(28 March 2014) The UK’s Intellectual Property Office yesterday issued five draft statutory instruments on exceptions to copyright, following the Government’s 2010 review of intellectual property law, Digital Opportunity. The British Library welcomes the new exceptions, which will bring significant benefits for library users across the UK, and will support research, innovation and economic growth.…
(19 March 2014) To equip students and staff members with the essential knowledge of copyright and trademarks, the Knowledge Transfer Office (KTO), Run Run Shaw Library, and City University of Hong Kong Press are co-organizing a half-day training workshop on copyright and trademarks on 11 April 2014. It is the latest in the Intellectual Property…
18 March 2014) The DPLA has submitted an entry to the Knight Foundation’s News Challenge, which asks entrants to answer the question: how can we strengthen the Internet for free expression and innovation? Large-scale collections like the Digital Public Library of America, Europeana, Trove, and DigitalNZ are weakened by a lack of common agreement over…
(13 March 2014) Many common campus activities involve copyright. The Stanford University Libraries has published a Copyright Reminder to ensure that all members of the Stanford community have access to this critical information. The Copyright Reminder highlights common campus copyright concerns, and outlines the fundamental elements of US copyright law that apply in those situations.…
(26 February 2014) The Australian Law Reform Commission (ALRC) recently released a report proposing that a ‘fair use’ exception be introduced to Australian copyright law, moving from a closed list of exceptions to the open-ended fairness test which has characterized US copyright law since 1978. Simon Collinson ponders what the proposed introduction of fair use…
(17 February 2014) The Attorney-General has tabled the final report from the Australian Law Reform Commission’s (ALRC) Copyright and the Digital Economy inquiry. This inquiry was charged with determining if copyright exceptions and limitations were working in the digital age. The conclusion was that reform was needed. Among the recommendations are that fair use exceptions…
(13 February 2014, modified 14 February 2014) The Australian Law Reform Commission, ALRC, was asked to consider whether the current exceptions and statutory licences in the Copyright Act are adequate and appropriate in the digital era. The Report, tabled on 13 February 2014, is the result of an 18 month Inquiry during which the ALRC produced…
(8 February 2014) The seminar is co-organized by the Customs and Excise Department and Lingnan University’s Fong Sum Wood Library. In this seminar, the Inspectors from the Customs and Excise Department will introduce ways to protect and enforce intellectual property in Hong Kong. The seminar, in English, is on 20 February. Details are here.
(29 January 2014) Yesterday, the US House of Representatives Judiciary Subcommittee on Courts, Intellectual Property, and the Internet held another hearing on copyright review. This hearing focused on the scope of fair use and included five witnesses: Peter Jaszi (professor, American University), June Besek (professor, Columbia University), Naomi Novik (author and co-founder, Organization for Transformative…
Duke University’s Center for the Study of the Public Domain has posted an analysis of which books would have entered the public domain on 1 January 2014 if the maximum copyright term remained at 56 years. The change to 70 years protection from the death of the author became effective in 1978 due to the…
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