Mark Twain once said that “facts are stubborn things, but statistics are pliable.” Now, many believe that the London School of Economics applied their statistics a tad too flexibly this…
Month: October 2013
Free software and comparative evaluation in the Italian Public Administration
The re-posting of this analysis is part of a cross-posting collaboration with MediaLaws: Law and Policy of the Media in a Comparative Perspective. The age-old question on the use of…
Announcing the Winners of Canada's 2013 IP Writing Challenge
IP Osgoode and the Intellectual Property Institute of Canada (IPIC) are thrilled to announce the winner of the fifth annual edition of Canada’s IP Writing Challenge: (more…)
Plain Packaging for Tobacco Products in the EU Up in Smoke?
Where there’s smoke, there’s fire… or at least a heated debate. On October 8th, 2013, the European Parliament voted on the proposed revisions to the Tobacco Products Directive (TPD). One…
Shiver Me Timbers! US Court Declines to Exert Jurisdiction Over Pirate Joe's
In the past, Canada has been labeled as a pirate haven, but this is now literally true for Trader Joe’s lovers in Vancouver. (more…)
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The Incredible, Vanishing Internet (and the DMCA)
In the time that it takes you to read this paragraph Google will have removed eight sites from its search engine indexes. Sorry, make that forty. (more…)