Showing posts with label copyright. Show all posts
Showing posts with label copyright. Show all posts
15 February 2023

Incoming: Spare Slots for Freelance Work in 2023

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I will soon have spare slots in my freelance writing schedule for regular weekly or monthly work, and major projects. Here are the main area...
03 March 2019

This Could Be The Most Important Email You Will Ever Send To Your MEP

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As most people reading this will know by now, the deeply-flawed EU Copyright Directive faces one final vote in the European Parliament soon...
04 July 2018

Countering the Latest Misinformation about the EU Copyright Directive

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Tomorrow the European Parliament will vote on whether to send its version of the Copyright Directive text to "trilogues" for fina...
02 July 2018

Please Write a *Short* Email to Your MEPs Today about EU Copyright Directive

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A couple of weeks ago, I urged people to write to their MEPs about an important vote in the Legal Affairs committee of the European Parl...
08 January 2018

Incoming: Spare Slots for Freelance Work in 2018

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I will soon have spare slots in my freelance writing schedule for regular weekly or monthly work, and major projects. Here are the ma...
29 March 2017

The Copyright Industry's So-Called "Value Gap" Is Actually an Innovation Gap

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The is a crucial year for the Internet in Europe, because 2017 will see key decisions made about the shape of copyright law in the EU. Tha...
04 January 2017

Spare Slots for Regular Freelance Work Soon Available

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I may soon have spare slots in my freelance writing schedule for regular work, or for larger, longer-term projects. Here are the ma...
02 January 2016

The Rise and Fall of TTIP, As Told in 51 Updates

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This year will be make or break for the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP).  It is already years behind its original, ho...
08 May 2015

TTIP explained: The secretive US-EU treaty that undermines democracy

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The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), sometimes known as the Transatlantic Free Trade Agreement (TAFTA), is currently ...
26 July 2014

A Rare Invitation To Help Shape European Copyright Law

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Back in May last year, we wrote about how the European Commission's "Licences for Europe" initiative had turned into a fias...

Has The Copyright War Been Won -- And If So, Are We About To Lose It Again?

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Reading Techdirt, it's all-too-easy to get the impression that copyright is an utter disaster for the public -- with current laws ab...

EU's Advocate-General Says Dutch Allowing Unauthorized Downloads Is Incompatible With European Copyright Law

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Back in 2012, Ben Zevenbergen wrote a long piece exploring a complicated Dutch case that had been referred to the Court of Justice of t...

Study: File Sharing Leads To More, Not Fewer, Musical Hits Being Written

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As Techdirt has noted many times, much of the debate around filesharing is driven by dogma rather than data. That's beginning to cha...
25 July 2014

Italy's Communications Watchdog Assigns Itself Extrajudicial Powers To Order ISPs To Stop Copyright Infringement

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The last six months have seen a fierce debate in Italy over a proposal by the Italian communications watchdog Agcom to grant itself wide-...

European Commission Admits It Plans To Put 'Corporate Christmas List' Of IP Demands Into TAFTA/TTIP

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A few months ago, we quoted the EU trade commissioner Karel De Gucht , who is responsible for handling the TAFTA/TTIP negotiations on the...

59 Bootleg Beatles Tracks Released Officially -- For All The Wrong Reasons

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Back in January, Sony released the 'Bob Dylan Copyright Collection Volume'. As its name shamelessly proclaims, that was purely ...

New Creative Commons Licenses Released For Intergovernmental Organizations

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Even though Creative Commons licenses have only been in existence for just over a decade, it's now hard to imagine the online world ...
24 July 2014

UK Court Rules That Software Functionality Is Not Subject To Copyright

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Yesterday, Mike wrote about some worrying indications that the US Appeals Court may be considering overturning a ruling that APIs aren...

Increasing European Moves To Block Access To Websites Accused Of Helping People Infringe Copyrights

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In their obsessive war on piracy, the copyright industries have tried various approaches. For a while, the "three strikes and out...

Royalty Collection Agency SABAM Sued By Belgian Government Over 'Piracy License' Plans

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Back in May, we wrote about how the Belgian music royalty collection agency SABAM was taking ISPs there to court over its demand for 3....