Lord Triesman, current Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Intellectual Property and Quality, spoke on Tuesday (8 Jan.) at the British Library at the launch of the UK Intellectual Property Office’s new consultation “Taking forward the Gowers Review of Intellectual Property: Proposed changes to copyright exceptions”. This consultation will look specifically at implementing parts of [...]

For those interested readers that don’t also have my other blog in their feed, we’ve released the new site and set of legal tools related to open data, all available at: http://opendatacommons.org

I’ve mentioned a few times on this blog about open access to legal publishing in the UK and how we should all start the ball rolling on discussing some of the issues. As I was thinking about it some more this morning, I think that we need a speed geek on open access to law [...]

The JISC IPR Consultancy was started in October 2005 to provide expert advice to JISC in the area of intellectual property rights. IPR Consultants Naomi Korn and Charles Oppenheim talked to Sara Hassen, JISC Communications Manager, in a Skype interview about the interesting challenges we will face related to IPR in the education sector associated [...]

I just did a check in Westlaw for some citations, and realised that my paper on Japanese anime, fansubs, and copyright was cited in: R. Tushnet, “Domain and Forum: Public Space, Public Freedom”, 30 Colum. J.L. & Arts 597 (2007). [Link] -and- R. Tushnet, “Payment in Credit: Copyright law and subcultural creativity”, 70-SPG Law & [...]

For an industry that has traditionally seen itself as outside of copyright, the implications of copyright laws may be wide ranging. A look at several widely available “waiver and release” forms reveals a concern over the risks inherent in the tattoo process—releases for allergic reactions, scarring, color variations, misspellings, and the like—in an effort to [...]

Just a quick note that things have been heating up over at opencontentlawyer.com on the new open data licence that Charlotte Waelde and myself have been working on. Go on over and have a look if you are interested in open licensing.