Copyright - Intellectual Property - Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 - EU Copyright Directive - Copyright and Related Rights Regulations 2003 - DMCA - Digital Millennium Copyright Act 2000
Copy Protection Has Failed Music distributors will start to strip copy protection software from their download products in the next few months, iTunes and other sites forced to sell files containing digital rights management (DRM) software that restricts devices that can play the music 08.02.07 Guardian, Entertainment Law, Internet Regulation, Media Law
Drop DRM, Says Jobs Apple chief Steve Jobs is calling on European states to drop anti-competitive cases against iTunes, which will only play on iPods, says they should push for music industry to drop digital rights management, real barrier to selling music for all players 07.02.07 Financial Times, Apple, EU Competition, Entertainment Law
Not Your Tube Viacom, owner of MTV, has asked YouTube to remove 100k files over which it claims copyright, prolonged talks to reach deal on 'fair use' have failed to reach conclusion 05.02.07 BBC, Google, Internet Regulation, Media Law
Google to Remove Copiepresse Content In an eagerly awaited judgment, a Brussels court has largely confirmed a preliminary order in favour of Copiepresse, a trade association representing French and German newspapers, in a copyright infringement action, Google News must remove all Copiepresse-owner material on pain of daily penalties 26.02.07 EU Law, Google, Internet Regulation, Media Law
Traps in Gowers Gowers Review of intellectual property upset much of the music community by failing to suggest that the term of copyright in sound recordings should become aligned with US law, but there is more to Gowers than this 08.01.07 Michael Simkins, Gowers Review, Intellectual Property
ECJ Rules Against Google News Court of First Instance has found for Copiepresse, which brought claim against Google News, ordered to remove content from cache on its servers and remove links to articles, Court said excerpts were copyright but did not explicitly decide on status of hyperlink to cached article 07.11.06 Eversheds, Google, Intellectual Property, Internet Regulation, Media Law
Photo Royalties Just a day after the introduction of the Resale Right for Artists in the UK, the world record for the highest price paid for a photo was set in the US at 1.6 million 27.03.06 Simkins, Media Law
File Sharing Following pressure on the Government to make file sharing illegal, a Commission has recommended measures for updating the management of online rights in musical works and the establishment of an EU-wide copyright licensing system 02.12.05 Law Now, Internet Piracy, Media Law
Music Rights Musical copyright has been one of the great legal tangles of recent years, with P2P file sharing on the internet leading to mass proliferation of pirated material, a history of musical rights from Berne to the Grokster and KaZaa cases and recent statutory reform Part III of III 13.09.05 Sally Ramage, Internet Piracy Links, MGM v Grokster Links, Media Law Links
Music Rights Musical copyright has been one of the great legal tangles of recent years, with P2P file sharing on the internet leading to mass proliferation of pirated material, a history of musical rights from Berne to the Grokster and KaZaa cases and recent statutory reform Part II of III 13.09.05 Sally Ramage, Internet Piracy Links, MGM v Grokster Links, Media Law Links
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Da Vinci Code Litigants Face Ruin Michael Baigent and Richard Leigh face bankruptcy following failure of appeal in claim Dan Brown bestseller Da Vinci Code breached copyright of their own book, Holy Blood and the Holy Grail 29.03.07 Daily Mail, Da Vinci Code
Times Pursued for Hendrix CD Rights owners Experience Hendrix and Last Experience are suing Sunday Times over CD distributed with paper, claim reproduction of performances at Royal Albert Hall were not properly cleared 21.03.07 Guardian, Entertainment Law, Media Law
Mail Defends Publishing Princes Diary Appealing injunction against publishing Prince Charles' diary, Daily Mail tells Appeal Ct public had right to know views on Chinese leaders as 'part fo debate' Daily Mail Lawyers say, without full hearing, judge was wrong to say privacy outweighed public right to know 28.11.06 Reuters, Media Law, Privacy
Musical Judge to Rule on Shade of Pale Mr Justice William Blackburne studied music and law at Cambridge, anxious for use of organ to decide on dispute between Matthew Fisher and Gary Brooker over composition of opening of Procol Harum hit Whiter Shade of Pale 14.11.06 Daily Mail, Entertainment Law
Court Clash for Procol Harum Portable organs are to be brought into court to decide copyright claim over Whiter Shade of Pale, Matthew Fisher says he wrote the Bach-style introduction, Gary Brooker and Keith Reid say song is theirs 13.11.06 BBC, Entertainment Law
