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, 30 August 2010

Big sums at stake in Serbia

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On 27 July 2010, the Belgrade Commercial Court issued a first instance decision in which it ordered the public broadcaster Radio Television ...
Sunday, 29 August 2010

US record labels say that copyright law "isn't working"

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Speaking at the Technology Policy Institute's Aspen Forum, The President of the Recording Industry Association of America, Cary Sherman,...
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Thursday, 26 August 2010

Too many California girls?

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A few weeks ago, this blog reported here about the efforts of Performing Rights Organizations (PROs) to collect royalties from commercial u...
Monday, 23 August 2010

Database rights: a reader asks

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A reader has posed the following question, to see what the readers of this blog might think: "Company A purchases the majority share of...
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Friday, 20 August 2010

German industrial expansion: blame it on copyright?

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"The Real Reason for Germany's Industrial Expansion?" by Frank Thadeusz, published on Spiegel Online here , has already been t...
Thursday, 19 August 2010

Are pop videos overrated?

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Last week Mr Justice Floyd allowed an appeal from a decision of the Copyright Tribunal over the royalty TV channels should pay for broadcas...
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The record labels vs the broadcasters - what’s phones got 2 do with it?

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Here's a novel way to resolve a dispute between two parties. Ask the government to put an obligation on a third party to cure all your i...
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Tuesday, 17 August 2010

Another ECJ reference on monitoring and SABAM

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This blog has already reported here on the ECJ reference in the case of SABAM v Tiscali. To that case has now been added another reference ...
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