Peter Ryan has tagged me with one of these tagging things, and I’m only doing it because he’s from Toronto and I need him to bring me for good coffee and donuts the next time I’m in town.
So, what I have to do is this :
We have been instructed to open the nearest book to page 123, go down to the 5th sentence and type up the 3 following sentences. Or else. The note also demands that we forward this stupidity onto five others.
Following the addition by the good people at Slaw, though, I’ll give two answers - one for a legal book and one for a non-legal book.
First, the law one, then. It’s International Economic Law and the Digital Divide by Rohan Kariyawasam (because I’m trying to get the time to read it - it’s very good but quite detailed - for thesis reasons so it’s still on my desk)
WTO members have held five dedicated discussions on cross-cutting issues relevant to electronic commerce, under the auspices of the General Council. One of the cross-cutting issues of concern is the classification of electronic intangibles. The issue before the WTO is whether the supply of digitised produces which can be delivered either in a physical medium or by way of the internet should be classified under the GATS or GATT, or even the TRIPS. The type of products generally described as electronic intangibles consist of sound recordings, video games, audiovisual works, computer software and literary works, generally any form of content, protected by copyright or other forms of intellectual property rights that can be delivered in a physical form (CDs, CD-ROMs, DVDs, videos, books, newspapers and magazines), or as a form of an electronic transmission over the Internet.
And the non-law one, which is That Neutral Island by Clair Wills (cause I just bought it in paperback this week):
Brennan’s ditty lambasted the Americans for their cavalier attitude to Irish lives, and argued for Ireland’s right to remain neutral. But it also expressed another concern of the Irish government, through one less often acknowledged in the sober language of diplomacy: the belief that if the British were offered the ports, they would never give them back (’For says John, “I find those bases / Are really quite attractive places…”). Where the British were inclined to think of the ports simply as military bases, divorced from the counties and communities in which they stood, Brennan, and behind him the Irish government, focused on the ports as Irish territory - as integral to the country as the Six Counties.
Now, spreading the love, here’s asking for the reading habits of Ruth (because she reads better books than I do), Content and Carrier (because they love their Shakespeare and their law), Nic (to distract him from his thesis, and to bounce the meme to Australia), Tarleton as his fantastic new syllabus must mean he has a desk covered in books, and finally Lilian so that she can use the results in her next presentation on meme culture!
