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- User centred design and the rule of law - Richard Pope richardpope.org
- Using your powers across borders | Brodies LLP brodies.com
If you are living in England and Wales or, have significant interests there, it would be sensible to sign an English power of attorney as well as a Scottish one. This will make matters administratively a lot easier in the event the document is needed at some point in the future.
- "Security guards have no right to prevent street photography," says Home Office - British Journal of Photography bjp-online.com
More importantly, the guidelines say that "if an individual is in a public place photographing or filming a private building, security guards have no right to prevent the individual from taking photographs," and that "security guards cannot delete images or seize cameras, nor can they obstruct individuals from taking photographs."
- It Will Be Awesome if They Don't Screw it Up: 3D Printing... | Public Knowledge publicknowledge.org
This white paper, It Will Be Awesome if They Don’t Screw it Up: 3D Printing, Intellectual Property, and the Fight Over the Next Great Disruptive Technology, examines how intellectual property (IP) law impacts the rapidly maturing technology of 3D printing, and how incumbents who feel threatened by its growth might try to use IP law to stop it.
What should other artists do? Well, I'm not really bothered. The sad truth is that almost everything almost every artist tries to earn money will fail. This has nothing to do with the internet, of course. Consider the remarkable statement from Alanis Morissette's attorney at the Future of Music Conference: 97% of the artists signed to a major label before Napster earned $600 or less a year from it. And these were the lucky lotto winners, the tiny fraction of 1% who made it to a record deal. Almost every artist who sets out to earn a living from art won't get there (for me, it took 19 years before I could afford to quit my day job), whether or not they give away their work, sign to a label, or stick it through every letterbox in Zone 1.
- The new rules of viral marketing - Brand Republic News - Brand Republic brandrepublic.com
Marketers are responsible for any unsolicited marketing messages they send which do not comply with data protection rules. Guidance issued by the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) stresses that the customer who passes a friend's details to the advertiser must confirm that they obtained the friend's consent. Marketers should check the friend is not already on a marketing suppression list and should tell customers that they will tell the friend how their contact details were obtained. If the friend objects having received the message, the marketer must rapidly suppress his contact details.
- Disability Rights Advocates Case: NFB v. Target dralegal.org
Summary of the Target class action and outcomes.
Interesting. Hadn't considered the possible legal implications of 'send to a friend' before.
Neither intranets nor extranets are offered to the general public and if software is a product then it's not a service – so you might think they're all irrelevant to the DDA. Not so.
- Public bodies face disability law change | The Register theregister.co.uk
The new Disability Equality Duty (DED) places a legal obligation on public bodies to consider the needs of the disabled when planning services.
- Vancouver Law Librarian Blog: Top 10 Uses for RSS in Law Firms vancouverlawlib.blogspot.com