http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2006/09/15/copyright-grab-bag-bill-moving-fast/ Information, Law, and the Law of Information Tue, 24 Nov 2009 00:08:14 -0500 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.8.4 hourly 1 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2006/09/15/copyright-grab-bag-bill-moving-fast/comment-page-1/#comment-839 Info/Law » British Library Recommends Harmonizing Digital, Non-Digital IP Law Tue, 26 Sep 2006 15:38:17 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2006/09/15/copyright-grab-bag-bill-moving-fast/#comment-839 [...] Ars Technica has the story of a new “Intellectual Property Manifesto” issued yesterday by the British Library. The Library recommends a number of changes to UK intellectual property law, the general thrust of which would be to diminish the differences between the scope of IP rights that authors enjoy in the digital and analog domains. As in the United States, European copyright law grants a number of additional legal rights to copyright owners whose works are issued in digital form above and beyond the ordinary copyright rights to prevent unauthorized duplication and the like. The British Library’s manifesto (available here and worth a read; it’s not lengthy) suggests curtailing those additional rights, which would shrink digital IP law back to something more resembling the traditional historical contours of copyright doctrine. The Library’s proposal also would make clear that “fair dealing” privileges (analogous to what we in the U.S. would categorize as “fair uses”) extend equally to digital and non-digital works alike. Finally, the “manifesto” also offers recommendations on dealing with copyright duration and with orphan works, which (as Bill mentioned here and here) has also been the subject of a great deal of attention here in the U.S. recently. [...] [...] Ars Technica has the story of a new “Intellectual Property Manifesto” issued yesterday by the British Library. The Library recommends a number of changes to UK intellectual property law, the general thrust of which would be to diminish the differences between the scope of IP rights that authors enjoy in the digital and analog domains. As in the United States, European copyright law grants a number of additional legal rights to copyright owners whose works are issued in digital form above and beyond the ordinary copyright rights to prevent unauthorized duplication and the like. The British Library’s manifesto (available here and worth a read; it’s not lengthy) suggests curtailing those additional rights, which would shrink digital IP law back to something more resembling the traditional historical contours of copyright doctrine. The Library’s proposal also would make clear that “fair dealing” privileges (analogous to what we in the U.S. would categorize as “fair uses”) extend equally to digital and non-digital works alike. Finally, the “manifesto” also offers recommendations on dealing with copyright duration and with orphan works, which (as Bill mentioned here and here) has also been the subject of a great deal of attention here in the U.S. recently. [...]

]]> http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2006/09/15/copyright-grab-bag-bill-moving-fast/comment-page-1/#comment-822 Info/Law » Copyright Bill Probably Dead for the Year Wed, 20 Sep 2006 19:43:13 +0000 http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/infolaw/2006/09/15/copyright-grab-bag-bill-moving-fast/#comment-822 [...] Public Knowledge reports that today’s scheduled Judiciary Committee markup of the copyright bill I discussed here was cancelled. That’s the second time the committee has postponed consideration of the legislation, although last week the reason was purportedly lack of time. [...] [...] Public Knowledge reports that today’s scheduled Judiciary Committee markup of the copyright bill I discussed here was cancelled. That’s the second time the committee has postponed consideration of the legislation, although last week the reason was purportedly lack of time. [...]

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