111007

Huge Victory As #EU #Green Party Group Adopts Pirate Perspective On #Copyright Monopoly - http://bit.ly/oV3PuR v important alignment here

RT @Glinner Remember that 'present' Blair&Co gave Gaddafi? He's suing bit.ly/oLxPWr >> ha! brilliantly put

The Whole Earth Catalog Online: The “Bible” of Steve Jobs’ Generation - http://bit.ly/nhZr0u freely available online

#GM crops safety assessments: present limits & possible improvements - http://bit.ly/nkk2a2 worrying: more research needed

RT @Court of Appeal has granted permission to appeal the Digital Economy Act judicial review decision #DEAct >>fab

#Linux is a Hot Topic in #Philippines - http://bit.ly/qzLEeu "government shall apply only FOSS or Foss solutions in all ICT projects"

Judge Makes Company Pay More For Infringement Because CEO Complained Publicly About The Patent System - http://bit.ly/pXiwdt fair? hardly

Lawrence Lessig on How We Lost Our Democracy - http://bit.ly/oQweaq tantalising except from #lessig's new book #lobbying

Ada Lovelace Day has begun! - http://bit.ly/o4q7Jc but you probably already knew that

New Record Label Will Give Out All Its Music For Free; Wants Fans To Subscribe To The Label - http://bit.ly/qqkoZj great to see #abundance

RT @farwestchina The beautiful faces of #Xinjiang http://bit.ly/nPyAqY (h/t @JennyLau)>> lovely images #pix

Which #VPN Providers Really Take Anonymity Seriously? - http://bit.ly/nTZdUo good question, with some answers

Introducing OpenData.cz – open data initiative from Czech Republic - http://bit.ly/qaV8Lg great to see another one #opendata #cz

KindFriends - http://bit.ly/oLW7Nq "I have decided to call this selection by associative opportunity." sounds plausible

Lawrence Golan Speaks About His Fight To Protect The Public Domain - http://bit.ly/nwz4xH how the public domain was stolen, & what we lose

last post referring to this: RT @Mark_Antony Hear it from Bristol City Council themselves: http://bit.ly/n2VkYn #ossplease #ukgovit

The Scholarly Poor: The Climate Code Foundation - http://bit.ly/ngLCcV definitely a worthy cause (I'm on its advisory board...) #openaccess

Computer #virus hits US Predator and Reaper drone fleet - http://bit.ly/npcllr er, so they're running all this on #Windows? riiight...

Massive #Cornwall rockfall captured on video - http://bit.ly/rgzBz9 impressive #geology

 

111006

The Court Decision On Streaming Shakespeare At UCLA—What It Really Means - http://bit.ly/oMnjTI all about "sovereign immunity"

Parliament Committee Urges EU Commission To Support Print Disabilities Treaty - http://bit.ly/oSouWY so let's do it

P is for… - http://bit.ly/ptFEMz and Ubuntu 12.04 will be called....

Software Is Mathematics - The Need for Due Diligence, by PolR - http://bit.ly/ok8Kwt another great, deep post from #groklaw #swpats

Wikimedia receives $3.5million grant from Stanton Foundation - http://bit.ly/q5VdWd great news #wikipedia

Bruce Schneier's Status Report: Liars and Outliers - http://bit.ly/nAD7JX sounds like it will be a fascinating book #security #trust

The Pirate Bay Adds Domain to Bypass Court Order - http://bit.ly/q9aq3K first but not the last #censorship

Will Barack Obama break his GM food labelling promise? - http://bit.ly/qTTshJ is the pope etc etc #betrayal

How do You Like your Net Neutrality: Weak or Strong? - http://bit.ly/odQ7fN could this new approach square the #netneutrality circle?

Met loses diary that may have proven former chief's links to Rupert Murdoch - http://ind.pn/oOGU4e gosh, bit of a coincidence that, no?

