Lex Ferenda
Lex Ferenda is published by Daithà Mac Sithigh, a graduate student at the School of Law, Trinity College Dublin (in Ireland). She works as a research assistant, lectures part-time in media law, and teaches seminars in human rights, constitutional and administrative law. This blog charts DaithÒs progress through research and teaching, as well as other things that her eye.
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IWF: Wind Of Change?
Over the weekend, this very interesting story about Wikipedia and the Internet Watch Foundation (IWF) in the UK developed. I’m still always surprised when things that I have been talking and thinking about for years leap from something that gets chatted about at techie law conferences to...
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The Blogging Year That Was
I took a look at the most popular posts on this blog in 2008, though my data is a bit of a mess as there are various stages where the stats system failed entirely, including for the entire (and merry, as I got hired then!) month of May. Another trend is the increase in [...]I took a look at the...
Review squared
I suppose it’s (barely) acceptable to kickstart the blogging year with a selection of reviews of the year, or those related to this blog’s topics…for reviews of the year more generally, the Guardian has published a review of reviews of the year on its newsblog. Indeed, the...
Friendface
As a fan of Graham Linehan’s The IT Crowd (showing in the UK on Channel 4 and available elsewhere), I do watch it with half an eye to spotting useful representations or parodies of Internet phenomena. The ‘You Wouldn’t Steal’ insert (watch it here, and compare with the...
Privacy By Design
Here are the other, more scattered privacy stories as promised: The Information and Privacy Commissioner in the Canadian province of Ontario, Ann Cavoukian, is organising the ‘Privacy By Design Challenge‘, a workshop and presentations on how technology can be used, and in particular...
A taxing case on data protection and journalism
I’ve been preparing a roundup of some recent privacy stories, with a vague connection. However the most recent story deserves its own post, so the others wait until tomorrow. The European Court of Justice adds some detail to the body of EU caselaw on the Data Protection Directive, and...
If I Could Sue
Since moving to a shiny new job at ICANN, Kieren McCarthy has been a relatively infrequent blogger on his own site (being insanely busy on his various other blogs, like this), but he pops back up with a great post on the dispute over Coldplay’s Viva La Vida, which has been widely reported. ...
Rain on your wedding day
Two interesting developments related to parody/satire and the law have caught my attention of late. Warning: long post ahead (I’ve been writing this one paragraph at a time for a while). The first comes from the murky waters of English defamation law, though it ends with a victory for the...
Map
In a prominent place in my office, you will find this bundle of geekish joy. The source is xkcd and many other posters are available.In a prominent place in my office, you will find this bundle of geekish joy. The source is xkcd and many other posters are available.
Christmas comes early
For followers of media law, that is. The European Court of Human Rights gave its decision in another political advertising case today, TV Vest AS & Rogaland Pensjonistparti v Norway. Having already dealt with one situation earlier in the decade (VGT v Switzerland, 2001), finding that a Swiss...