I have been thinking more about the limits about what is appropriate referencing of the stuff of others on a blog like this. Well, looking at the Canadian Copyright Act helps.  •  “29. Fair dealing for the purpose of research or private study does not infringe copyright.  •  29.1 Fair dealing for …

Here's a good example of what I have been saying. It appears Jevon has had a spot of bother with the name of one of his widgetty websites, blogtrack, which has existed since December 2001* according to the Way Back Machine. Another site uses the word to describe their widget which does much the …

A few New Yorkers ago there was a very good article on patent creeping in the US which describes the apparent desire of the US court to declare everything existing and being done in the universe as patentable. An interesting thread on MetaFilter was spawned.  •  As noted at the time in a …

A few weeks ago, when I was back in PEI, Steve Garrity asked me to rethink my post on Dave Weinberger's column in the June edition of Wired in which I wrote:  •  “In another article called "Copy Protection is a Crime", David Weinberger makes possibly the most naive stand on any legal issue I have …

Canada is like a different country according to the Washington Post. Go figure. When I was a kid and Trudeau was Prime Minister, we knew we were not the States and that we did things differently, and not just with the beer or saying "eh" from time to time. Along came Mulroney in the 1980's and …

While I do not now go to Court, I have been known to see a rounder off to jail, joined a judge in a chambers chat, plea bargained. But don't know if I could do it all with a straight face before a very serious man in a very silly hat.  •  Not quite as funny are the ideas that go on beneath the …

A czar? An ombud? Is he an imperial dictator stumbling in a democractic technological world or a new nordic-style Enemy of the People raging at a storm? George Radwanski, Canada's Federal Privacy Commissioner, speaks of scary things. He has also ticked off parliamentarians over his travel …

A few blog authors I am associated  - code named WARTAPEI - with have loosely begun to share some of what they have learned in small start-up business, and in web software development. If you have any questions about my part in the hand up project, the work in progress Contracting and IT, post here.

I heard this sort of argument often in private practice, in management magazines aimed at the legal profession, at conferences. Isn't the idea in any field the you do something useful and you won't have to convince anyone?