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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&qu...

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...