Weekly IP review (11th -15th June)
It’s Monday again and, as usual,
we got our very own IP review ready to share with you. If you had a really busy
week, this is your chance to catch up on what’s happening in the IP world.
Let’s start with copyright and
Europe. One of last week’s highlight was definitely the European Dialogue on
Internet Governance (EuroDig) conference held in Stockholm which included some
insightful seminars discussing copyright issues. You can find more details here. To get familiar with the conference
agenda, we would recommend as must - read Neelie Kroes’s (Vice-President of the European Commission responsible
for the Digital Agenda) speech
“A
European vision for internet governance” .
In
the UK, the copyright discussions are moving increasingly into the public
sphere. The Copyright Licensing Agency drafted a new Code of Conduct
and invited licensees and some of their representative bodies to submit
their comments by 6th July 2012 as part of a consultation process.
Moreover, the IPO released the summary
of responses (471 in total) received during the open consultation on copyright
issues. An expert, on the other hand, warned that implementing
quick changes to the copyright law may lead to trouble instead of
solving the existing problems.
A recent press
release of The Court of Justice of the European Union clarifies that Sky
football content can be reused in news without infringing copyright, if it is
under 90 seconds.
Moving away from Europe, we find again
some happy news for Google which finally ends a really long legal
dispute with a French publishing trade group and a French authors’
association over the scanning of
copyright-protected books. Google will financially support the SGDL
Society of Authors’ development of a database of book authors and right- owners, but declined to disclose the financial terms of
the support.
On another hand, a controversial anti-piracy
patent to stop students from sharing
textbooks has been trending on social networks, raising some important
educational problems. This approach pushes things a bit too far, disregarding
the issue of educational disadvantage and the students’ capacity to afford
buying the textbooks.
Having in mind an insightful
ArsTechnica piece on copyright
math and copyright currency, we met the absurdity of a New York federal court ruling which raises the
question whether selling your old iPad may be a copyright violation. Find our more
here.
Over in
Australia, ISP iiNet speaks out about the difficulties of negotiating with
Hollywood over copyright. Find out here why negotiating with the movie industry is like talking to a
‘brick wall’.
In Canada, however, writers and publishers speak with one voice on copyright, expressing their
support for the recent model collective licences signed
by the Association of Universities and Colleges of Canada (AUCC) and the Association of
Community Colleges of Canada (ACCC).
And last, but not least,
despite its less mature copyright law, India continues its struggle against
piracy in the movie industry with the new Copyright Infringement Detector developed by
Copyright Labs.
Have a good week and
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