10 July 2011
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Moving away from phone hacking and plagiaristic journalists for a minute, there’s an interesting article tucked away on page 4 of today’s Sunday Times. Unfortunately, the Sunday Times’ policy on hiding away their online content means I can’t link to … Continue reading
5 July 2011
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One of the things that’s missing from nearly all the reports into the NOTW phone hacking scandal is that it doesn’t really involve hacking at all, in the sense usually meant by the term. Certainly, it’s nothing like the hacking … Continue reading
3 July 2011
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My previous post on the FOI request about Courtel and HMCTS has already started doing the rounds of Twitter, Facebook and the blogosphere, so I thought I ought to clarify something that maybe wasn’t plain before. I don’t object to … Continue reading
3 July 2011
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In R v Sussex Justices, Ex parte McCarthy, the then Lord Chief Justice Lord Hewart delivered a judgment containing a phrase which has passed into common parlance. Commenting on the need for the legal system to be both transparent and … Continue reading
26 May 2011
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The new EU directive on web cookies came into force in the UK today. In case you weren’t aware, the law now requires any website which sets cookies, other than those strictly necessary for the functioning of the site, to … Continue reading
26 May 2011
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I’ve finally had the chance to read the Hargreaves review into copyright and intellectual property in full, and I have to say that I’m fairly impressed with it. Obviously, not everyone is going to be happy with it, either because … Continue reading
19 March 2011
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I have to admit that I don’t usually read the business section of the newspaper. But I just happened to glance through it in today’s Times, and my eye was caught by a headline “Britain must turn tide against piracy”. … Continue reading
9 February 2011
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Here’s the text of the latest judgement: http://www.bailii.org/ew/cases/EWPCC/2011/6.html You need to read it carefully to get an idea of what’s actually going on here, as it isn’t obvious. And this is by no means the end of it – all … Continue reading
13 January 2011
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In another of my occasional series of blog posts about organisations who mistakenly think they can prevent you linging to them without their permission, there’s a classic of the genre at http://www.londonfuneralservice.co.uk/terms.html. Oops, I just broke that rule. Unfortunately for … Continue reading
19 December 2010
by Mark
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The spectre of Internet censorship has reared its head again recently, with reports that the government is planning to hold talks with ISPs over the creation of an “opt in” system for allowing customers to access pornographic material on the … Continue reading