Jonathan Zuck (the president of Association for Competitive Technology, ACT) recently compared the discourse on draft version of GPL v.3 to the 15th century Europe. He argued that Richard Stallman is the same for open source movement as Girolamo Savonarola, a Dominican priest, is to Renaissance. Girolamo Savonarola is famous for his fight against vanity, [...]

Olli Pitkänen is right now defending his Ph.D “Legal Challanges to Future Information Businesses” here in T3. His has used scenarios to predict what kind of legal issues will be important in forthcoming “U-world”. The outcome is somewhat “D’oh” i.e. data protection, contract law and IPRs. Olli’s presentation: – In traditional contract law consent is [...]