Tag Archives: Copyright

Orphan works EC report

A conservative estimate of the number of orphan books as a percentage of in-copyright books across Europe puts the number at 3 million orphan books (13 % of the total number of in copyright books). The older the books the higher the percentage of orphan works. When handling requests for using older film material, film […]

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Media law in April

Blogpost: BCA Drop Case Against Simon Singh Jack of Kent   And his libel fight is over: 50,000 signatures, 3 party pledges, 268 MPs backing EDM – www.libelreform.org   Does the Tories’ iPhone App violate the Data Protection Act? Call a friend   UK: Legal experts fear new case of ‘libel tourism’ European Journalism Centre […]

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Creative Commons, copyright & IP in April

Copyright Criminals documentary: sampling & IP law A documentary titled Copyright Criminals, which examines the messy three-way collision between digital technology, musical collage, and intellectual property law used 400 brief but unlicensed clips. ‘… one of those slapped with a suit was George Clinton—for sampling one of his own records. True story. “Yeah, I got […]

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Digital Economy Bill and Digital Britain in March

Digital economy bill likely to be pushed through before electionGuardian 05.03.2010 Copyright is not the only thing that matters online, says Bill ThompsonBBC 02.03.2010 Music Week: Clause 17 voted down in LordsThe industry is celebrating that non P2P infringers are being dealt with in the Digital Economy Bill, after the House of Lords voted through […]

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October #2

CopyrightRemix culture: “On the Legal Consequences of Sauces: Should [..]Recipes Be Per Se Copyrightable?” SSRN Google Book SettlementGoogle co-founder Sergey Brin on book settlement NY Times JournalismWikileaks devising a platform for anonymously leaking material to news outlets, others. ComputerWorld Media LawSuper Injunctions: the Trafigura storyLibel law: Simon Singh wins leave to appeal in BCA libel […]

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September #3

CopyrightBook sharing site Scribd rejects claims of copyright infringement Guardian Creative CommonsCC publishes study on interpreting “non-commercial” under CCBY & CC0 Creative Commons Digital BritainAttitudes to supporting non-BBC regional news from the licence fee. Preliminary findings. DCMS study. FacebookHow exactly is Facebook making money? GuardianHow Facebook tried to put a shine on $9.5m privacy suit […]

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July #4

Free Malcolm Gladwell eviscerates Chris Anderson’s Free. Saving you time as well as money bit.ly   OFCOM Consultation to reform the rules around commercial radio & local content tr.im Consultation on liberalising the rules concerning ownership of local media tr.im   Newsgator, Google and RSS Newsgator: option of paid-for ad-free desktop readers. Synch via Google. […]

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July #1

  France, copyright and internet access Hadopi 2 Passes French Senate twurl.nl    Information design “Building Better White Papers” bit.ly  DFID policy document, summaries, video, links to ways of being active. Offers users a choice of levels of engagement with policy from one location.   Internet Radio Pandora: ‘The royalty crisis is over!’ Tim Westergen on […]

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Links to 13th June

    The week in links Education resources, open access, copyright, bad research and lobbying, life without newspapers- insight from the1940s, Twitter hype vs the numbers, browser innovation, Digital Britain, life without broadband, French anti-filesharing law overturne The week in links Education resources, open access, copyright, bad research and lobbying, life without newspapers- insight from […]

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Links to 4th June

Democracy, EU EU elections: how to vote? What do the parties stand for?  A tool which helps you decide from Unlock Democracy  www.votematch.co.uk Open Rights Group survey: Do your MEP candidates care about digital rights? www.openrightsgroup.org Open Rights Group: MEP survey results and contact info euelection.openrightsgroup.org Democracy, UK UK Hansard survey: how do you use the net […]

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