International Law

Online video grows via P2P

Posted on January 14, 2008
At a presentation in Australia late last year [1997], Optus' general manager, technology and planning, Peter Ferris, revealed that peer-to-peer traffic, almost exclusively video, soaked up more than 90% of the capacity on Optus' international Internet links during the night time, off-peak, period...

Project management rules for IT proposals and contracts

Posted on January 03, 2008
Software development agreements vary a lot. Long gone are the days of software development agreements with a stable state range of clauses. This conclusion arose after recent IT contract drafting work. It inspired Practical Rap: Drafting IT Contracts With Foresight (ip-tech-e-biz/practical-rap-drafting-it-contracts-with-foresight-14...

Creative Commons licences are useful but oversold

Posted on January 02, 2008
Creative Commons is a popular movement feeding on a populist anti-copyright molopolists zeitgeist growing in recent decades, particularly among academics, hackers and the digerati. The reception given to Creative Commons has been so positive and widespread that it has obscured the fact that it is the right solution some of the time; it is not all of the solution for all people all of the time...

In 2008 I'll rejoice if...

Posted on December 21, 2007
1. People (including our managing partner) realise the iPhone, though sexy, is not a new deity to be worshipped! 2. Old world corporations and organisations finally move out of the dark ages and into the new media reality. 3. Clients stop treating lawyers like the fire brigade – only calling when their house is on fire...

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In 2008 I'll groan each time...

Posted on December 20, 2007
1. A conference organiser uses 2.0 after a one word conference title. 2. Writers spring to their keyboards after every news blip from Google, Microsoft or Facebook. 3. People and governments don't realise how much the world has changed in recent years...

Cue > Intellectual property, commercialisation and business law enewsletter, Dec 2007

Posted on December 20, 2007
Cue is the Dilanchian enewsletter for clients, collaborators and colleagues. Each month subscribers receive one Cue email. Cue is a selected list of our articles and Lightbulb blog posts on IP and business law. Subscribe to Cue (component/option,com_contact/task,view/contact_id,3/) or to our full RSS feed (rd-rss/index...

Business model defined

Posted on December 20, 2007
Intellectual property does not make money on its own. It needs a suitable business model. To illustrate that truism, flash back to the 1970s and the ever-fascinating PARC riddle. The riddle is: Why was so much invented and created at PARC, yet so little gained in financial terms by the owner of PARC? The owner of PARC was Xerox...

Jurisdiction clauses, legal rules and rulers

Posted on December 19, 2007
AAP reports (http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,22948623-2703,00.html) that this week a Magna Carta manuscript was sold at a Sotheby's auction for A$24.8 million to an anonymous telephone bidder. Ross Perot's foundation has owned it since 1984...

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