Archive for the ‘Intellectual property issues’ Category
Monday, January 16th, 2006
Yay! Looks like I'll be presenting my paper on an early - 6th century A.D. - Irish copyright case at the ICA conference in Dresden. [Yes, I'm aware it's a rather specialized topic.] More fun - it appears that Jürgen Habermas will be one of the keynote speakers.
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Monday, January 16th, 2006
Courtesy of Simon, an odd story on the Toasted Heretic website, about how they have been sent a cease-and-desist in response to their use of (a parody of) the Tayto-man logo on their new album, Now in New Nostalgia Flavour, which is essentially a reissue of their 1980s albums, which ...
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Tuesday, November 29th, 2005
Terrorism. Organised crime. File sharing. Just rolls off the tongue, doesn't it? That's what the music industry seems to think in Europe, where they are lobbying for the proposed data retention directive to beextended to cover all criminal offences, including piracy, and not just "serious" crimes, as the original proposal ...
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Saturday, August 6th, 2005
I reported some time ago on the EU directive that required libraries to pay copyright holders every time a text is borrowed. The context of that post was that the Irish government, in implementing the directive, had exercised a clause allowing certain classes of libraries to be exempted and in ...
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Monday, July 4th, 2005
Scríobh mé chuig RTE ag moladh go dtosnódh RnaG ag podcraoladh. Fuair mé r-phost inniú freagra inniu ag míniú nach mbeidh RTÉ nó RnaG ag podcraoladh mar:With regards to the podcast and mp3 issues we can't do it for legal reasons due with the copyrights of music on the shows ...
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Saturday, June 25th, 2005
This is bizarre. The U.S. copyright office is proposing that the compsulory right of artists to record covers (subject to a non-discriminatory fee) be abolished. The record companies are opposing the move - so for once they're seeing the problems with decreasing options to build on prior art, since their ...
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Saturday, June 25th, 2005
Via Clancy I came across word of an article by Robert Spoo in the Yale Law Review that argues that Ulysses is out of copyright in the United States. The core of the argument seems to be that since Joyce and the publishers of Ulysses did not comply with the ...
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Thursday, June 23rd, 2005
Word today that there's going to be movement on the European software patents issue in early July. The European Parliament will vote on the second reading of the directive sometime between fifth and seventh July. FFII, who have been running much of the campaign against the patents, claim that lobbying ...
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Tuesday, June 21st, 2005
I must admit to having been somewhat perplexed by the manner in which Creative Commons chose to celebrate the first birthday of the Free Culture Movement. As has been noted in a comment on Lessig's site using the 'Happy Birthday' tune is a somewhat odd choice. Kembrew McLeod reports the ...
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Thursday, May 5th, 2005
This is bizarre. I'm no fan of Westlife as a 'musical' group but I can't help feeling they've been wronged here. The EU's Court of First Instance has annulled the decision to grant the band an EU trademark in the word Westlife - on the grounds that a German tobacco ...
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