On Copyright

As a result of the EP’s LIBE committee report on the EU Copyright Regulation, in Feb 2015, I built a Storify page and propose to write a blog article. This page captures some of the resources I used to write it. They come from my blog, the IP Kat, out-law.com, torrentfreak and flickr, where martin…

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Parliament TV

I was point at a Parliament TV clip from the House of Commons and wanted to experiment with using the stop parameter. The http code is as follows,

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Labour’s Rule Book

This is my Labour Party Rules Page. It contains links to various Labour Party rules, policies and guidelines. This page has a bitly alias https://bit.ly/labourrules . …

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More research on e-voting

I was pointed at, The Norwegian trial with Internet voting: results and challenges by an attendee at 31C3.  The summary states there is no evidence that it increases turnout and concludes,

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Estonia e-voting

Estonia is becoming the touchstone and proof of good e-voting practice. It has failed its audits in the last elections.

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Yvette Cooper at Demos

This is/was a note on a speech made by Yvette Cooper called the challenges of a Digital World to our security and liberty. This has a link to the speech, but was made in May 2014, the world has moved on. As ever my review of Labour front-bench speeches proves/proved to optimistic. I have marked…

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Code is Law

Lessig’s article, “Code is Law” for Harvard Magazine is here. I have made a .pdf here and a.docx here. both hosted on this bliki site.

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Convoy’s Wharf

I returned to this in March as the Mayor sought comments in the final stage of consultation before agreeing or rejecting outline planning permission. New Cross Labour have published Joan Ruddock’s submission on their web site, here. She is arguing for the cultural planning gain represented by the Sayes Court Garden project and the Build…

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UK Parliament Embedding Terms of Use

I chose to embed a parliamentary video cast in one of my blog articles and this is the agreement required before it can be embedded. I can’t find a link, otherwise I’d do so. This was created in Dec 2013.

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Labour Party Membership

Decided to try and draw a graph of the Labour Party’s membership over time, not as easy as you might think. Here are some links I found that might help me, Wikipedia, Labour Party #membership Electoral Commission, Party & Election Finance Registers Electoral Commission, Party & Election Finance Search If i get some good data,…

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Intellectual Property Law

I made an omnibus article of my writings on open source, culture and copyright. This was dated 2012 in the blog but references earlier material. Some of it still holds good, some of it is passed it’s sell by date.

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British Higher Education

Decline & Fall In Feb 2007, a manifesto/biography entitled Decline and Fall of the British University appeared on the internet but its host site disappeared pretty quickly. The Google cache has also expired now. It was signed by Mark Tarver, who argues that the expansion of student numbers and the increased and payment of tuition…

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