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, 15 October 2014

Arnold J calls for a holistic review of copyright

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On a very damp Monday night, the great and good of the London copyright scene, from the Bench to the IPO and from the Bar to University Ch...
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IP Enforcement - late news from Vietnam

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Three weeks' late as it happens, but better late than never. Way back on 24 September, City of London Police Commander, Steve Hea...
Monday, 13 October 2014

A Tidy trawl!

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On 29 September, in "Trawl for Tidy Transcript", the 1709 Blog posted a call for help from fellow 1709-er Mira T. Sundara Rajan,...
Friday, 10 October 2014

Weatherley promotes copyright awareness

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Mike Weatherley MP, the UK Prime MInister's Intellectual Property Advisor, has published the third of his copyright reports t, this on...

Friday's CopyKat is a snappy Katty

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We have recently posted a couple of blogs looking at the position of hardworking professional photographers who feel somewhat let down b...
Sunday, 5 October 2014

Patrons, curators, inventors and thieves

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Patrons, curators, inventors and thieves is the title of a   book   which has just been published by Palgrave Macmillan and carries the...
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Friday, 3 October 2014

The CopyKat - keeping the word

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In the 1980s, when Brian Sheppard created his Maven computer program that played Scrabble, he typed in a lot of words - more than 100,000 ...
Wednesday, 1 October 2014

Google respond to NewsCorp

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In our last CopyKat we noted that NewsCorp's CEO Robert Thomson had written to the European Union Competition Commissioner JoaquĆ­n Almun...
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