Not faking it: H ... H ..Halliburton gets simulation patent after all - http://bit.ly/rdaz7p really bad UK decision on #swpats

Rackspace gives up the OpenStack reins - http://bit.ly/pF2eop good move for openness #cloudcomputing

The Electric Leviathan - http://onforb.es/nRkyeu from Venkatesh Rao; looks intriguing #blogs

My response to the UK Open Data consultation: from @CountCulture- http://bit.ly/pTvyZj "like it or not, we now live in a ‘Big Data’ world"

Is #ACTA Enforceable? - http://bit.ly/r8H7DJ now there's a good question (v @mgeist)

Is It Legal To TiVo The Radio? - http://bit.ly/nKDHWE #copyright maximalists trying hard to tell the public what it can/can't do

GMO cultivation drops in EU, except in Spain and Portugal - http://bit.ly/pb1Aqn just not wanted

Slew of whale deaths mystifies scientists - http://bit.ly/pznn0a "North Atlantic #whales [may live] up to 200-300 years": wow, just wow

Getty Images Facing Upwards To 80 Million Trademark Claims? - http://bit.ly/qXtCze legal madness spreads (v @copyrightgirl @MMP_Photography)

Cheap tablet computer leads #India's drive to tackle rural poverty - http://bit.ly/nQihwA useful background of #android system

Intellectual Ventures Files Patent Infringement Complaint Against Motorola Mobility - http://bit.ly/ox5qdz inevitable (v @FOSSpatents)

Dutch Government Will Release Geodata and Satellite Images - http://bit.ly/pUfG1g great move #opendata #geodata #nl (v @karounos)

#techdirt Video Contest: Create A PSA Video Showing The Impact Of Technology On Creativity - http://bit.ly/q9WFIn with $1000 prize

111005

 

#Brazil Drafts An 'Anti-#ACTA': A Civil Rights-Based Framework For The Internet - http://bit.ly/pCpohQ we could learn a lot from it

Classifying #Patent and #Copyright Law as “Property”: So What? - http://bit.ly/paTjdZ debunking the "IP" trick #intellectualmonopolies

Why I believe AAPL will crumble ... - http://bit.ly/n0pjsR excellent: provocative & thought-provoking #apple #ecosystems

Pirate politician: We want open, online government - http://bit.ly/pIBs7R hmm, not sure that pic quite conveys the right image...

Officer accused of terrorizing citizens, still on force - http://bit.ly/n73WLB man in diabetic coma "beaten to a pulp"; disgusting

Hats off to the Global Text Project! - http://bit.ly/pzP3mf "engaging academic communities to help build library of free online textbooks"

California wants to put GMO labeling on 2012 ballot - http://bit.ly/ngHjZ1 outrageous that USians aren't allowed to know what they eat

“Fossil Fuels Are Wonderful,” Claims U.S. Documentary - http://bit.ly/nqshHM called "Spoiled" - just like the environment #fud #energy

Kickstarter Hit With #Patent Claim Over Crowd-Funding - http://tcrn.ch/qMgt23 no comment necessary (v @Beautyon_) #trolls

Digital Monopolies A Bigger Threat Than #Piracy, Says Miramax CEO - http://bit.ly/qsrfvo more people get it #copyright

Happy 5th Birthday, #Wikileaks - http://rww.to/nU25zJ how time flies when you're having fun

#Wikimedia Foundation to Launch #Arabic Catalyst - http://bit.ly/qSunw1 excellent

IBM open sources Blue Spruce to aid medical research - http://bit.ly/o3exDT more please

EU faces down #tarsands industry - http://bit.ly/pYZB2N kudos to European Commission (can't believe I wrote that...) #energy #lobbying

#Samsung asks European trademark agency to void #Apple’s iPad design rights - http://tnw.co/r3ttD3 think of the money being wasted here

Massive #privacy issue with new #Norway law to tackle #copyright infringement - http://bit.ly/rmk2hm this is seriously bad news

New UK Banknote Celebrates James Watt, #Patent Bully and Monopolist - http://bit.ly/nLQx81 innovation? not so much

Success: Barbie and Mattel drop #deforestation! - http://bit.ly/oTQgv1 ah, isn't that just so sweet? #packaging

Creating a web literate planet (summary) - http://bit.ly/oEQujY a great idea, I think - provided we drop the badges... #mozilla

#Guantánamo film shows plight of Canadian national detained at 15 - http://bit.ly/psUOeJ yeah: why the West will win that War on Terror

Princeton Tells Its Academics Not to Hand Over #Copyright When Publishing In Scholarly Journals - http://bit.ly/rgoYu1 big #openaccess win

Rooftop #QR Codes Aim to Infiltrate Google Maps - http://on.mash.to/odxDxl how long before these link to #malware?

