Intellectual property laws have alsways been designed to encourage and reward innovation and invention. When the laws are too strong they become barriers to entry to markets. This is where we are today! The most immediate challenge is to #saveourinternet
A giant juke box
This (European) Commission and Parliament must be the worst ever. Previous Parliaments have stopped ACTA & TTIP, previous Commissions have sanctioned Microsoft and Intel but it seems that this regime is going to commit two huge mistakes in regulating the
More on the Copyright Directive
I need to thank the Register for publishing this article, “Looming EU copyright rules – tackling Google news article scraping, installing upload filters – under fire from all sides“. It’s written from their seemingly normal editorial line of, how shall
Reinforcing Monopoly
Hereby are two stories about how software acts as a barrier to entry to a market and reinforces the monopoly power of its provider. The first is shown by the fact that industrial content are getting cold feet over the
Creativity and Culture
I popped into the Policy Seminar on Energy and Culture, hoping to ask why the front bench had without mandate had supported the EU’s Copyright Directive and seemed to equate the interests of creators with those of the industry. The
A failure to serve fans
The European Parliament sent the Copyright Directive to the trialogue process, where the views of the commission, the council and the parliament are negotiated; the final words agreed by the parliament are basically the words lobbied for by the large
Europe’s winding road to Copyright Reform
This one of my recovered Storifies originally published in 2015. Over the last six months things have been moving on Copyright Reform in the European Union. On the 19th February, the new Copyright Directive’s rapporteur, the now sole Pirate Party