Category Archives: Law

Show must go on

Posted on February 9, 2012 by

Lucky, lucky Mr Laar…  He was relieved almost overnight of his dubiously honourable burden of bearing the title of “The Guy Who Filled Up Facebook” (see the previous post).  His coalition partner, the Prime Minister of the Republic of Estonia … Continue reading →

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How Mart managed to fill up Facebook

Posted on February 3, 2012 by

(the story is actually nearly a week old by now, but I had no time to write about it earlier. It might still be of interest to somebody) The international tragicomical farce called ACTA (Anti-Counterfeit Trade Agreement) has reached Estonia … Continue reading →

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Wow!

Posted on October 9, 2011 by

In my various lectures about legal aspects of IT, I’ve often used the hypothetical example of “what if Sir Timothy Berners-Lee had patented the Web?” (it would have been able to start developing freely from the year we have now). … Continue reading →

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Stealing the (very) old dreams

Posted on July 24, 2011 by

The JSTOR affair is really a new level of absurdity in the already pretty crazy world of ‘intellectual property’.  A very good overview is provided by Glyn Moody at his Open Enterprise blog. The man who copied a bunch of … Continue reading →

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The same old tired song

Posted on May 12, 2011 by

BSA Estonia is apparently still not tired of singing the same stale litany… Quoting the article from ERR: “On one side, people have a habit of unknowingly using unlicensed software, and secondly, there is a popular misconception that using pirated … Continue reading →

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Protect the authors… from themselves

Posted on February 3, 2011 by

The story was so absurd that it made it to the  TV evening news (which typically do not bother on similar blunders) yesterday. Two popular Estonian musicians teamed up and jammed some. Wrote a song, wrote its lyrics, recorded the … Continue reading →

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Creativecommons.ee

Posted on January 7, 2011 by

The Estonian localisation of CC licenses is finally completed. It was quite a rough ride – the initial enthusiasts who started the process had to step aside, after a while the process was picked up by the Estonian Information Technology … Continue reading →

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Brief thoughts on Wikileaks

Posted on December 8, 2010 by

Julian Assange has been caught. The Evil Four of the Pirate Bay likewise. Everyone can sleep in peace now. Not likely. Neither Wikileaks nor the Pirate Bay will disappear. And if, by any chance, someone could manage to obliterate them, … Continue reading →

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CreativeCommons.ee

Posted on November 5, 2010 by

About a year later than originally intended, the Estonian localisation of the main six Creative Commons licenses has been finished. The promotional event concluded a couple of hours ago at EITC, my slides (sorry, in Estonian) are available at SlideShare … Continue reading →

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