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Friday, 3 May 2013

Orphan Works - the new law in the UK

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My social media feeds have been full links to alarmist stories about a recent change to UK copyright law that allows for the licensing of o...
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Tuesday, 3 July 2012

The defamation bill 2012 and the web

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I have already commented on one aspect of the  Defamation Bill 2012  that is directly aimed at operators of websites, but there are two oth...
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Sunday, 17 June 2012

The Communications Data Bill (first look)

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On Thursday the government announced the Communications Data Bill. The official copy is available as CM8359  but the open rights group have ...
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Tuesday, 12 June 2012

Trolls and the defamation bill 2012

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The  Defamation Bill 2012  had its second reading in the House of Commons today. One aspect of the bill which did not (as far as I can see) ...
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Thursday, 24 May 2012

Copyright in industrial art - more protection

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The problem with copyright is that it isn't strong enough - are words you are unlikely to hear me say. Today clause 55  of the Enterpris...
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Wednesday, 26 October 2011

Newzbin2 - the order

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The High Court has just handed down its order in "Newzbin2". For those not following the story so far goes like this: newzbin (...
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Thursday, 20 October 2011

Can we force facebook to give us its "like" database?

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Jim Killock of the Open Rights Group pointed me at an interesting response made by facebook to an Irish student named Max's subject ac...
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