tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21321105Thu, 03 Nov 2011 12:20:57 +0000computer lawprofessional negligenceCybercrimeDigital IPdamagesIFPIAccessibilityE-JurisdictionHarry Potterperformers rightslitigationinfringersGoogleUKmedia lawMcScienceSwedendirty tricksDigital DivideWTOE-Businessscuba divingmass mediacopyrightArgentinainternational lawcompanies valuationIP GeneralJapanvirtual realityinsurancenormsRegulationUSP2PIT developmentsblogsFrom e-contracts to global IP, everything goes here, the place to go if you don't know what to do but don't want to do it alone.http://electromate.blogspot.com/noreply@blogger.com (feneuk)Blogger256125Subscribe with My Yahoo!Subscribe with NewsGatorSubscribe with My AOLSubscribe with BloglinesSubscribe with NetvibesSubscribe with GoogleSubscribe with PageflakesSubscribe with PlusmoSubscribe with The Free DictionarySubscribe with Bitty BrowserSubscribe with NewsAlloySubscribe with Live.comSubscribe with Excite MIXSubscribe with Attensa for OutlookSubscribe with WebwagSubscribe with Podcast ReadySubscribe with FlurrySubscribe with WikioSubscribe with Daily Rotationtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21321105.post-9080227036836831362Sun, 22 Aug 2010 23:49:00 +00002010-08-23T00:49:44.164+01:00A list composed by candidates that met through a Facebook group won the local elections at the beach town of El Condor in the Argentine Patagonia. The list, number 12 for the purposes of the election won the electoral contest against the incumbent, list number 7, getting almost 68% of the votes.The list was formed by members of the Facebook group “Fanaticos del Balneario El Condor”, who through http://electromate.blogspot.com/2010/08/facebook-list-wins-elections.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (feneuk)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21321105.post-2141013744976694025Tue, 13 Jul 2010 18:48:00 +00002010-07-13T19:48:19.664+01:00Paul D. Ceglia has filed a lawsuit in a New York Court alleging that he owns 84% of Facebook and, although Facebook is trying to dismiss it as a frivolous lawsuit, the Judge has found it to have enough entity to order a freeze in all asset transactions for Facebook. The issue arises from an allegation made by the plaintiff (claimant in England) that the current Facebook CEO, Zuckerberg, was paid http://electromate.blogspot.com/2010/07/facebooks-new-lawsuit.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (feneuk)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21321105.post-4176619149782807142Tue, 13 Jul 2010 00:32:00 +00002010-07-13T01:34:51.393+01:00As explained in the previous post, it seems that Apple's disregard for costumers and the truth hit a wall with the facts about iPhone 4. The Cuppertino's compny blamed the carrier, then said that it was normal for many phones but Consumer Report tested them and concluded that it was not true: the problem is with the design of the phone and it is no joke...http://electromate.blogspot.com/2010/07/consumer-report-also-does-not-recommend.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (feneuk)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21321105.post-2142058570009197143Wed, 30 Jun 2010 18:45:00 +00002010-06-30T19:45:33.671+01:00Following a discussion that has years on the making, the company from Cupertino has given a new example that nerds and designers worship the company based on myths and snobbery more than on actual facts. It has been argued a zillion times that Apple products are better designed and built than Microsoft Windows based ones, and there has been always the argument that Microsoft represented the dark http://electromate.blogspot.com/2010/06/disregard-for-market-and-apple-myth.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (feneuk)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21321105.post-1422936077700895554Tue, 29 Jun 2010 22:34:00 +00002010-06-29T23:34:09.223+01:00The situation could have happened in any European country and the potential buyer/victim be from almost any developing country or the US. After selecting something expensive to buy in a store and having the store attendant to confirm that the items is in stock (most of the times having the item brought to the counter), a valid credit card with sufficient credit limit is not accepted because not http://electromate.blogspot.com/2010/06/lack-of-technological-neutrality-as.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (feneuk)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21321105.post-7205195158583162278Wed, 07 Apr 2010 20:17:00 +00002010-04-07T21:20:26.614+01:00 There has been some noise in the cyberspace referring to the so called “electronic divorce”, which seems is making waves in some places, like Jordan. The issue relates to husbands terminating their marriage via a SMS, and the “fashion” has pick up quickly. According to Islamic judges there were 450 divorces via SMS in Jordan in 2009. Moral questions aside, the legal problems are various and http://electromate.blogspot.com/2010/04/divorce-by-sms-in-arab-countries-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (feneuk)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21321105.post-2707666879794290390Wed, 31 Mar 2010 14:38:00 +00002010-03-31T15:46:52.621+01:00Andres has sent the information that the call for papers and registration is open for Gikii 5. This year it goes back to the city that saw its birth, Edinburgh, but a couple of months earlier, June. Described as "a workshop concerned with exploring the legal interaction between popular culture, speculative fiction, and new technologies" Gikii is a place in the space-time continuum that does not http://electromate.blogspot.com/2010/03/gikii-goes-back-home.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (feneuk)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21321105.post-3380792576139218392Tue, 02 Mar 2010 12:47:00 +00002010-03-02T13:00:40.658Z39 JAIIO - 39 JORNADAS ARGENTINAS DE INFORMÁTICA -30 de Agosto al 3 de Septiembre de 2010Ciudad Autónoma de Buenos AiresSADIO, la Sociedad Argentina de Informática e Investigación Operativa organiza desde hace 38 años las JAIIO (Jornadas Argentinas de Informática e Investigación Operativa) integrando trabajos, investigaciones y actividades bajo un mismo evento. Las JAIIO constituyen uno de los http://electromate.blogspot.com/2010/03/call-for-papers-for-argentine-symposium.