The 1709 Blog

In 1709 (or was it 1710?) the Statute of Anne created the first purpose-built copyright law. This blog, founded just 300 short and unextended years later, is dedicated to all things copyright, warts and all.

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Thursday, 19 May 2016

The CopyKat

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Pirate Party MEP Julia Reda has got herself into a bit of a pickle after a tweet on World Intellectual Property Day saying that she was “t...

Wednesday, 25 November 2015

Cox on the back foot in claim by BMG

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A District Court in America has made a potentially devastating ruling for Internet service Providers and possible online platforms, ruling...

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Monday, 23 February 2015

The CopyKat - trolling tonight

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Freeplay, the US-based library music company, which has been providing music for bedroom filmmakers for their YouTube videos, has filed li...

Friday, 13 June 2014

The CopyKat - Friday's furballs of fun

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The Australian internet service provider iiNET, which has long resisted federal efforts to mandate copyright protection schemes, and which ...

Friday, 23 May 2014

The CopyKat - global copytreats - with a distinct lack of divine inspiration

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A German court has ruled that an American psychologist — and not Jesus Christ — is the author of a book that she said Christ dictated to ...

Thursday, 6 March 2014

The CopyKat - snappers paradise: skating clear of Getty's images, it's in Degeneres we trust!

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In Taiwan , the Dutch television production company Endemol has lost a lawsuit against the the producers of a Taiwan game show called ...

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