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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Saturday, 15 October 2016

THE COPYKAT

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A Liverpool man has pleaded guilty to illegally distributing chart hits online, potentially costing the music industry millions of pounds ...

Tuesday, 14 July 2015

N-N-N-Nineteen and Sony spat

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Thanks to a public stand by artists such as Taylor Swift , and the UK campaigning organisation The Featured Artists Coalition...

Friday, 16 November 2012

Pandora opens up a box of fun

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Pandora, the American streaming music service, has issued legal proceedings in the USA on the basis that the rates currently being offered...

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Tuesday, 31 January 2012

IFPI welcomes Russian ruling on unlicensed streaming platform

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The IFPI has welcomed what it calls a “landmark ruling” by a Russian court that internet company vKontakte’s music service is liable for cop...

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Thursday, 30 September 2010

Internet rights, rates (and wrongs)

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I have always been suspicious that the only reason that songwriter and music publisher collection societies the Performing Right Society (PR...

Wednesday, 19 August 2009

Are Recording Artists Being Excluded from Spotify Income?

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Conflicting information flies about as to the price paid by 4 major record labels and label Merlin for shares in the streamed music service ...

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