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Eninem says ?thank you? to 9th circuit

Posted on September 16, 2010
Continuing my catch up of interesting things (legally, at least) that happened whilst I was on holiday, the 9th circuit (yes, them again) decision in F.B.T. Productions et al v Aftermath Records et al is a very interesting one ? if one that is unlikely to have as much effect as might first be thought...

Shrinkwrap looking safe again, thanks to 9th circuit court

Posted on September 14, 2010
Catching up on things that happened whilst I was holiday and I was disappointed, but not urprised, to see that a three-judge panel of the US 9th Circuit Court of Appeal has overturned a federal district court ruling that had said that an individual can resell legitimate software on sites such as eBay without breaching [...

Kindle: Part Two

Posted on September 13, 2010
When I decided to buy the Kindle I have to confess I was more interested in having the new toy than anything else, and was not expecting to find that it would be something I would use, except for holidays, to actually read things. However, after making it three quarters of the way through Peter [...

The Kindle: Part One

Posted on September 09, 2010
I was hoping my first post about the Kindle would be less about war and more about peace, about love and not hate. Sadly … KINDLING My Kindle arrived the day before I went on holiday, so it seemed only logical to download a book and take one with me, in additional to my actual books to [...

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Say Hello ?

Posted on August 05, 2010
I am sad to see Google has called it a day on Wave, but I am not surprised. According to Google: ‘Wave has not seen the user adoption we would have liked. We don?t plan to continue developing Wave as a standalone product, but we will maintain the site at least through the end of the [...

Are article hyperlinks part of the ?context? in deciding defamation claims?

Posted on August 04, 2010
Thanks to an PLC update I came across an Interesting defamation case between Islam Expo Ltd a company which organises the bi-annual IslamExpo, and Islamic exhibition and the publisher of spectator and one it’s journalists concerning an article published online at www...

Dr StrangeLove: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the HTC

Posted on July 27, 2010
A few months ago, I decided to leave the world of Apple and my lovely iPhone 3G and see what life was like on the Google Android side of the street, with the HTC Desire. I liked it from the off but did have some minor gripes and annoyances that some of the apps I [...

Come again? Not if can?t prove it?s in public interest says PCC

Posted on July 26, 2010
The Press Complaints Committee has upheld complaints against Irish Newspaper ‘The Sunday World’ for two newspaper reports about a “shocking new group sex craze” (?bukkake’). The PCC agreed with complainant that the stories were inaccurate, intrusive, and an invasion of their privacy...

America thrives on competition; Barbie, the all-American girl, will too.

Posted on July 23, 2010
The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeal has vacated Mattel’s hard-won injunction on behalf of its Barbie doll, finding the remedy imposed by the District Court too broad. In 2008, Mattel won a lawsuit claiming MGA had infringed its copyright and breached a contract because the designer of Bratz dolls was still under contract to Mattel when [...

Is selling hash in Coffee Shops covered by free movement of goods rules under EU law?

Posted on July 21, 2010
Well it’s the funkalistic, / the blunt I twist it - Cypress Hill - ‘I wanna get High’ It’s not often that the right to go into a ‘coffee shop’ and spark up a joint comes before the courts, but at this very moment the judges at the European court of Justice are faced with just [...

US Appeal Court says F the CC

Posted on July 14, 2010
“So fuck the FCC / Fuck the FBI /Fuck the CIA / Livin in the motherfuckin USA” - Steve Earle ? F the CC The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 2nd Circuit in New York has ruled that the U.S. Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) indecency policy is unconstitutionally vague and could create a chilling effect [...

Libraries: A Future worth fighting for.

Posted on July 13, 2010
“A good library will never be too neat, or too dusty, because somebody will always be in it, taking books off the shelves and staying up late reading them.” Lemony Snicket I’ve writing so much about libraries recently that anyone coming across this blog might confuse me with a librarian...

Libraries and bad reporting: Fox v Boing Boing

Posted on July 01, 2010
Checking through my feeds and shared items this morning I came across an item on libraries shared by a friend that seemed to promise bad reporting and calls to close libraries down. Better still, it was from Fox News. I was suddenly smiling, pleased to see that over in America the same quality of investigation [...

XXX marks the spot

Posted on June 25, 2010
So it seems that the xxx domain will see the light of day after all, after ICANN approved the creation of the controversial domain, to be run by the ICM Registry. ICM claims to have received more than 110,000 pre-reservations for .xxx domains from those in the industry...

Marxist Budget

Posted on June 22, 2010
As already mentioned by Phil Bradley, we attended Channel 4’s ‘Dispatches’ debate last night on how to save $100 Billion. We had gone to wave the Library cause flag but didn’t get the chance. The purpose was to have some debate ahead of George Osborne’s emergency budget cut-a-thon [ “Oh, it’s a scythe…...

Is that news or a blog?

