Patricia Akester, a colleague of mine in the Centre for Intellectual Property and Information Law has just published the results of her recent research in the form of a 208 page report entitled Technological accommodation of conflicts between freedom of expression and DRM: the first empirical assessment.
There has been a lot of [...]
Yesterday, the European Parliament voted on the term extension proposal.
Unfortunately though opposition was substantial it was not enough to prevent the modified (70-year) extension passing:
Amendment in favour of the rejection: 222 IN FAVOUR, 370 AGAINST, 10 ABSTENTION Key amendment to ensure benefits only to performers: rejected (no roll-call vote so numbers unknown) [...]The Government announced last summer a further review of how trading funds supply PSI. The results of this review had been expected with the budget.
However, instead of the results of a review, trading funds were included in the report of the Operational Efficiency Programme in the section on “Asset management and sales” [...]
Tomorrow, the European Parliament will vote on the issue of copyright term extension for sound recordings, known in Parliamentese as “the Crowley Report (A6-0070/2009) on the Term of protection of copyright and related rights” (Mr Brian Crowley is the rapporteur for this report and a strong supporter of the extension).
Extending term would be a [...]
Yesterday (Monday) The Times published an open letter signed by many of the leading UK academics concerned with the issue of copyright term extension.
The letter, of which I was a signatory, is focused on the change in the UK government’s position (from one of opposition to a term extension to, it appears, one [...]
Lots of people have been up in arms about a letter sent out by Ordnance Survey about the “Use of Google Maps for display and promotion purposes”. With titles like “Are the Show Us A Better Way winners safe from Ordnance Survey?” (Guardian), “Home Secretary’s crime maps not allowed say Ordnance Survey” (localgov.co.uk) [...]
When our report on PSI provision at trading funds was published alongside the budget in March, the Government promised further investigation. They have now commissioned another review this time done by the Shareholder Executive/HMT (full ToR on Shareholder Executive website:
The review, announced as part of Budget 2008, will be conducted by [...]
Following up on their commitments in the 2008 Budget (see previous post dealing on publication of ‘Cambridge Study’ today BERR and HMT announced a review of Trading Funds. It will be run by the Shareholder Executive with input from HMT and OPSI. The main task of this review, according to the announcement, [...]
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