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (feneuk)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21321105.post-8689607397859454943Sun, 08 Nov 2009 23:50:00 +00002009-11-08T23:56:09.245ZMore than three months have past since the last posting on this blog and every day that passes it becomes more difficult to re-start to write on it. Not because there are no topics or will to do it but because so many things have happened since the end of July in the e-commerce, IP, IT and related areas that one wouldn’t know where to start from. So, I was waiting for the opportunity, topic that http://electromate.blogspot.com/2009/11/new-ibero-american-network-of-law-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (feneuk)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21321105.post-9029064062614602896Fri, 31 Jul 2009 12:32:00 +00002009-08-01T22:19:42.940+01:00On Friday the English High Court ruled that Gary McKinnon, who fought a long legal battle to avoid being extradited to the U.S. after he was charged with breaking into 97 computers belonging to different branches of the US Government and military in 2001, should face extradition because that represented ''a lawful and proportionate response to his offending.'' Did it?When one starts to analyse http://electromate.blogspot.com/2009/07/too-many-strange-unanswered-questions.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (feneuk)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21321105.post-928440624868656539Thu, 30 Jul 2009 23:10:00 +00002009-07-31T00:19:59.924+01:00A district court in Argentina has ruled that Google and Yahoo have to pay A$ 50,000 in damages for indexing pages where the name of Virginha Da Cunha and her image have been linked to sexual and erotic content. The claimant, an actress, singer and composer (not being in Argentina never heard about her before), sued the search engines alleging the illegal use of her image and claiming A$ 50,000 inhttp://electromate.blogspot.com/2009/07/ruling-against-google-and-yahoo-in.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (feneuk)1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21321105.post-6507382870837522776Wed, 29 Jul 2009 14:03:00 +00002009-07-29T15:11:28.845+01:00The United States Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuits ruled on Monday that part of Blackboard’s U.S. Patent No. 6,988,138 (“the ’138 patent”), which claims an Internet-based educational support system and related methods, is invalid, and reversed the lower court decision that imposed damages of U$S 3,300,000 to Desire2Learn for infringing that patent. The later company has always argued http://electromate.blogspot.com/2009/07/blackboard-software-patent-litigation.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (feneuk)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21321105.post-6295711444489679710Wed, 08 Jul 2009 16:06:00 +00002009-07-08T17:30:57.659+01:00Newspapers carry the news that yet another girl has been abducted after online grooming and it seems that we could have a news service devoted to things that children have been doing (and they shouldn’t) online and/or what some depraved people have done (or tried to do) to children by using Internet. Probably more than half of the time/space of that news service would be filled with analysis http://electromate.blogspot.com/2009/07/quis-custodiet-ipsos-custodes-or.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (feneuk)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21321105.post-4189364491919918171Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:55:00 +00002009-06-21T00:50:22.314+01:00P2PcopyrightdamagesUSIn Capitol v Jammie Thomas-Rasset the jury just handed down a sentence of U$S1,920,000 against the defendant for the wilful copyright infringement of 24 songs, which they found Mrs Thomas-Rasset made available for others to download through Kazaa. The claimant (plaintiff in the case because is in the US), Capitol Records, alleged that the defendant made available to others thousands of songs but http://electromate.blogspot.com/2009/06/ruling-of-us17454545-per-song-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (feneuk)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21321105.post-3081962083080992558Wed, 17 Jun 2009 17:04:00 +00002009-06-21T00:51:22.465+01:00litigationUKcopyrightHarry PotterThe Australian Daily Telegraph brings the news that the estate of Adrian Jacobs is suing JK Rowling’s publisher, Bloomsbury, for copyright infringement and claiming £500 million. The suit has its origin on the allegation that Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire contains the same concepts presented in Jacobs’ Willy the Wizard, a 36 page book of which 1,000 copies were made. According to the http://electromate.blogspot.com/2009/06/harry-potter-yet-again-in-court-or.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (feneuk)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21321105.post-1423231516408885080Tue, 16 Jun 2009 22:24:00 +00002009-06-21T00:52:27.308+01:00UKblogsmedia lawToday The Times has announced proudly that a “Landmark ruling lifts lid on police blogger”, referring to a case that The Times won against the author of the Nightjack blog (who tried to get an injunction preventing The Times from revealing his name). But is it something to be really proud of? Or, like the music industry using courts to stop the unstoppable and try to save a failed business model,http://electromate.blogspot.com/2009/06/is-times-using-courts-to-curtail.