Pay-Per-View Science for the Scholarly Poor is unacceptable: immoral, unethical and encourages bad science - http://bit.ly/oPTOMA yup

Urgent crowd-source request: social media, privacy & super-injunctions - http://bit.ly/oDfuTy "for written evidence to the Joint Committee"

German #Pirates on 8% - http://bit.ly/oNtkwi this is getting interesting; wonder when the politicians will notice? #de

#Net Neutrality: the Plum report on the Open Internet - http://bbc.in/mY7U9o commissioned by BBC, but looks sensible #openness

Access To Italian #Wikipedia Blocked In Protest Of Wiretapping Bill In #Italy - http://bit.ly/nm6dNk end of Italian #blogging? #censorship

Bletchley Park lands £4.6m restoration bonanza - http://bit.ly/pCN73U at last, some well-deserved dosh #turing

follow-up to "New UK Banknote Celebrates James Watt, Patent Bully and Monopolist" - http://bit.ly/nijDgs links to monopoly sceptics

Newzbin2 Team Up With The Pirate Bay To Defeat Site Blocking - http://bit.ly/nq4LZJ copyright enforcement drives evolution: it's that simple

111004

India, 25 others oppose EU airline carbon charge plan - http://bit.ly/rm4Pah "discriminatory"; hardly - it applies to everyone

EPT Award for indviduals in developing countries working for OA - http://bit.ly/n1IQB7 nice #openaccess

Simulación, sushi y la firma del ACTA - http://bit.ly/pa5Mct useful summary in Spanish of the Great #ACTA Farce

Vast shark sanctuary created in Pacific - http://bbc.in/rpN1Va amazing: some good news at last #conservation

Pub can use foreign decoder for Premier League games - http://bbc.in/nRJJz1 important ruling (v @copyrightgirl)#copyright #eu

São Paulo releases all educational materials under #cc licence [pt] - http://bit.ly/mS8O8K #brazil leads the way again

#Arduino 1.0 bringing improvements and changes - http://bit.ly/q8vJEk lots of good stuff coming #openhardware

PhoneGap to become an Apache project as Adobe acquires Nitobi - http://bit.ly/qM47Fg nice to see #opensource spinoffs

Thank you Friends of the SF Public Library for 130,000 books - http://bit.ly/pmSq2j nice initiative

Organized Climate Change Denial “Played a Crucial Role in Blocking Domestic Legislation,” Top Scholars Conclude – http://bit.ly/q3yZjg

#Hackers Intervene in #Syria - http://bit.ly/oLx6Wm fascinating development: the future?

Deadly Weapons on Thingiverse - http://bit.ly/oPKCYT how easy should printing guns be? #3dprinters

Google opens #Gmail up to the developing world with feature-phone signup - http://tnw.co/oHMM4H so why didn't they do this before?

#Copyright law turns kids into criminals - Reform will enrich artists & public - http://bit.ly/reCYtZ do we want to criminalise our future?

LibreOffice Is One - http://bit.ly/oCpQMs useful reminder of where it came from, where it's going #opensource

#RedHat to Acquire Gluster - http://red.ht/n6O3cD "#opensource storage software company with development in Bangalore, #India."

111003

Genetically Engineered Food - http://bit.ly/onroqj "US experiment with GE food has been a failure. " good debunking of "#Monsanto myths" #gm

Europe refuses to rule use of trademarks in Google Adwords as infringement - http://bit.ly/q9YaJ3 good decision (v @nashtonhart @jamie_love)

#OrphanWorks – A Very Limited Proposal - http://bit.ly/q1Z5lM grateful for small mercies #eu #copyright

HuffPo at One Biiiilllliiion Monthly Page Views: More Buying, More Launching, More Hiring - http://dthin.gs/pEJDMp love or loathe it, it's big

Anonymous #Twitter alternative developed for rioters - http://bit.ly/ohlhrS but only for iPhone?

