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What a rich resource for law students. Indeed, for anyone interested in the law and history of England:
The long arm of the law now stretches across time: from tomorrow [April 28], the transcripts of every trial heard at the Old Bailey from 1674 to 1913 can be read online, free of charge. The records of [...]

You’d have had to be off planet not to have heard about this political disaster that blew up yesterday which led to Chancellor of the Exchequer Alistair Darling apologizing in the House of Commons.
I watched the whole thing live on BBC Parliament TV on my PC, from which the above screenshot comes. And I [...]

In 2005, the European Union published a Directive on Unfair Commercial Practices that, among other things, outlines “sharp practices” which will be prohibited throughout the EU, such as pressure selling, misleading marketing and unfair advertising.
The Directive is due to become part of EU members’ national laws in early 2008. Social media channels such as blogs [...]

Creative Commons, the non-profit organization devoted to expanding the range of creative work available for others legally to build upon and share, has launched version 3.0 of their copyright licenses.
This updated version introduces a number of changes including spinning off the ‘generic’ license to be the US license and creating a new generic license, [...]

All British travellers who have visited the United States over the past four years have been given a terrorist rating, according to a Daily Telegraph report.
This is one of the outcomes of the implementation of the Automated Targeting System (ATS), which the US government uses as part of its ‘war on terror‘:
[...] Personally [...]

Do you Google? Everyone does, but Google would prefer that you didn’t use their trademarked name as a verb:
Search engine giant Google, known for its mantra “don’t be evil”, has fired off a series of legal letters to media organisations, warning them against using its name as a verb.
Of course they have to protect [...]

A positive conclusion re my ‘cease and desist’ post yesterday.
WSUN Technologies responded immediately to my request to stop using my content on their blog without permission:
[...] WSUN Technologies does not tolerate copyright infringement of any kind. The violating user has been banned and their rss.xml has been deleted from our list of feeds [...]

I’ve just sent my first formal ‘cease and desist’ request to a company that appears to be ripping off my content and publishing it as if it were their own.
Maybe ‘cease and desist’ isn’t the right phrase (I’m not a lawyer) but the polite email I’ve sent (full text below) is designed to achieve [...]

Nothing is sacred on the internet, not the words you write and publish in your blog nor the pictures you take and upload to Flickr.

I’m talking about plagiarism:

Plagiarism is the passing off of another person’s work as one’s own, whether deliberate or accidental. Accidental plagiarism is usually the result of poor citation or referencing or [...]

If you want to learn what you can do to protect your rights to the original content you post on your blog, Lorelle VanFossen has written an excellent guide on What Do You Do When Someone Steals Your Content:

Just because information is on the Internet does not mean it’s “free” to take and steal. Information, [...]