Abstract: Copyright, originally conceived as a tool to protect the author and to provide incentives to create for the benefit of society, is nowadays more and more perceived as a mechanism to the advantage of “large, impersonal and unlovable corporations”.…
The Kenya Copyright Board (KEBCO) is preparing to propose amendments to the Copyright Act that would block sites hosting content which infringes local creators’ copyrights. Local internet service providers that refuse to take down content would face fines and even…
Dr Belinda Townsend, Dr Pat Ranald and Dr Deborah Gleeson Click here for full document (PDF). Excerpted IP and ISDS Sections Follow: Leaked negotiating texts by Japan and South Korea for an intellectual property (IP) chapter in RCEP are particularly…
[European Copyright Society] On June 11, 2015, the Advocate-General Pedro Cruz Villalón delivered his Opinion in the HP Belgium v. Reprobel case now pending before the Court of Justice of the EU (CJEU, case C-572/13). This Opinion and the underlying…