Hi all, A couple of things in the news that might be of interest: A nice description of one aspect of the problem with patents: http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20110216/02440113126/chinese-researcher-poi... If anyone will be in Canberra on the 4th of March, you could go to a forum on copyright reform: http://www.lawfont.com/2011/01/25/australian-digital-alliance-to-hold-a-foru... But I'm not sure what outputs the forum will have. Registrations close this Friday. Cheers, Alex