‘But […] there’s another way to think about copyright: as a regulation of commercial exploitation, rather than a regulation of copying per se.’

‘People who had moved into Bermondsey street alongside the Ticino bakery, which has been there for decades, if not centuries, complained that there was a noise at 4 o’clock in the morning because people were baking bread.’

‘Businesses have built themselves into a dependency on bad driving and law breaking.’

It looks very bad for Google (and Android): they appear to have copied some files and disassembled others from Sun’s Java implementation.

Really good summary.

‘The sponsors of this campaign are confusing safe behaviour with law-abiding behaviour. You can follow every law and still put yourself in a terribly dangerous position (i.e. in the door zone).

‘Thus, the doctrine of intellectual property is extremely impractical. It grants people property rights which are unlimited in their distribution, and which extend over things in other peoples' homes, e.g., their computers, their paper, and whatever other materials might be used to encode an idea.’

‘The internet probably is the closest thing to working anarchy mankind ever had. I don’t want to, and I don’t see any point in restricting other peoples’ freedom.’

The case that established that simple collections of facts are not copyrightable under US law.

The case that established that simple reproductions of public domain works cannot be copyrighted in the US.

An incisive and depressing analysis of the human costs of the UK’s PR-driven immigration strategy.

‘Giuseppe Verdi composed in an era both without copyright and with copyright – but as soon as copyright came into play, he drastically slowed down his production of new works, since he could live off the royalties from older works instead.’

‘We may not have realized it at the time, but in the period from late 2001-January 19, 2009, [the US] was a dictatorship.’

Mussolini would have approved.

At present, the sighted are legally enjoined from working as professional masseurs.

Sensible WSJ article by Lawence Lessig on how the law hasn’t caught up with technology when it comes to copyright.

A list of profs as long as your arm comes out against Sir Cliff’s pension boondoggle.

Hilarious. And so true.

Statistical evidence that lawyers don't communicate in English.

Reminds me why I love Osaka.

UK laws online for free access and use.