case
- SCRIPT-ed March Issue out
- Nothing to report on EMI
- April’s Fools roundup
March 2007
- Anti-plagiarism software company sued
- GPL v3 v3
- Criminality of death threats online
- Brussels
- Defining YouTube culture in one OKGo
- Pirates complain about P2P
- P2P in the news
- Virtual communities and IP
- The dangerous and wild Internet
- Chronicle of a suit foretold
- SCRIPT-ed books for review
- Alternative DVD anti-piracy ad
- BitTorrent and traffic shaping
- Open source Tories
- MMORPG bubble bursting
- Trouble with jurisdiction
- Open source patenting
- Enforcing Creative Commons (Part Deux)
- Virtual spam
- Conservapedia
- The Joyce Hatto scandal: iTunes and plagiarism
February 2007
- Number 10 answers software patent petition
- Resuming normal service
- eBay bans in-game goods
- Creative Commons version 3.0 launched
- Internet addict sues IBM
- Music downloads do not affect sales
- UK Law Database
- Web 2.0 video
- Vista Wow? More like Boo!
- Has DRM had its day?
- Sex offenders must register e-mail address
- Personality rights wiki
- Blackboard issues OS patent waiver
- Identity Society event in London
January 2007
- USPTO to examine Blackboard patent
- HD-DVD DRM cracked
- TV industry to enforce BitTorrent?
- Latest FACT video against copyright
- PR firm attacks open access
- Enforcing Creative Commons
- Vista’s legal woes
- New blog
- The Independent Republic of Sealand
- Political activism in Second Life
- EU report favours open source
- Is Second Life Open Source?
- Legal movie downloading just around the corner?
- More details on Sony case
- Sony fined by French court for DRM music
- Five things you didn’t know about me
- Should Saddam’s video be regulated?
- Happy New Year