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You may remember a rather wonderful court case from 2012 that pitted copyright lawyers against patent lawyers over the issue of whether ...

Well, this one's bizarre. Back in March 2010 we wrote about the UK Usenet aggregator Newzbin being found liable for the copyright i...

Yet more innovation around open source ideas, from an outfit called LexPublica (with a clever URL, too): There is a crying need for access...

Not just right , but very well put: I often explain to clients and prospective clients that the main reward for a great, original product is...

As long-suffering readers of this blog will have noticed, one of my favourite hobby-horses is that the whole idea of "intellectual prop...

Another judge gets it : A federal judge recently got so infuriated by the conduct of two highly regarded trial attorneys that he overturned ...

There seems to be some magic about free software: whenever a certain class of (intelligent) lawyer comes into contact with it, it redeems th...

...and pathetic . When a company starts harassing someone in this way, you can tell they've given up hope. On the basis of what's h...

Lawyers thrive on complication and ambiguity. Things don't get more complicated or ambiguous than in cyberspace - it's no coinciden...

Further to this post , here's conclusive proof that the people behind Second Life get it: Linden Lab objects to any implication that it...

If you think laws are a problem in the real world, wait until you start thinking about the virtual one. Here's what one person has deci...

In a comment to a previous post about Google's acquisition of YouTube, I muttered something about Google having losts of dosh and good ...

You can't beat a legal battle involving two overlapping pieces of legislation. The sight of lawyers having at each other, secure in the...

A fascinating commentary from a lawyer on an issue I raised in passing a little while back: whether the GNU GPL, which depends on copyrig...

And now for some good news about patents - no really. Judging by this article on the excellent Techdirt , a few of the brighter VCs are s...

Paul Graham is a master stylist - indeed, one of the best writers on technology around. Reading his latest essay, " Are Software Paten...

An interesting story in eWeek.com. Larry Brilliant, newly-appointed head of the Google.org philanthropic foundation, wants to set up a d...