• Copyrighting Religion
  Pakistan court quotes American trademark law in deciding to
  forbid a religious group from using Islamic epithets and
  practices: "The principles involved are: do not deceive and
  do not violate the property rights of others."
  
• IP Over-Enforcement Could Stifle Growth
  Canada's Law Times ponders the dangers of maximalist IP
  policies as demonstrated down south.
  
• Gaming the System
  The National Review looks into government censorship in the
  video game industry.
  
• Who Killed Cryptome?
  Wired's Ryan Singel documents the shutting down of one of
  the Net's most fearless document archives.
  
• Politicians Like Blogger Codes of Conduct
  Unsurprisingly, a UK minister would prefer a quieter Net
  too.
  
• The 301 Report: US Still Unhappy with Neighbors
  China, Thailand, Russia top culprits in not obeying
  America's IP law; Canada, Brazil and Poland looking very
  suspicious.
  
• FLOSSworld International Workshop
  Open source adoption across the world: a conference from
  May 11-12 in Brussels.
  
• America's War on Tourists
  The unintended consequences of security theater.
  
• Criminalizing the Consumer
  The Economist summarizes the move away from DRM in content
  industry and asks the obvious question: "Why couldn't
  [they] have thought of that in the beginning?"
  
• Cell Phones in Africa: Tracking and Computing
  Promise and threats of cell phone technology that could
  bring general-purpose computers and/or mass surveillance,
  as seen by MIT Media Lab's Nathan Eagle.