http://www.anoasis.co.uk/law/ One of those fascinating law School diaries. en-us paul@anoasis.co.uk 2006-09-18T03:05:31+00:00 hourly 1 2000-01-01T12:00+00:00 http://www.anoasis.co.uk/content/2006/09/18/Law/tenuous_marketing_email_from_amazon.html From my Inbox:Dear Amazon.co.uk Customer, We've noticed that customers who have expressed interest in Secrets of Successful Web Sites by David Siegel have also ordered Telecommunications Law of Russia: Statutes and Statutory Instruments by Markova Olga. For this reason, you... 518@http://www.anoasis.co.uk/law/ Miscellaneous 2006-09-18T03:05:31+00:00 http://www.anoasis.co.uk/content/2005/12/03/Law/creative_commons_scotland_licenses_are_live.html The Scots Law Creative Commons Licenses are now finalised and available from the Creative Commons web site. The CC Scotland effort was launched on the 2nd of April 2005 here in Edinburgh.... 483@http://www.anoasis.co.uk/law/ Intellectual Property 2005-12-03T15:04:02+00:00 http://www.anoasis.co.uk/content/2005/11/19/Law/the_english_1689_bill_of_rights.html Robin de Crittenden is a 67 year old man who lives near Wolverhampton who apparently is fighting a parking fine arguing that a provision of the 1689 Bill of Rights provides that they are unlawful;That all grants and promises of... 481@http://www.anoasis.co.uk/law/ Legal System 2005-11-19T08:40:27+00:00 http://www.anoasis.co.uk/content/2005/10/05/Law/good_to_be_back.html I have had a great summer! I've been mountain biking all over the place in Scotland, had a week in Brussels and two weeks in California and I have had time to think and relax and get some loose ends... 467@http://www.anoasis.co.uk/law/ School 2005-10-05T05:43:45+00:00 http://www.anoasis.co.uk/content/2005/05/19/Law/it_may_be_cold_but_its_still_summer.html I had my last exam on Tuesday. Didn't do much to celebrate because I was pretty tired, but as A-L dutifuly reports the gym and playing pool were the activities of the rest of the day. So, I guess I'm... 426@http://www.anoasis.co.uk/law/ School 2005-05-19T02:40:05+00:00 http://www.anoasis.co.uk/content/2005/04/28/Law/exam_over.html Int'l Law exam this a.m. at 9.30. Last night I thought I'd covered most things and about midnight debated whether to do more on the Law of the Sea. I did, fell asleep about 6 and woke at 9.10. Oops.... 394@http://www.anoasis.co.uk/law/ International Law 2005-04-28T01:58:22+00:00 http://www.anoasis.co.uk/content/2005/04/15/Law/diversity_in_creative_licenses.html Andres Guadamuz comments on the BBC/C4/bfi/OU Creative License and points out the key differences between it and the Creative Commons Licensing 'platform'. Namelythe CAL is "very territorial"2.1 The Licensor hereby grants to You a Non-Commercial, No-Endorsement, payment-free, non-exclusive licence within... 388@http://www.anoasis.co.uk/law/ Intellectual Property 2005-04-15T22:11:44+00:00 http://www.anoasis.co.uk/content/2005/04/13/Law/bbc_creative_archive_launch.html The BBC have launched today their BBC Creative Archive License Group.The Creative Archive Licence Group was formed on April 13th 2005 to promote the use of a single, shared user licence scheme for the downloading of moving images, audio and... 384@http://www.anoasis.co.uk/law/ Intellectual Property 2005-04-13T17:11:39+00:00 http://www.anoasis.co.uk/content/2005/04/02/Law/larry_lessig_scotland_and_creative_commons.html I've just been at an Edinburgh Science Festival event, Cyberlaw: who controls access to ideas on the net?. Organised by the Edinburgh School of Law's AHRB Research Centre for Studies in Intellectual Property and Technology Law, the panel was... 374@http://www.anoasis.co.uk/law/ Intellectual Property 2005-04-02T20:36:28+00:00 http://www.anoasis.co.uk/content/2005/02/14/Law/lessig_on_lessig_in_the_west_wing.html Larry Lessig comments on his portrayal in the West Wing:" it captured beautifully the single most important thing that I learned from my years working on "constitutionalism" in Eastern Europe: That 90% of the challenge is to build a culture... 341@http://www.anoasis.co.uk/law/ Constitutional 2005-02-14T00:43:23+00:00 http://www.anoasis.co.uk/content/2005/02/02/Law/new_journal_european_constitutional_law_review.html There's a new journal on the go, the European Constitutional Law Review. All content is free, presumably for this month only, and looks worthy of a trawl through.... 325@http://www.anoasis.co.uk/law/ Europe 2005-02-02T01:11:38+00:00 http://www.anoasis.co.uk/content/2004/12/15/Law/uk_supreme_court_location_announced.html The constitutional shake up which was on ice due to lack of a suitable building and then narrowed down to Middlesex Guildhall or Somerset House might be back on track with an announcement that Middlesex Guildhall will be the home... 294@http://www.anoasis.co.uk/law/ Legal System 2004-12-15T17:50:54+00:00 http://www.anoasis.co.uk/content/2004/12/13/Law/christmas_holiday_2004.html With the completion of my exam this afternoon in the principles of the 'dismal science' comes holiday time! The exam was I think pretty easy... But that's irrelevant now. I've got a few bits of 'other work' to finish up... 288@http://www.anoasis.co.uk/law/ School 2004-12-13T16:06:28+00:00 http://www.anoasis.co.uk/content/2004/12/02/Law/sony_bullying_blogger.html Sony are being nasty to Jason Kottke over his posting of Jeopardy 'spoilers' - af all things. I don't really understand why they have any kind of control of what he says, he is presumably not in some kind of... 281@http://www.anoasis.co.uk/law/ Miscellaneous 2004-12-02T20:45:28+00:00 http://www.anoasis.co.uk/content/2004/11/28/Law/abolition_of_feudal_tenure.html Today marks the end of 880 years of legal history with the abolition of the remnants of a feudal system (i.e. "the entire system whereby land is held by a vassal on perpetual tenure from a superior") in Scotland. This... 273@http://www.anoasis.co.uk/law/ Scots 2004-11-28T04:12:46+00:00