Monday, May 17, 2010

Apres la Deluge: Privacy, DP and the New Politics

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Wow, I've been gone a long time haven't I? There was quite a lot of Real Life to catch up on after the DEB/DEA, y'know :-) Also ...
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Friday, April 30, 2010

Hitler's response to the EC proposing mandatory ISP blocking of porn sites

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Ok, actually no Hitler at all, but a usefully cynical video:-)
Wednesday, April 28, 2010

Hitler reacts to the Hitler parodies being removed from YouTube

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Yes I know this is last week's news, but I'm pleasantly surprised to find this hilarious commentary on take down vs fair use is stil...
Friday, April 23, 2010

Law and sausages: How Not to Legislate for the Digital Economy

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The audio of this talk at Sheffield Cafe Scientitfique (an hour long, sorry!) is now here for those who wish at http://www.radio4all.net/i...
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Tuesday, April 20, 2010

If it's tomorrow it must be Embra..

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Another talk by me on the #debill, plus, more excitingly, Simon Frith!! 21 April 2010: Digital Economy Bill: Professors Simon Frith and Lil...
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Wednesday, April 14, 2010

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From ORG-list, useful update on Viviane Reding's progress on data protection directive reform . First stage of consulting is over and...
Monday, April 12, 2010

Life is very strange lately..

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.. Pangloss, still detoxing from a week on Twtter, is somewhat flattered to find herself the actual centre of an op piece!! Even one by no...
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Saturday, April 10, 2010

GIKII V : last reminder!

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GikII V , Edinburgh 2009 http://www.law.ed.ac.uk/ahrc/gikii/2010.asp GikII V, The Voyage Home 28-29 June 2010 John McIntyre Conference C...
Thursday, April 08, 2010

Social Media 1 : Democracy 1 (after extra time)

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More fascinating fall out from last night's DEB debates: via a random tweet, Phil Gyford writes "On the plus side — let’s end on a...
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And that's all folks

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The DEB has now officially passed and become law at 4pm 8 April 09. Pangloss may now look at the shredded remnants of the rest of her duties...

Last night: the DEB passes in the Commons

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And after the 3am tweetwake, the weary rise and totter towards their laptops.. Law Well. Much has been covered elsewhere . T here is a usef...
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Wednesday, April 07, 2010

Yesterday's debate

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is now up on Hansard and will, i think, be a fascinating historical record of parliamantary attitudes to technology c 2010 :-) From Austin M...

DEB 2nd reading, HC (& a few musings on party politics & Twitter)

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The Digital Economy Bill has passed its Second Reading in the Commons and goes to its final vote tomorrow. Today in Parliament was not insp...
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Monday, April 05, 2010

DEB: the Final Countdown

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Gordon Brown goes to the Palace tomorrow to dissolve Parliament, and the Digital Economy Bill goes to the House of Commons for its second, a...
Thursday, April 01, 2010

Singh libel win in Court of Appeal

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Dr Simon Singh has succeeded in persuading the Court of Appeal that a defense of fair comment is applicable to his critical comments on chi...
Wednesday, March 31, 2010

DEB: heavens

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Reproduced from Boing Boing "UK Labour MP Austin Mitchell has had a change of heart on the dread Digital Economy Bill and has produced...

Clause 18, DEB redux

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Pangloss is back from Vienna where she hugely enjoyed BILETA 2010, courtesy of Erich Shweighofer and the Vienna Law Faculty and was amazed a...
Thursday, March 25, 2010

Google Wins on Adwords in ECJ

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Google is not in principle breaking EU law by selling AdWords to competitors of those who own associated trade marks in those keywords - off...
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Wednesday, March 24, 2010

Today not in Parliament but in Manchester

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In pub in Manchester after yes, an interesting panel on the DEB! No time yet to write it you (though you could try looking at Twitter on #c...
Wednesday, March 17, 2010

DEB: write to MPs campaign launch

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My views on the DEB are I think relatively plain:-) 38 Degrees are trying to get 10,000 people to write to their MPs in next few days to ...