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PCC answers loaded question of Epic Boobs girl

Posted on May 13, 2010
The Press Complaints Commission have cleared the mazine Loaded of breaching the privacy of a young women with an article headlined “Wanted! The Epic Boobs girl!”, published in the February 2010 edition of Loaded. Whilst the PCC commented on the questionable tastefulness of the article - which displayed pictures of the girl, then aged 15, [...

CIPA and Libraries back in the news

Posted on May 12, 2010
It’s been a while since there was any CIPA law to get my teeth into ? that’s the US’s Children’s Internet Protection Act. But a State law case in Washington has once again put it and the issue of using filters to block content in public libraries in the spotlight...

AFP Can use, licence and profit from your Twitpics for free ? according to AFP

Posted on May 06, 2010
Photojournalist Daniel Morel was surprised when he saw photos he had taken in Haiti ? showing the devastation after the earthquake - appearing in various publications credited to Associated Press (AFP) and Lisandro Suero. He sent cease and desist letters asking the AFP and other to stop using his photographs without his permission...

T-Mobile v HTC Desire - That don?t impress me much

Posted on April 09, 2010
As of yesterday afternoon I ceased to be an 02 iPhone customer and became a fully fledged T-Mobile HTC Desire customer, when my old phone number was ported over. Up until that point ? for the previous few days ? I had been enjoying playing with the Desire on T-mobile on the number that [...

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Lords say BBC strategy works against case for DAB

Posted on April 07, 2010
“The BBC?s new strategy proposals, which are the subject of a public consultation, include the proposed closure of two of the BBC?s digital-only radio stations: 6 Music and the Asian Network. This proposal sends a negative signal to consumers about the BBC?s commitment to digital radio?and the direction of travel on digital radio in the [...

Meltware v NLA update

Posted on March 26, 2010
Missed this last week. Copyright Tribunal has upheld web news monitoring service Meltware?s right to challenge the Newspaper Licensing Agency’s (NLA) Web Database Licence/Web End User Licence. Meltware is arguing that the costs of the licence as excessive and they would be paying around �10,000 to cover around 3...

Little TED: Alerts from the land of pointless

Posted on March 26, 2010
I, like many of my fellow information/library colleagues, use the EU’s TED (Tenders Electronic Daily) service. For those familiar with TED it is the online version of the ‘Supplement to the Official Journal of the European Union’, dedicated to European public procurement...

Govt change position on videogame industry tax relief within space of 3 days

Posted on March 24, 2010
I know they say that a week is a long time in politics, but … on Monday the Government responded to House of Lords Select Committee on Communications report on the British film and television industries. In response to the Committee’s following recommendation on the video games industry: We recognise the claims of the videogames industry [...

Hello ? is it me you?re looking for ?

Posted on March 22, 2010
I do like to start the day with a bit of spam. I have someting VERY important to tell Jessy too. HELLO my name is Jessy! please how are you! hope you are fine and in perfect condition of health.I went through your email to day i read it and took intersest in it,please if you [...

Viacom v YouTube: Motions for summary judgment

Posted on March 19, 2010
The wrappers came off Viacom’s and YouTube’s motions for summary judgment in their copyright infringement case. The motions made for interesting reading as both sides choose to selectively target the other in their arguments. Viacom Viacom told the court that it is only interested in infringement pre-May 2008 (the point at which YouTube deployed digital fingerprinting and [...

Lords? talk hyperlinking

Posted on March 11, 2010
The Digital Economy Bill finished its report stage in the4 House of Lords earlier this week (current text of bill to go to third reading here). Whilst the biggest news to come out of the report stage has been the well intentioned but bad new clause 17 and the possible widening of powers to block [...

Tory Tech Manifesto

Posted on March 11, 2010
The Conservative party have published their technology manifesto, which they hope will win over those in and with an interest in the technology industries ahead of the upcoming general election. The manifesto includes commitments to: Publish online the names and salaries of all central government and Quango managers earning over �150,000 per year, and in [...

Digital Economy Bill introduces new website blocking powers

Posted on March 05, 2010
The report stage of the Digital Economy Bill at long last produced some real amendments to the Bill, but the biggest one has left some thinking the ‘improvements’ may in fact do more harm. From the moment the bill was first published last year Clause 17, which gives the government ?a power to amend the Copyright, [...

Is .XXX back from the dead?

Posted on February 24, 2010
Could .XXX be coming to an internet domain near you soon? That will certainly be the hope of the ICM Registry following a ruling by the ICANN Independent Review Panel. In the Panel’s first ruling since the process was introduced six years ago the panel ruling 2-1 that ICANN should revisit its decision to refuse [...

Italian?s shoot messenger and send chill down social networks? collective backs

Posted on February 24, 2010
An Italian court has found three executives guilty of breaching Italian privacy laws, in relation to a video clip posted on the Google Video site. The case centred on a mobile video clip of an Italian child with Down’s syndrome being bullied and hit by four school boys, which was posted on Google Video in September [...

Press duped into believing govt u-turn on ?3 strikes? ?

