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Copyright is nominally a compact between public and creator. A government-backed, time-limited monopoly on their works is offered to artists...

I and many others have noted how changes in copyright law only ever work in one direction: to *increase* copyright's term and to give gr...

Another impressive line-up of mega-academics denouncing the lack of logic for the proposed copyright extension currently being considered in...

Cold comfort, but the UK government is being more sensible than most others on the sound copyright extension: David Lammy, the U.K. ministe...

...one of the bigger wrongs in the field of copyright is the proposed extension for sound recordings. I've written extensively about w...

When the Gowers Review on intellectual monopolies came out almost exactly two years ago, it was remarkable for its eminently sensible approa...

More incisive reporting from the BBC - not. This time, it concerns the move to extend performers' copyright from 50 to 70 years. The ...

Blimey, it must be Porcine Aerobatics Week or something. Here 's the UK IPO - the official keeper of things "eye-pea" - on th...

Even though the Gowers Review comprehensively trashed the idea of extending copyright for sound recordings, zombie-like it's back as a P...

You can't help wondering whether Sarkozy's chanteuse missus had something to do with this one : Taking a position contrary to that o...

The benighted policy of extending copyright terms again and again is made visible in a nice graphic accompanying this post : The term of cop...

Sir Cliff Richard, Tony's bosom pal, was one of the leading, er, lights in the effort to extend the sound copyright to a mere 95 years, ...

Will this response from the UK Department for Culture, Media and Sport go down in history as the great turning point for copyright, when th...

Let me count the ways : David Cameron has pledged to extend copyright on music to 70 years - in exchange for an effort by music bosses to cu...