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.

Friday, 16 March 2012

Five stripes and you're nicked: copyright and Dutch police cars

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A distinguished member of the intellctual property community has contacted this weblog with a question relating to Dutch copyright law. She ...
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Thursday, 15 March 2012

ISPs' six strikes enforcement plan in force next July

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Six strikes and you're out ... always disappointing  As our readers may remember, in summer last year some major US ISPs ( AT&T...

Hotels are public; dentist waiting rooms are not.

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Today, the ECJ (I am too old to call it the CJEU) handed down its decisions in two copyright cases.   In the first, Public Performance (Irel...
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Harmonisation by stealth: conversation or soliloquy?

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Harmonisation by stealth: "I never saw it coming ..." From Dr Smita Kheria (Lecturer in Intellectual Property Law, University ...

Code Wars reviewed

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Code Wars: 10 years of P2P Software Litigation , by Rebecca Giblin, is reviewed here for the 12709 Blog by  Stavroula Karapapa , Lecturer in...

News from the digital sphere

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There are now a plethora of online services offering legal ways to listen to music, but I was interested to see the announcement that new mu...
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Wednesday, 14 March 2012

Database Copyright in France

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As database copyright seems to be in the air, I thought I'd take this opportunity to briefly summarize French law on the issue. The oper...

May rubber stamps student's extradition

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Richard O’Dwyer, the British student facing extradition to the US to face criminal charges for copyright infringement over his ‘TVShack’ op...
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