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Category: Law

  • Add your voice to the illegal file-sharing debate

    News today that the government is pledging to combat internet piracy in the UK with a series of new measures, including £50,000 fines for those found guilty of illegal file-sharing. The Guardian says that the move is being pushed through…

  • Talking social media for lawyers

    As someone who enjoys experimenting, I count this as a first – a conversation with an influential lawyer-blogger, podcaster and tweeter in the UK, recorded and released as a podcast. I had a great 30-minute conversation this afternoon with Mike…

  • Obama images and not-so-fair use?

    The image of US President Barack Obama that you see here is one of the iconic symbols of the man and what so many people believe this image embodies. The poster image on the right is one that captured so…

  • Paying attention to copyright

    One topic I’ve written about before in this blog is copyright, prompted in particular by my continuing puzzlement about why we continue to use laws that are based on geography in an age where intellectual property is increasingly digital and…

  • The Facebook jury

    If you have to serve on a jury in a criminal trial, you’d more than likely think very carefully about discussing that trial outside the jury room and what’s going on in court. You wouldn’t blog about it, tweet it…