Computer Conferences; Bluish Peter Badges

Computers & police describe – telephone telephone for papers

The VIth World Computer Law Conference is taking identify at the University of Edinburgh betwixt 4-8 September 2006.

Contributions are sought inward all legal aspects of the data society, merely papers on IP aspects are especially welcome.

If you lot desire to direct maintain purpose though, you’d amend teach your skate on – abstracts of no to a greater extent than than 600 words are due inward THIS FRIDAY (31 March).

Full details, including where to submit your papers, are available here.


Peter Panned

The BBC is attempting to scrap the sale of Blue Peter badges on eBay. The badges, featuring the Blue Peter ship’s logo, are given to children who contribute to the Blue Peter boob tube programme in addition to enable them to gain gratis access to all sorts of dainty touristy places. Blue Peter editor Richard Mason said:

"We know how hard children move to earn a badge, in addition to nosotros are doing our best to ensure that this long-standing Blue Peter establishment is non undermined."

can’t quite move out what the BBC’s objection is here. From Mason’s comments, it looks similar he’s afraid of the diminution inward the exclusivity of the badge, in addition to thence is mounting around form of quasi-dilution argument. If the badges are fakes thence he tin sympathise the BBC’s position. More hard issues arise if the badges inward query are genuine Blue Peter badges. reckons that at that spot would survive no exhaustion of rights defense forcefulness hither because the badges direct maintain been given away, rather than lay on the marketplace orbit inward the EEA, merely it seems pretty petroleum if recipients can’t dispose of something that they direct maintain been given.