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.

Monday, 23 November 2009

Digital Economy: if you hate the Bill, you'll love the petition

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The 1709 Blog learned from Glyn Wintle earlier today that over 9,000 people had signed the Number 10 petition against the Digital Economy Bi...

Here comes a pan-European copyright regime?

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Viviane Reding, accepting an award in Barcelona this morning, flagged her intention to try to extend Brussels' powers to legislate for c...

Does Infosoc directive shed light on fair compensation and the three-step test?

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On Friday in Stichting de Thuiskopie v Opus Supplies Deutschland GmbH the Dutch Supreme Court referred two questions to the Court of Justice...

Recent publications

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A refreshed, revitalised and abridged form of Ben Challis 's classic 2003 essay on music sampling, "The Song Remains The Same"...
Saturday, 21 November 2009

The curious case of the psychoacoustic Beatles' tracks

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At the start of the month the internet was alive with rumours and then reports that a US website had made the Beatles catalogue available o...
Thursday, 19 November 2009

Anti-suit injunction keeps copyright suit out of the US courts

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Skype Technologies SA v Joltid Ltd and others [2009] EWHC 2783 (Ch) was a Chancery Division decision of Mr Justice Lewison earlier this mo...
Monday, 16 November 2009

Recent publications

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* With a close-up portrait of an avatar occupying centre page, the cover of this month's Copyright World is simultaneously attractive ...
Friday, 13 November 2009

How Bow Wow Wow Row Now Concluded

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Several readers have drawn my attention to this feature in The Tripwire (why, I ask, are they reading this when there are so many earnest co...
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