Not quite, but the UK-based Football Association Premier League (FAPL) will not be celebrating the ruling of the European Court of Justice (ECJ) on the subject…
I am a little late with this comment on the ECJ’s decision released two weeks ago that tackles issues of copyright levies in Europe. In a nutshell, the idea beh…
As known to many, the Copyright Term Extension Act of 1998 (CTEA) added 20 years to the duration of copyrights. Writing for the majority in Eldred v. Ashcroft,…
Prof. Lessig’s essay in yesterday’s Wall Street Journal is available here. One thing that caught my eye was an anonymous reader’s comment, containing the follow…
I came across this anecdote earlier this week, reading in the Israeli press about a judge who quoted in a court opinion an article from the Hebrew Wikipedia, bu…
Something significant has happened in the world of free licensing, Lessig has the details and a video. Apparently, an important step has been made towards inter…
Zdnet reports on a new initiative in France to tighten copyright protection over the Internet and prevent illegal downloading. The French president himself gave…
Some time ago I posted an update about the planned copyright reform in Israel. The Israeli copyright law now passed legislation and the text of the new statute…
A federal district court in Georgia ordered a jury trial last week on the question whether a thirteen year old defendant was an innocent infringer or not. In El…