Alternatives to C-61, part II
Thursday, August 28th, 2008 Posted in Information Technology, Intellectual Property | No Comments »Here's the rest of that post: GOALS The goal of any legislation is to balance concerns of interested but competing parties, and to approach this balance, as much as possible, with a public interest bias. The concerns were these:
The “Deliverance” of C-61 Begins
Thursday, June 19th, 2008 Posted in Information Technology, Intellectual Property | No Comments »Here we go... [UPDATED: Links added] It's been a week since the Minister of Information Industry, Jim Prentice, dropped a piano Bill C-61 on us. Thanks to Prof. Michael Geist, we had some warning: This bill would ...
Selling your Everything II: More on non-competition clauses, IP assignments/waivers, and employment contracts
Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 Posted in Business Law, Information Technology, Intellectual Property | No Comments »A couple of months ago, I wrote a post on the subject of over-reaching employment contracts. Click here for it. Anyway, I promised that I would have the next part up within days and well, it's been kind of crazy. Between ...
Selling your everything: Non-comp clauses, IP, and employment contracts
Saturday, March 8th, 2008 Posted in Business Law, Information Technology, Intellectual Property, Video Games, Virtual Worlds | 4 Comments »I would like to write, today, about a murky subject I’ve been thinking about for a few weeks. The various forms the germ of this post has assumed over those weeks all stem from a particular type of clause ...
Ford gets confused and shoots itself in the foot
Friday, January 18th, 2008 Posted in Business Law, Intellectual Property | 4 Comments »So Ford Motor Company is a little bit confused. They are claiming some form of intellectual property in photographs of specific Ford Mustangs. Not in the abstract image of the iconic car, but in the photographs taken by ...
The Hacker Crackdown - a podcast
Sunday, January 13th, 2008 Posted in Communications, Information Technology | No Comments »Cory Doctorow has read aloud Bruce Sterling's book, The Hacker Crackdown. He has created a podcast of the whole thing. Follow the link below: Cory Doctorow's announcement on Boing Boing of the podcast of The Hacker Crackdown. For those of you who ...
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