Posted on February 23, 2010
A number of reports appeared last night ? such as this one (since update by the Guardian’s Charles Arthur) claiming that the UK government were back-tracking on the so called ‘three strikes rule’ to deal with persistent alleged illegal p2p filesharers...

Through the looking glass to the crystal ball

Posted on February 23, 2010
The Odeon Cinema chain has confirmed it will refuse to screen Tim Burton?s 3D version of Alice in Wonderland over the decision by Disney to issue to the film on DVD after just 12 weeks after its Cinema release date (the usual release window in 17-18 weeks)...

Newspapers start crying about nasty ol? BBC, again

Posted on February 22, 2010
I see the Newspaper Publishers Association (NPA) has started moaning to the BBC Trust (and plans to also moan to the DCMS) about the Beeb’s plans to launch phone apps for its news and sport content later this year. The reason? It would “damage the nascent market” for news apps...

More Buzz - Exit Stage Left

Posted on February 22, 2010
Google’s attempt to get in on the social media updating and sharing space continues to make news ? not least of which a couple of lawsuits that accuse Google of serious privacy law breaches. I personally really want to like Buzz, honest, I do. I can also see how it could become both good and useful...

Why even ?private? isn?t private on Buzz

Posted on February 17, 2010
Oh Google. I really want to like Buzz, and if you’d have gone through your usual never ending beta stage we might have forgiven some of your howlers so far … Google Reader Items Now you can share and view these in Buzz - as you can within GReader - only with Buzz there is a difference...

Buzz or Zzzzzzzzzzzzz ?

Posted on February 10, 2010
And so it came to pass that Google decided it wanted to be Friendfeed. Yes, the Gman has rolled out its attempt to get in on some Twitter/Friendfiend/Facebook Lifestreaming action. Are you excited? No, neither is anyone else really. We remember that Google bought Jaiku a few years back, sat on it, did nothing and [...

Human Rights Committee questions Digital Economy Bill compliance with ECHR

Posted on February 05, 2010
The UK parliament’s joint committee on human rights have published a report criticising the government’s attempts , through the Digital Economy Bill, to tackle illegal file-sharing. They say the bill ? as currently drafted - may create over-broad powers, and that some provisions in the Bill are not specified in enough detail to ensure that [...

Ode to name.seo@gmail.com

Posted on February 02, 2010
This one goes out to my good friends Coesee coetsee.seo@gmail.com ; abass abass.seo@gmail.com ; henrylow henrylow.seo@gmail.com and others who seem to like leaving endless spam comments on my blog plugging onlineuniversalwork.com ? There, look. I’ve just given you free publicity in a blog post...

Bringing Taxonomy and Folksonomy Together

Posted on January 29, 2010
There is a nice straightforward article by Thomas Vander Wal on Zdnet blogs about Taxonomies.� In it he explains why - as many of us know - that withi an organisation it should not be a choice between traditional taxonomies OR social tagging/folksonomies, but that it should be an AND choice with the latter informing [...

Apple Lilliput release iTouch for Gulliver

Posted on January 29, 2010
Apple want me to spend around �400 to buy a giant 16GB iPod Touch. Hmmm? Yes, the iPad is nice a shiny, just like all Apple’s stuff, but what is it for exactly? When and where would I use it? Q: Would I take it out and about with me instead of a netbook/laptop? A: No...

BskyB v EDS - Conclusions

Posted on January 27, 2010
For those who have not seen the judgment and just want to read the conclusions of the court, here they are:� 2322. I now summarise some of the main findings and conclusions arising from this judgment. Provisions of the Prime Contract 2323. In relation to construction of the Entire Agreement clause at Clause 1...

Facebook, Disputes, and Jurisdiction

Posted on January 25, 2010
The always insightful Eric Goldman comments on jurisdiction in a case between Daniel Miller, the creator of online flash game ‘Boomshine’ and Facebook. Miller ? a Facebook user ? has gone after Facebook - in addition to Yao Wei Yeo who he accuses of producing a game / Facebook app ChainRxn, that [...

Ofcom ?minded? to allow BBC to encrypt HD output via the EPG

Posted on January 22, 2010
Ofcom is consulting on a request by the BBC to amend to its digital multiplex licence (Multiplex B), to allow the BBC to restrict the availability of programme listing information for HDTV services only to digital receivers (digi-boxes) that implement content management technology...

Court?s decison in BskyB ITV shareholding case interesting for media plurality interpretation

Posted on January 21, 2010
The High Court has dismissed BSkyB’s appeal against rulings by the Competition Commission (CC) and the Secretary of State, as upheld by the Competition Appeal Tribunal (CAT), that directed BskyB to decrease its 17.9% shareholding in ITV to below 7...

Just the Ticket

Posted on January 21, 2010
Why I love buying Concert tickets and why you should always look on more than one site. Today I was looking at an upcoming gig and on Ticketmaster the price for 2 tickets was quoted as �16.50 each (inc booking fee etc). On See Tickets the same tickets were �15...

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