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.

Wednesday, 6 July 2011

SGAE investigated over "misappropriation of funds"

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Spanish collecting society SGAE has featured in this weblog a couple of times. The Court of Justice ruling in Case C‑467/08 , Padawan SL v ...
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Tuesday, 5 July 2011

Blindsided!
Will U.S. Supreme Court Patent Ruling on Willful Blindness Determine Standard for Red-Flag Knowledge Under DMCA?

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The 1709 Blog has previously reported on developments in the ongoing Viacom v. YouTube litigation in the United States, in which members o...
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Monday, 4 July 2011

Hot of the press: today's public consultation on copyright in Ireland

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David Brophy (Partner, FRKelly, Dublin) has just stepped out of this morning's Public Consultation Meeting which was held in Trinity C...
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Georgian Authors' Society opts to monitor unauthorised sales

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Always a useful source of news from Eastern Europe, the Petosevic newsletter reports ("Georgian Authors Society to Monitor Audio-Video ...
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Thursday, 30 June 2011

Google settlements as a genre: an holistic approach and the hippo in the bath tub

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"Online Distribution of Copyright Works: Judge Chin Rejects Google Books Settlement" is the title of an article just published in ...
Wednesday, 29 June 2011

BT flood warning to High Court

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BT has warned the High Court that if an injunction to block access to the Newzbin2 website were to be granted, it would be the ‘thin edge of...
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Monday, 27 June 2011

Performers to get new instrument, but will it still be the same old tune?

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The definition of audiovisual performance will be interesting. Belarus tennis star Victoria Azarenka's televised grunts have been re...
Monday, 20 June 2011

Policy Forum: IPR in the age of the Internet

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Last Thursday, 16 June 2011, the Institute for European Studies organized a Policy Forum on “IPR in the Age of the Internet”.  Trisha Meyer ...
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