Tag Archives: legal blunders

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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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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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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Joining the resistance

Posted on January 30, 2011 by

I recently joined the Estonian Internet Community , a non-profit entity created as a public reaction to the infamous Estonian Internet domain reform. It’s probably  already covered  by other bloggers, but here’s a brief account about what has been brewing … 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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