Carbon credits tarnished by human rights 'disgrace '- http://bit.ly/q6ObJ6 #palmoil - murderous as well as harmful

Occupy Wall Street Protesters Accepting Donations in #Bitcoin; Big Test for the Controversial Virtual Currency - http://t.co/Y3Aa3QDZ hmm

RT @DaHammerstein Treaty Visually Impaired before European Parliament at aprox. 15:30. Webstream: bit.ly/kQgrDf info: bit.ly/oDLbL0

Why Not NC (Non Commercial) - http://bit.ly/qxzFBQ useful summary of why NC is not the best choice #licensing #cc #oer

“Rumors are a Cancer that Threatens the Internet & Society” - http://bit.ly/oNP8gW "pay the deserved price for crimes" #china #censorship

Pirates and Librarians: Big Media, Technology, and the Role of Liberal Education - http://bit.ly/nuXXZj thoughtful stuff #openaccess

#Android #trojan hides behind #QR code - http://bit.ly/oLHL0S sneaky

Theorizing Ushahidi: An Academic Treatise - http://bit.ly/pSg6Bz great post about why #opensource #ushahidi is so important

Oil Lobbyists Targeting “Super Committee” - http://bit.ly/qbfUCf this is not going to end well #lobbying #energy #environment

Project Mango kick-off - http://bit.ly/ppCn8P 2The next Open Movie project by the Blender Institute" more #blender goodness

fab pic of Richard Stallman - http://on.fb.me/r0d7kW would be great for a caption competition... #rms #gnu

ACTA’s Threat to Access to Medicines - http://bit.ly/q8Sqhe important: this means #ACTA will inevitably lead to increased loss of life

A formula for justice - http://bit.ly/nytO5z this is insane - & an insult to mathematicians (v @ColinTheMathmo @rupertg)#stats #bayes

#BAILLI's appeal for funding - http://bit.ly/qGUAXy a crucial #openlaw resource; pl donate - I've given a tenner...http://bit.ly/qIJ1JE

MT @Copycense IP law firm questions #BSA's reported software "piracy" loss estimates is.gd/OYGMcQ #copyright >>even lawyers don't believe

#LSE's one-day workshop on 'IPRs and the Global Civil Society Reform Project: What Next?' [pdf] - http://bit.ly/qNrPZq 18 november #london

Introducing @whensmybus- http://bit.ly/ohmCLj get tweet with times of next buses for that route, in each direction, from closest stops #uk

Well, I Do Declare: Washington & Open Government Declarations - http://bit.ly/pWkeZw one good but naive, the other good but hypocritical

RT @DaHammerstein Ex-Copyright lobbyist, EU copyright Czar, Martín Prat, rejects treaty for right to read of blind persons >>such humanity

As Countries Sign #ACTA, Many Finally Admit Their Copyright Laws Will Need To Change - http://bit.ly/qOK5aY good summary of gov duplicity

Chrome for Android Finally in the Works - http://bit.ly/nLjceC why the delay? #browsers

Private Anti-#Piracy Investigator Spills The Beans - http://bit.ly/oyHp1H interesting insights into this twilight world

#Koch Brothers Flout Law With Secret Iran Sales - http://bloom.bg/pB4AtN a seriously bad company #bribery #corruption #pollution

Reinventing Discovery: The New Era of Networked Science - http://bit.ly/r4lLru important book by key #openscience chap @michael_nielsen

#Microsoft’s Patent Strategy Against #Android - http://nyti.ms/nIMkCu #NYT's decline continues: a feeble puff piece for MS bullying

"Internet download of sound recording does not constitute a public performance" - http://reut.rs/nrRWas too right... (v @howardknopf)

#Patent Troll Says Anyone Using #WiFi Infringes; Won't Sue Individuals 'At This Stage' - http://bit.ly/mY8Sxu but already suing shops

The Open University is number one on iTunes U, surpasses 40m downloads - http://tnw.co/o07lSQ it's all about sharing #ou