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (feneuk)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21321105.post-7789388707655471393Thu, 04 Jun 2009 18:27:00 +00002009-06-21T00:53:18.236+01:00performers rightscopyrightArgentinaAfter more than a month away from this version of cyberspace, some strange IP news brings me back to drink legal mate (and leave my marking for a while).A couple of days ago an Argentine judge ordered the ruling party, the Peronism that uses the name Partido Justicialista (well, a coalition called Frente para la Victoria –Front for Victory- purporting to be the party), to stop using the most http://electromate.blogspot.com/2009/06/argentine-copyright-case-with-political.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (feneuk)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21321105.post-7132535809331658836Thu, 23 Apr 2009 21:44:00 +00002009-06-21T00:54:47.601+01:00SwedenIFPIcopyrightdirty tricksThe last few days the wires have been busy transmitting information and analysis about the recent Swedish court case that convicted Frederik Neij, Gottfrid Svartholm Warg, Carl Lundstrom and Peter Sunde, who run Pirate Bay, to one year in jail for the crime of copyright infringement. However, today the same case has come to the spotlight for a different reason, showing that, once again, the moralhttp://electromate.blogspot.com/2009/04/ooops-they-did-it-again-or-something.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (feneuk)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21321105.post-1737371387935599429Tue, 21 Apr 2009 12:51:00 +00002009-06-21T00:55:38.052+01:00copyrightinfringersinternational law Much ink and bytes have been devoted to the issue of the ruling against the Scandinavian site Pirate Bay and it could be argued that there is no much point of analyse it again here, for extemporaneous and for repetitive. However, it is a good opportunity to reflect on the use, or better said misuse, of the word pirate within the context of IP law and the clear intentionality that such use http://electromate.blogspot.com/2009/04/on-pirates-infringers-and-choice-of.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (feneuk)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21321105.post-2260463928756194845Sat, 11 Apr 2009 14:34:00 +00002009-06-21T00:56:25.390+01:00scuba divingcomputer lawinsuranceJapanYesterday was a fine day in Wakayama prefecture in Japan, and a day that I enjoyed visiting the other 70% of the planet, the sea. I went to Kushimoto from Nagoya to have a couple of dives with the very nice and friendly people of Coral Queen. The day started with a dive in Soushima 2 where, following the plan, we first went down to the first plateau at 12 metres, then to the second step at 21 to http://electromate.blogspot.com/2009/04/couple-of-dives-in-japan-and-potential.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (feneuk)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21321105.post-8961751561689625020Tue, 07 Apr 2009 23:01:00 +00002009-06-21T00:57:43.398+01:00normsRegulationJapanYesterday I arrived into my beloved Japan after almost three years not visiting the land of the Chrysanthemum and the first few hours here reminded me how far the country is in some technological, organizational and social issues from the Western world. The story should start with landing in Chubu International Airport, located on a purpose-man-made island and an example of efficiency and http://electromate.blogspot.com/2009/04/back-to-future-almost-or-arriving-into.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (feneuk)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21321105.post-8207555114446831593Sun, 08 Mar 2009 22:24:00 +00002009-06-21T00:58:41.013+01:00UKmass mediaRegulationThese days I have been receiving some interesting emails from several places, some of them making good jokes on almost everything and others informing about changes of policy of sites where I buy things. One of them related to a change of policy in Ebay.co.uk and it exemplified the need for evidence-based policy making, the imperative necessity of having regulation enacted by those elected to do http://electromate.blogspot.com/2009/03/regulation-under-pressure-and.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (feneuk)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21321105.post-8301529546988699034Thu, 26 Feb 2009 17:35:00 +00002009-06-21T01:01:06.965+01:00professional negligenceUKMcSciencecompanies valuationThe “news” that a top neuroscientist linked the use of some social websites to children’s shortened attention spans, encouragement of instant gratification and young people becoming more self-centred, spread around the world like a bush fire but, is there any substance behind that claim or we are in the presence of yet another instance of irresponsible attention seeking by a “supposedly” top http://electromate.blogspot.com/2009/02/mcscience-courts-of-law-and-valuation.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (feneuk)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21321105.post-7338736715637297575Mon, 16 Feb 2009 18:16:00 +00002009-02-16T18:24:42.833ZAn English comedian recognized breaking intentionally a member of the audience’s mobile phone and added that he didn’t regret it because people were “stealing” comedians’ jokes and they should be protected as films. It is difficult to even start the analysis when somebody claims a right to commit a crime, criminal damage, to protect a right that, in principle, does not have. The strict, basic http://electromate.blogspot.com/2009/02/what-joke-comedian-wanting-copyright-on.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (feneuk)0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-21321105.post-7038071893533324287Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:15:00 +00002009-02-09T18:26:54.824ZSome minor stir has been caused by the news that the famous “hope” Obama poster has been heavily based on a photography for which AP seems to have copyright. The fastest given, most common and probably most desirable answer has been that the work is protected by the fair use doctrine. Being a staunch supporter of the expansion of the fair use doctrine at international level and having put my http://electromate.blogspot.com/2009/02/obama-poster-and-fair-use-fairy-tales.htmlnoreply@blogger.com (feneuk)1