Making a better day from the Dark Knight's lesson in IP
Blog Although there are some areas of geekhood where I test very positive indeed – perhaps obvious to anyone who saw me lugging a £10 eBay win iMac G3 home on the 253 bus up the Camden Road last night -... [22 Jul 2008]
Google, Viacom clash over employee records
News Viacom wants to know whether YouTube employees watched or uploaded copyrighted clips. The data could prove key to its lawsuit [14 Jul 2008]
UK P2P user? Hope you like US prison food
Blog This is one of the most frightening things I've learned in a long time. Over in the US, a bill has passed the House of Representatives and is heading to Congress – with a huge amount of support. ... [11 Jun 2008]
BBC threatens iPlayer hackers with mild annoyance
Blog With the tedious inevitability of an unloved season, the BBC's iPlayer has provoked a chain of events with as much predictability as a Bond movie. The plot is simple: the BBC wants to do its... [09 Jun 2008]
Google faces £40m copyright demand
News A group representing Belgian newspaper publishers is demanding Google pay damages related to a lawsuit alleging the search giant linked to and cached news stories in violation of copyright law [28 May 2008]
Google claims Viacom lawsuit 'threatens' net
News In a legal response to Viacom's lawsuit against YouTube, the search giant says it could affect "the way hundreds of millions of people legitimately exchange information" over the web [27 May 2008]
Google's CoreAVC shows how easy copyright is to get right
Blog Are high-profile copyright claims putting you off open source? If so, here's a story to reassure you. A video utility, which disappeared from Google Code in a puff of threatened litigation, is back... [06 May 2008]
The pertinence of programmers’ patents
Blog Patent considerations for software programmers occupy something of a unique place within the hallowed halls of the be-suited bureaucrats who pad the halls of the European Patent Office. Really?... [22 Apr 2008]
Red Hat stands up against software patents
Blog It's refreshing to see a big player in the software game make a stand for improving the rules, instead of just playing by them. We've been watching the controversy over software patents for a... [14 Apr 2008]
Quarter of Australia's software is counterfeit
News The rate of illegal software being installed on PCs in Australia is dropping, but not as much as some in the industry would like [19 Feb 2008]
Judge rules computer programs can be patented
News The High Court ruling has cast doubt on the UK's application of the European Patent Convention [29 Jan 2008]
Of Qtrax and broken dreams
Blog Last thing last night - around 2am, Goodwins Mean Time - I was preparing to turn in. A last look around the news, and an outfit called QTrax was making some waves. Free music downloads,... [28 Jan 2008]
Apple files for DRM system akin to Microsoft
News The Mac maker has filed an updated patent application for an authentication technology that would give it control over its software similar to Microsoft's Windows Genuine Advantage [24 Dec 2007]
A video summary of some of the projects
Blog Here's a video I've put together about some of my projects. Sorry about the wobblyness and wonkyness - I'm not sure where I've put my tripod. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qrr2XKAB0L0 [08 Dec 2007]
Fast answers aren't good answers
Leader If the Federation Against Software Theft is serious about wanting to label file sharers as 'black sheep', it is baa-king up the wrong tree [31 Oct 2007]
Fast: 'Ban them from any internet use'
Q&A John Lovelock, the head of the Federation Against Software Theft, explains why ISPs should ban those accused of illegal file-sharing [30 Oct 2007]
No backdown from CSIRO over Wi-Fi patents
News The Australian government research body will not provide assurances that it won't sue manufacturers of next-generation wireless products over patent infringement [02 Oct 2007]
Linux users could face European patent threat
News Microsoft could call on patents filed with the European Patent Office if it decides to carry out its threats against UK open-source users [19 Sep 2007]
Lawyer: Microsoft patent claims won't affect UK
News The patents which Microsoft claims are infringed by open-source software do not apply in the UK, a leading British tech lawyer has said [14 Sep 2007]
Google denies ownership of users' words
News The search giant has responded to controversy surrounding use of the word 'public' in its terms and conditions for Google Docs [12 Sep 2007]
