Brisbane law lecturer Peter Black links to an amazing amount of material in Blawg Review #85 relating to the media, the internet, IP and law and other fascinating themes.

Lest the current debate on copyright law become too academic, Peter has linked to a podcast of an interview of Paul Harpur.

Paul is a solicitor and PhD candidate at QUT Law School who lost
vision in both eyes as a young boy. In this interview, he discusses
some of the difficulties he has in obtaining access to copyright
material for his research and work activities, and proposes a potential
solution in the form of a national electronic database of books for use
by people with a print disability.

But there’s much more in Blawg Review #85: take a look and you’re sure to find something new.

According to the CSIRO Judge Davis of the District Court of the United States East District of Texas has given summary judgement in favour of CSIRO, reaffirming the validity of CSIRO’s patent of the core technology which enables high speed wireless networks using the 802.11 a and g standards and supporting CSIRO’s claims
that Buffalo Technology had infringed its patent.

CSIRO is also defending its patent in declaratory judgment actions brought by
Intel, Dell, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard and Netgear in the Northern
District of California over the same patent which covers more than hundreds of
millions of units sold to date and a rapidly expanding market.

The Age