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.

Thursday, 15 December 2016

The Competence of the European Union in Copyright Lawmaking

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The title of this posting was also the title of a seminar organised by the Institute of Advanced Legal Studies , University of Lond...

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US music industry asks Trump for a fair deal (but less fair use!)

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Nineteen US music industry organisations have come together deliver an open letter to President-elect Donald Trump (pictured left), pointi...

Tuesday, 13 December 2016

Academic publishing houses lose appeal against Delhi University & photocopy shop

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We are reposting this excellent article by Prashant Reddy (details at the end of the post) first published on the IPKat Academic publis...

Saturday, 10 December 2016

The CEIPI Publishes An Opinion on the EU Commission’s Copyright Reform Proposal

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The Center for International Intellectual Property Studies (CEIPI) which is part of my alma mater, the University of Strasbourg, publis...

Friday, 9 December 2016

CJEU GS Media decision finds its first application in Germany

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GS Media finds its first application in Germany A few weeks ago on The IPKat I reported that a Swedish court has been likely the fi...

Tuesday, 6 December 2016

Wild Boys Sometimes Lose It: Duran Duran fail to reclaim their US copyright

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This post is by David Brophy writing on the IPKat A few weeks after his eighteenth birthday, Duran Duran co-founder Nick Rhodes signed a...

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