YouTube will steal your babies and eat your dinner
From the Financial Times:
Jeff Zucker, on his first day as chief executive of NBC Universal, came out swinging at YouTube, accusing the online video site of failing to deploy its technology to protect the copyrighted materials of traditional media companies.
“YouTube needs to prove that it will implement its filtering technology across its online platform. It’s [...]
Dot IE and the Communications Regulation (Amendment) Bill
There seems to be some confusion out there over the provisions in the Communications Regulation (Amendment) Bill 2007. While - as promised in the Electronic Communications (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill 2005 consultation (good post at the time by Antóin) - the law on domain names in Ireland is being updated, very little of this is [...]
Then the Court calls me up to drive the Zamboni
Not content with having constitutional principles based on margarine (see below), Canadian case law (and legal education) may now include principles of tort law based on the zamboni! Or “ice resurfacer”, if you want to protect the Zamboni trademark:
The machine is not “a Zamboni,” it is a ZAMBONI ice resurfacing machine. The name must [...]
MacGowers
Jordan Hatcher’s new/remodelled blog has a very good report on last night’s discussion of the Gowers Report (and its implications for Scotland). Looks like it was a good one. I’m particularly interested in this remark:
Scotland, it seems, is always left asking the above question. The Gowers report, as was pointed out, barely even [...]