I’m sitting right now at UC Berkeley – Tekes Innovation in Services Conference. Live blogging to commence. First keynote: David Teece Great firms both understand future and invest on it Top talents does not need traditional organizational structure “Professional services” are a good place to look model for new organization “Literati” – people who live [...]

Kari Uoti keeps the bad record of Finnish court system in his crosshair: Ihmisoikeustuomioistuin antaa huomenna tuomion yhteensä yhdeksässä jutussa, joista neljä siis koskee Suomea. Suhdeluku on ällistyttävä. Kaikista 46 jäsenvaltiosta niiden satoine miljoonine ihmisineen, Suomi on jälleen lyömässä uuden ennätyksen. Muille 45 sopijavaltiolle tuomitaan huomenna viisi juttua, Suomelle neljä. Näistä muille tulevista viidestä jutusta [...]

Some very good news relating to IPRED2 (via Deeplinks): We’re pleased to note that today, the UK government came out in agreement with our sentiments, and supported our amendments to limit IPRED2′s reach, more precisely define “commercial scale” and “intentional infringement”, as well as remove rightsholders’ ability to take part in investigations of their own [...]

Ugnh. I don’t especially like lectures, which start at 8. Anyway luckily this time the audience was well awaken and there was some good discussion, which always helps the lecturer. Today’s slides: USA EU and Finland I also tried for the first time to use WebEx yesterday to give (yet another) lecture for SoberIT’s Ictec-course. [...]

I’ll be lecturing at Joensuu University for the next 3 days. Here are the slides for the first 4 hours: Introduction Copyright – basics More stuff later. The program for the next Finnish government is out. It’s OK, Finland will be preparing its own version of Gowers’ review (why, one might ask) and copyright issues [...]