The AHRC Research Centre (aka my employer) are hosting an Open Forum entitled Gowers Review of Intellectual Property: Challenges for Scotland, discussing, funnily enough, The Gowers Review of Intellectual Property. The event goes from 6-8pm on Wednesday 7th February in Lecture Theatre 175 in Old College. Gowers, in the report, asks for (possibly) statutory damages: [...]

Two Scottish firms, Patent and Trade Mark powerhouse Marks & Clerk and Pinsent Masons — who are big on IT issues and publish the excellent OUT-LAW — are expanding their operations in China. [The Herald]. For those of you in and around Austin, EFF-Austin’s next general meeting will be on 15 February at Cafe Caffeine, [...]

I am pleased to announce that the Personality Rights Database, in new and improved Wiki format, is now live and ready for editing! The new wiki, which I set up, is a portal of the great work done on the original database. The entire project is part of the AHRC Research Centre for Studies in [...]

I’ve been browsing the photo collections in the Library of Congress. One of their latest collections is photographs of ‘America from the Great Depression to World War II’. Unlike in the UK, which has Crown Copyright, works by the United States Goverment do not have copyright. No copyright permission is needed to use the photos [...]

Been busy for the past few days working on materials for the Free Trade Project. Check out the latest posts at the blog. Here are some of the links and news that I’ve been reading for the week. YouTube is talking to Japanese content owners over copyright licensing. Many Japanese publishers had complained this fall [...]