Last week I was in Richmond to participate in a focus group to help the Virginia courts system run better through IT (it's good to see governments using information technology to help citizens--I'm for limited government, not Luddite government). Virginia recently created a commission to look 10-15 years into the [...]

The French "iPod law" went into effect yesterday--still with plenty of teeth despite certain sections having been declared unconstitutional and struck down by the French Constitutional Council. Officially referred to as the DADVSI, the law is France's implementation of a 2001 EU Directive to harmonize copyright law by implementing rules [...]