Yay! IT law now has it’s own wiki, the appropriately named: The IT Law Wiki. Professor Michael D. Scott, of Southwestern Law School, and author of the Singularity blog, initiated the wiki. The wiki, less than a month old, already contains 591 entries, on subjects such as the CAN-SPAM Act, chronologies of events from the 1960’s onwards, and on open source and closed source.

Actually, the above examples show three things. One, many entries are as yet stubs and need expanding. Two, the wiki appears under-organized (as in, spontaneously organized), which should resolve over time and whereby the individual entries should also become more valuable. Three, the current bias of the wiki to U.S. law. This is not the fault of the U.S. authors, and in fact only something contributors from outside the United States can remedy. It’s also the users that can remedy the first and second points mentioned.

So please, go over to itlaw.wikia.com, look around, get a feel for the place, and see where you can give and take information.

‡‡ [This is a post from Technology Law Culture: http://tlc.oosterbaan.net/. Olivier Oosterbaan, IT and media lawyer in Rotterdam, the Netherlands, maintains this blog.]

(Picture: Screen grab from the IT Law Wiki.)