Tuesday, 5 May 2009

Same old Directive, new number

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Do you remember Council Directive 91/250/EEC of 14 May 1991 on the legal protection of computer programs? The Directive which requires EU m...
Monday, 4 May 2009

Affordable Legal Route for Victims of Infringement?

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This is more of a question than a statement: but, in advising predominantly creators, many at the early stages of their career, I often find...
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Sunday, 3 May 2009

A crime to buy pirate DVDs -- does Maharashtra have the power?

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In a post on the excellent Spicy IP weblog, Prashant Reddy ("Beware Mumbaikars: The Slumlord's Act could detain you for a year for...
Friday, 1 May 2009

301 Watch List on both sides of the fence

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Yesterday (April 30th) the US Trade Representative (USTR) released its 2009 Special 301 Report , the annual survey of the “adequacy and effe...

Santangelo case finally comes to a close

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One of the longest-running and highest profile fileswapping lawsuits pursued by the Recording Industry Association of America ( RIAA ) has ...
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Thursday, 30 April 2009

OurStage or Outrage? The case of copyright and community values

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I've just been reading the Community Values page on music discovery site OurStage.com (see Wikipedia entry here ) and I'm trying to...
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Faustian Fudge

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Legislators around the world now shaping the new laws concerning digital copyright infringment are considering not only how to catch infring...
Wednesday, 29 April 2009

“I tawt I taw a puddy tat!”

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Lawrence Lessig twitters that Warner Music has issued a takedown notice for a presentation on YouTube, says techdirt . Can Tweety Pie’s fa...