Thursday, 20 December 2012

Real Decreto 1657/2012: a collector's piece for Spanish copyright enthusiasts

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From the 1709 Blog's helpful Spanish friend Fidel Porcuna, a Senior Associate in Bird & Bird's Madrid office, comes this update ...

Modernising copyright in the UK - a modern, robust and flexible framework?

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It's the year end and so the 1709 bloggers seems destined to be flooded by new proposals and debate about copyright reform. Following ...
Wednesday, 19 December 2012

More on copyright reform from the Commission

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Further to its proposal for copyright reform earlier this month, the European Commission yesterday issued a press release giving a little ...
Tuesday, 18 December 2012

FOCAL, UK copyright reform and the public sector: a rsponse

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A correspondent who wishes to preserve anonymity but who supports the Libraries and Archives Copyright Alliance ( LACA ) has taken issue wit...
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Cable targets IP crime and education for 2013

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Dr Vince Cable , the UK's Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, has said that he will   launch a specific IP Crime u...
Monday, 17 December 2012

Broadcast retransmission to remain unregulated in Canada

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Last week the Canadian Supreme Court ruled in Cogeco Cable Inc, et al v. Bell Media Inc et al that Canada's broadcast regulator does no...
Saturday, 15 December 2012

FOCAL re-warns archive owners on the dangers of giving ministers exceptional powers

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FOCAL is the UK based trade association for audio-visual libraries with members from around the globe which, amongst other activities, fa...
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Friday, 14 December 2012

Calling all romantic copyright experts ...

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Rhoda Baxter -- better known in intellectual property circles as the author of Patently in Love -- has written for some assistance from t...