Lex Ferenda

The final full faculty-led session of our programme returned to the theme of copyright, and the speaker was William (Terry) Fisher, IP law professor at Harvard and director of the Berkman Center. Prof. Fisher built his talk around the ideas he put forward in the last chapter of Promises To Keep, his 2004 book [...]

The decision in Euro-Excellence v Kraft has just been released; it’s a dispute over copyright in logos as a method of restraining unauthorised distribution of chocolate bars (Toblerones) in Canada. An apparent fallout over distribution led to a position where EE didn’t have a deal, Kraft issued a copyright licence to someone else [...]

We had a fun little session on research tools this morning. I spoke about Yep, a PDF management app for the Mac. I’ve been playing with it for a while, and I can recommend it, although it lacks a social network interactive folksonomised video web 2.0 interface
Ismael has a list of [...]

Researcher, photographer and Creative Commoner Rachel Cobcroft spoke about her research this afternoon. Her presentation (enriched by a range of CC-licensed photographs) included general information on Flickr as well as a discussion of her own PhD. There are in fact over 42m images on Flickr that are licensed under some form of [...]