Kevin Brennan MP, introduced a private member’s bill earlier this year to establish the right to ‘equitable’ remuneration for musicians and composers for use of their material on streaming platforms. It would seem that this is an attempt to implement a series of recommendations from the DCMS Select Committee. (I think the bill will fail…
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I want to read Citrine’s ABC of Chairmanship on my tablet; who owns the copyright and when does it expire?
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I am conducting a project about Monet’s Four Trees and came across a digital version of the painting at Wikipedia. What fascinated me is that they claim the digital image is public domain.
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This article constitutes my notes on Rufus Pollock’s Paper, “FOREVER MINUS A DAY? SOME THEORY AND EMPIRICS OF OPTIMAL COPYRIGHT”, August 7th, 2007.
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I have taken an interest in the BBC’s financial balance of trade on Intellectual Property. Their annual report can be found here … while the National Audit Office undertook a landscape review on their commercial services. The annual report is a typical haven’t we done well and getting the answers to the questions I am…
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I need to write a blog on the RIAA’s concept of the “Value Gap”. WTF? This is defined as the lost value to the author/publishers of music and other content. It’s proponents argue that copyright is meant to appropriate this value. Anyway, here are some links!
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Last week, the JURE committee of the European Voted to approve the current draft of the EU Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market this includes proposals to implement a link tax and that ISSPs must implement something akin to Google’s Content ID, to defend copyright from whatever. These are now it seems called upload filters….
Read moreHere is an image documenting the six data protection principles embedded in the GDPR. I made this using powerpoint and got the pictures from flickr. This page both established a URL and allows me to document the image credits and assert creative commons terms.
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Helen Weeds has published what seems to be a reworking of her Paper, ‘TV Wars: Exclusive Content and Platform Competition in Pay TV’ in the August Issue of the Economic Journal.
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As a result of the EP’s LIBE committee report on the EU Copyright Regulation, in Feb 2015, I built a Storify page and propose to write a blog article. This page captures some of the resources I used to write it. They come from my blog, the IP Kat, out-law.com, torrentfreak and flickr, where martin…
Read moreI need to write a script that installs author and copyright facts into my pictures. The EXIF libraries are what I need. I’ll also need a scripting language; I used cygwin bash as my prototyping environment.
Read moreI chose to embed a parliamentary video cast in one of my blog articles and this is the agreement required before it can be embedded. I can’t find a link, otherwise I’d do so. This was created in Dec 2013.
Read moreI made an omnibus article of my writings on open source, culture and copyright. This was dated 2012 in the blog but references earlier material. Some of it still holds good, some of it is passed it’s sell by date.
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