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The road to copyright reform is a long one, full of false starts and diversions. Those with good memories may recall the Gowers Review fr...

Here's yet another UK consultation on intellectual monopolies: David Lammy, Minister for Higher Education and Intellectual Property, ha...

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

One of the great things about the Gowers Review is that it used a solid economic analysis to show that extending the term of copyright in mu...

Here's an interesting thought : He also reported research that demonstrates patent renewal fees can be used to improve the innovation in...

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

The Gower Review was an important document for the UK. It offered a thoughtful and rigorous analysis of the current copyright situation the...

When the Gowers review of copyright in the UK came out I was ambivalent : there was some good things, but also areas that were potentially p...

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...

The Gowers Review is now out . I've not had time to read it all yet, but there's a good summary in the Treasury's press release...

Talking of RL and SL, this extremely witty piece is deeper than you might think: Volumes have already been written about real life, the mos...

The British Academy has traditionally been a rather staid institution, but this press release about a forthcoming report shows that they g...

Nope, not what I say (well, I do actually), but what the terribly grown-up and sensible National Consumer Council says . But wait, there&#...

I've written often enough about the rapacious, egotistical, and totally unreasonable demands of the recorded music industry when it come...