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Tag: intellectual-property

  • Complete Zenith: A Review

    WARNING: Some minor spoilers in the images, but nothing to get too excited about. Zenith is a comic strip from “my era” of 2000ad. I first started getting 2000ad from Prog 497 (after already purchasing several Titan reprint albums) and Zenith himself arrived in Prog 520. In some ways it’s a surprise Zenith was a…

  • What’s left of what I believe

    The main reason I’ve allowed this blog to fall into misuse over the past couple of years is that I stopped writing about politics. While my original concept behind this blog was always to write in the intersection between politics and geekery, at some point – specifically in May 2010 – I decided I could…

  • Speech: Where we are and how we got here

    Note: I got into a bit of a state preparing for my speech at the Social Liberal Forum Conference on Saturday, staying up the previous night writing and angsting about it: for some reason I found the prospect of sharing a platform with Neal Lawson, Will Hutton and Simon Hughes (who ended up replaced by…

  • The Lib Dem campaign for internet freedom steps up a gear

    If you haven’t already joined the Lib Dems Save the Net Facebook campaign, I recommend you do so. Meanwhile, an emergency motion has been submitted to Spring conference. Bridget Fox has the details. I’ve submitted the following questions to the Federal Policy Committee for the morning of conference: 1. What role has the FPC played…

  • Paperchase and Copywrong

    A lot of my (mainly non-Twitter using) readers may be unaware of the controversy surrounding designer Hidden Eloise and greeting card giant Paperchase. In short, Hidden Eloise alleges that a design which Paperchase are using on a variety of products has lifted the central image of a girl from one of her own works He…