• Aviva Directory, 12 Important U.S. Laws Every Blogger Needs to Know

    For US bloggers in particular, blogging has become a veritable land mine of potential legal issues, and the situation isn’t helped by the fact that the law in this area is constantly in flux.

  • Groklaw, A Groucho Marx Imitation in SCO v. IBM & SCO’s Memo in Support of Objections to Order on Spoliation

    Some more filings in SCO v. IBM including one that has to be our winner for best Marx Brothers imitation. And as you know, there is heavy competition for that crown. But I do think we have the victorious entry. It’s SCO who is requesting more time to respond to an IBM filing, to which IBM has agreed, and SCO phrases its stipulated request like this:

    The parties, through their counsel of record, hereby stipulate and jointly move the Court for an Order enlarging the deadline for SCO to file its sur-surreply to IBM’s Sur-Reply Memorandum in Further Opposition to SCO’s Objections to the Magistrate Judge’s Order on IBM’s Motion to Confine and SCO’s Motion to Amend its December 2005 Submission, on or before May 11, 2007.

  • Creative Commons’s blog, Creative Commons for Newspapers, Scientists, Film students and Wikipedia SEOers(!?)

    Four articles turned up yesterday all advocating use of different Creative Commons licenses in different contexts, nicely demonstrating the not-really-niche-anymore scope covered by Creative Commons.