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, 21 January 2015

Slings and roundabouts: DISH TV's advert skipping is OK in the USA

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Variety reports that  U.S. District Judge Dolly M. Gee’s has ruled that DISH Network’s offering of features that automatically skip ads a...
Tuesday, 20 January 2015

HOT NEWS: Amsterdam Court of Appeal gives Tom Kabinet three days to shut down

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Here's some fresh news from  Míchel Olmedo Cuevas , who has been following this development closely: Earlier today, the Amsterdam Cour...
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Use it or Lose it: this year's CIPIL conference

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The ideal Cambridge weekend ...? Organised by 1709 Blog friend  Prof Lionel Bently ,   " Intellectual Property: Use it or Lose it...

OSA and Article 102 TFEU: a way of attacking excessive collecting society fees?

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Fellow 1709er Eleonora is far too modest to mention it, but she has just had a Current Intelligence note published online in the Oxford Un...
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Monday, 19 January 2015

Adventures in Personal Copying (Part 1)

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Yin Harn Lee Did you think that adoption by the UK of an  exception  for  private copying  personal copies for private use  [ here ]  ...
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The Spanish hunt for websites providing hyperlinks

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From our friend and Entresijos y Tesituras blogger Irene Palomino ( @IriniPalomino ) comes the following guest post on the current situatio...
Saturday, 17 January 2015

The CopyKat - please take notice!

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Torrentfreak has released details from a report from the Motion Picture Association Of America which says that the US movie industry is u...
Thursday, 15 January 2015

Ryanair scrapes home in database dust-up

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Case C‑30/14 ,  Ryanair Ltd v PR Aviation BV  is a real quickie.  The request for a preliminary ruling from the Court of Justice of the Euro...
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