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A few weeks ago, the Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Act 2013 received Royal Assent. Among its rag-bag of measures are some dealing wit...

The UK's new orphan works legislation allows works to be classed as orphans only after a "diligent search" has been conduct...

Orphan works (or maybe that should be " hostage works ") have become a really hot area in the copyright debate. That's beca...

Words matter -- just think of the number of times flame wars have broken out in Techdirt's comments over whether you can "steal...

One of the unresolved problems of copyright is how to deal with huge numbers of orphan works -- creations still in copyright, but whose o...

This is droll: the European Commission is finally waking up to the copyright orphans problem - thanks to some healthy panic induced by Googl...

As readers of this blog will have noticed, I'm not a big fan of intellectual monopolies like copyright or patents. For the former, I...

I've written about this project several times; here's the latest info : Europe's cultural institutions plan to launch a prototy...

Oh dear, Larry's still having no luck rolling back US copyright law: In a move that's a blow to the U.S. movement to reform copyrig...

The British Library is not normally regarded as a beacon of enlightened thought when it comes to intellectual monopolies - it's in cahoo...