Simon Willison’s Weblog

Principles and Legality. Eric Meyer notes that language about legality in Microsoft’s recent IE announcement suggests that Opera’s much criticised EU threat may have helped positively influence the result.

# 4th March 2008, 7:45 pm / eric-meyer, ie8, law, microsoft, opera, standards

Legal advice for businesses that are scared of open source (via) Useful for pointing people to.

# 31st July 2007, 9:59 pm / law, open-source

The logo is still evolving, say designers. The Olympics logo is designed to be “hackable”—which is actually a great idea, but lawyers advised against unveiling that concept at the same time as the abstract shapes.

# 11th June 2007, 10:22 am / design, law, olympicslogo

New Dutch accessibility law. Sounds extremely forward thinking, designed by people who really understand the field. Just one problem: the guidelines are only available in Dutch!

# 16th January 2007, 12:59 pm / accessibility, dutch, guidelines, law, ppk

’National interest’ halts arms corruption inquiry. “It has been necessary to balance the need to maintain the rule of law against the wider public interest.”

# 15th December 2006, 2:09 pm / law, politics, scandal, uk

UK copyright law petition. New official petition system from MySociety.

# 14th November 2006, 11:38 am / law

Naked Law (via) A blog about technology law, written by actual lawyers.

# 5th July 2005, 3:33 pm / law

FOXSports.com’s ludicrous link policy. In brief: send our legal department a letter first.

# 17th August 2004, 5:44 pm / law