Posted on June 22, 2010
One of the very noticeable things to come with the new coalition government has been a very quick overhaul of several of the departmental websites, with things getting even more web2.0 (am I even allowed to still use that term anymore?) than before. Over at the DCMS for example things are going all, well, bloggy...

Government junks Public Library Modernisation Review spending commitments

Posted on June 17, 2010
The DCMS has confirmed that spending commitments made by the last government following its Public Library Modernisation Review will not be kept. This means that the coalition will not pursue the £2 million (per annum) spending commitments set out in the Public Library Modernisation Review Policy statement published in March 2010...

Ambush Marketing and big sporting events ? crying over spilt beer?

Posted on June 16, 2010
For the second World Cup running Dutch beer company Bavaria have succeeded in becoming the brand everyone is talking about at the tournament. It seems this time around the company gave out lots of free tight fitting orange dresses to female Dutch fans prior to the game with Denmark and also allegedly paid 36 very [...

Worst Legal supplier/publisher?

Posted on June 15, 2010
Last weekend many of my fellow Legal Library and Information friends (and legal publishers/vendors) took over Brighton for the annual BIALL conference. I couldn’t make it, but I believe a good time was had. But it did get me thinking. Each year several awards are handed out including those for Law librarian of the [...

Ofcom and HD DRM: Hook, Line and Sinker

Posted on June 14, 2010
Congratulations must go out today to the big TV programme and film producers who actually managed with the help of our terrestrial broadcasters in convincing Ofcom that unless they agreed to a BBC proposal to amend to its digital multiplex licence (Multiplex B), to allow the BBC to restrict the availability of programme listing information [...

KPMG authors need to visit a library

Posted on June 08, 2010
KPMG have published a white paper entitled ‘Payment for Success’ that has done the unthinkable ? it’s annoyed a bunch of Librarians. It’s true, we do get annoyed and sometimes to levels when we go Shhhhhhhh! loudly. However, like those in other professions - ‘The presenting issue is about levels of spending, but the real issues [...

The Stats on Internet Pornography

Posted on June 04, 2010
This is from the good people at Online Schools org who’s goal is to make education fun. “We’re a bunch of guys who spend our free time trying to come up with informative and engaging informational graphics. Its our way of making the world a better place...

Sharing my thoughts ?

Posted on June 02, 2010
I was amused as always reading the latest Ofcom Broadcast Bulletin when they were describing the latest code breaches by Bang Babes channel, Tease Me. This broadcast featured a presenter wearing fishnet tights and a skimpy all in one?body? with a g-string back...

Live your life off the wall

Posted on May 31, 2010
“And I lie awake and dream at night, sometimes I even sleep, then I dream of her behind the wall [of sleep]” - The Smithereens - Behind the wall of sleep And so it came to pass ? This next couple of weeks will see the Times and Sunday Times disappear behind a paywall...

Perfect 10 continues losing streak

Posted on May 28, 2010
Porn publisher Perfect 10 has been back in court again. After failed attempts to get the courts to rule that Google, Amazon, Microsoft and others infringed their copyright by offering thumbnail copies of the images ? usually uploaded or stored on other people’s websites, they have now failed in an attempt to get an injunction [...

Victor?s got a little secret - Victoria doesn?t like it

Posted on May 27, 2010
In an interesting - and long running - trademark dilution case, the US Court of Appeal has held that the use of the name “Victor’s Little Secret” or “Victor’s Secret” by a small retail store in a mall in Elizabethtown, Kentucky, owned by Victor Moseley, that sells assorted merchandise, including “sex toys” and other sexually [...

Search engines still in breach of EU data protection laws

Posted on May 27, 2010
The EU’s Article 29 Data Protection Working Party has sent public letters to the three major search engines ? Google , Microsoft and Yahoo! saying that although it welcomes their efforts to bring their data retention policies in line with the law, they are all still in breach of the EU’s data protection directive...

Hunting down blog posts and tweets

Posted on May 20, 2010
Was greatly amused today when I came across two blog posts here and here on the Bloggerheads blog about our new Secretary of State for Culture, Olympics, Media & Sport, Jeremy Hunt, and his interesting approach to blogging and Tweeting. It seem Jeremy just doesn’t really GET IT...

I am Librarian ? It?s not funny.

Posted on May 19, 2010
I’m a qualified librarian ? a lot of you reading will already know that. I spent almost 10 years working in public libraries and think public libraries are still hugely important in our society. I’m also a fan of comedy and humour, including material that is occasionally close to the bone...

Vinyl Beer

Posted on May 14, 2010
I found this delightful animated promo for Vinyl a Spring Seasonal beer brewed by Vermont’s Magic Hat Brewery online today (Via LaughingSquid) and found myself thinking about whether or not they could run this as an ad on UK TV. One of those questions I’m sure you all think of when you see things like [...

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