Saturday, 14 July 2012

How tech law principles are starting to mould copyright

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This has been a hectic couple of weeks for copyright.   Ten days ago the EU Court of Justice published the UsedSoft decision , which will ...
Friday, 6 July 2012

UsedSoft - not just about software?

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Tuesday's decision of the EU Court of Justice in UsedSoft has set the software industry aflutter by largely giving the green light to r...
Wednesday, 16 May 2012

Socks, shoes and feet – dissecting a copyright analogy

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Many, many people have tweeted this video snippet of Canadian Member of Parliament Dean del Mastro on the subject of format shifting.   Th...
Sunday, 13 May 2012

What the Defamation Act 2013 means for the internet

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[Note: This post has been updated following Royal Assent to the Defamation Bill on 25 April 2013.  The Bill is now the Defamation Act 2013...
Monday, 9 April 2012

Dire traits – a curious case of copyright extradition

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In an English copyright extradition case last year ( Sitek v Swidnica Circuit Court, Poland [2011] EWHC 1378 (Admin)), the court’s decisio...
Sunday, 8 April 2012

Council of Europe search and social media recommendations - political agendas dressed up as human rights

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When human rights become just another vehicle for channelling the political agendas of the hour, you suspect that something has gone wrong....
Sunday, 18 March 2012

See me, sue me?

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When the internet swam into our vision (in my case in 1993), one of the first questions was whether putting up online content that is legal...