CORE - http://bit.ly/nXmuhJ "facilitate access & navigation across science papers stored in #OA repositories" (v @FigShare @phylogenomics)

60 French ISP Account Holders On Third Strike For Internet Piracy - http://bit.ly/nJDXQt & 650K 1st strikers who won't be voting for Sarkozy

 

111002

Dramatic Growth of #OpenAccess September 30, 2011 - http://bit.ly/qnAj3B "now over 7,000 journals, still adding more than 4 titles per day"

#Copyfraud and Classroom Performance Rights: Two Common Bogus #Copyright Claims [pdf] - http://bit.ly/qG0tTT good discussion

#Apple is now Public Enemy No 1 - http://bit.ly/oQ3n49 itneresting to see this meme spreading

#Disabled Schoolkids Were Forced to Chew on Vinegar-Soaked Cotton Balls - http://gaw.kr/rg1Ej4 this makes my blood boil

Home Secretaries and #humanrights - http://bit.ly/mQkOwj excellent, sensible stuff #uk

Invasion of the body scanners - http://bit.ly/oJCdNV welll-written piece on the continuing loss of privacy (v @Glinner @OpenRightsGroup)

Ben Goldacre asks: Can Green Open Access work for Science? My answer, no. - http://bit.ly/plwgku provocative stuff

Perry will US-Militär in Mexikos Drogenkrieg schicken - http://bit.ly/n5vjWe because that worked so well in #iraq, #afghanistan

Music Royalty Collectors Accused of Copyfraud - http://bit.ly/oPL5LN #copyfraud should be illegal: say, $150,000 per song...

Find your #MEP by region - http://bit.ly/qBgk6h very useful resource; lots of info about MEPs, declared interests etc. (v @liotier)#eu

On the #Ethics of Virtual Endings - http://bit.ly/pM3LMd moral blackmail of children online: deep one, this...

NASA: It Rained So Hard the Oceans Fell - http://bit.ly/rt3ch3 "I suspect crazy weather years like 2010 will become norm a decade from now"

#ACTA: Meeting U.S. Objectives - http://1.usa.gov/r4h7Cl one of the worst-written, most repetitious press dox I've read: duplicity personified

Return Of The High Court And Low Court - http://bit.ly/pNCsHP of course, we little people shouldn't really be reading this... #justice

PassMyWill Is A Will For Your Online Assets And Passwords - http://tcrn.ch/p52tY1 but what happens when PassMyWill dies...? #recursion

MT @petermurrayrust bit.ly/qjYRkD Conference of European National Librarians vote for CC0. Open Bibliography was created for this!>>great

111001

Will #ACTA Be Killed in the EU? - http://bit.ly/r0CSvh an over-optimistic analysis, I fear

AsktheEU.org: New one-stop portal makes requests for #EU documents easy - http://bit.ly/ouJ7vT great move: I predict a big impact #foi

#Alibaba’s Jack Ma: “We Are Very Interested” in Buying the “Whole” of #Yahoo - http://dthin.gs/naOG48 put this company out of its misery

#Portugal: Consulta Pública Regulamento de Normas Abertas - http://bit.ly/pl7ocs the key is #openstandards must be #RF, not #FRAND

#Facebook's Secret Sauce - http://bit.ly/rqyXjn "'Friends of friends' prevents Facebook from becoming a stale backwater"

Dishing the Dirt on Me and TechDirt - http://bit.ly/pSKuRX you have been warned... #blogs

Microsoft-Samsung Licensing Deal Tells Us Nothing About The Facts, Just About The FUD - http://bit.ly/rhJriZ my first "real" #techdirt piece

MT @jamie_love a strategy for #ACTA activists would be to push for statements on country understanding of flexibility in implementing ACTA

European Pirates declare war on cloners and copycats – Arrrr! (TCTV) - http://bit.ly/osrrgx interesting use of #pirate meme

Mass #BitTorrent Lawsuits Set To Plague Australia - http://bit.ly/qtIGlh haven't they learnt this doesn't work yet? #copyright

AlphaDog Proto - http://bit.ly/qs0s5D if this doesn't scare you witless, you have no imagination... #robots #robocop