IP Shells

1. compfight.com allows you to search through Flickr for pictures with a CC licence.
2. The Scots call plaintiffs ‘Pursuers’ and defendants ‘Defenders’. Interim injunctions are ‘Interim indictments’ and Scottish decisions on passing off are more fun to read than their English counterparts. (Through IPKat)
3. “Long before DRM-cracking and Creative Commons, thinkers like Gutenberg, Kant and Locke started the freedom of information debate. A new site archives their really old ideas,” says Matt Ransford writing about a new website called ‘Primary Sources on Copyright (1450-1900)‘ which is ‘a digital archive of primary sources on copyright from the invention of the printing press (c. 1450) to the Berne Convention (1886) and beyond’.
4. “Israel has informed the US government that it won’t enforce Digital Rights Management (DRM), nor will she enforce Internet Service Providers (ISPs) to nanny content providers, to ensure that copyright material isn’t posted,” says Michael Factor.