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Copyrightuser.org Updated to Reflect Changes in UK Copyright Law

Posted . Filed under Creative Industries, Emergent Technologies, UK EU IP Policy.

Copyrightuser.org – a co-production between CIPPM Bournemouth University and CREATe, University of Glasgow – has been updated in light of the changes to UK copyright law made on 1 June 2014. Learning from the difficulties encountered by other initiatives in the field of copyright education, the Copyright User project aims at keeping up with the evolving copyright landscape. Copyrightuser.org offers… Read more » about Copyrightuser.org Updated to Reflect Changes in UK Copyright Law

R. Towse – Advanced Introduction to Cultural Economics

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Ruth Towse, Advanced Introduction to Cultural Economics (Edward Elgar Publishing: 2014) Description ‘Ruth Towse presents a fabulous, broad ranging overview of cultural economics. The book is up to the state of knowledge, is easy to read and reveals sound judgment. I highly recommend the book to anyone concerned about the relationship of culture to society… Read more » about R. Towse – Advanced Introduction to Cultural Economics

Online protest: towards a Magna Carta for the Internet

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CIPPM’s Argyro Karanasiou presented her paper Towards a Magna Carta : A right to online protests? at the 10th International conference on Internet, Law and Politics 2014. The paper discusses the free speech argument for treating DDoS attacks online as the digital counterpart of an online sit in. The paper examines the changing face of… Read more » about Online protest: towards a Magna Carta for the Internet

A. Karanasiou – Towards a Magna Charta for the Internet

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A Karanasiou, “Towards a Magna Carta for the Internet: A right to Online Protests?” inBalcells, J., Cerrillo i Martínez, A., Peguera, M., Peña-López, I., Pifarré de Moner, M.J., & Vilasau Solana, M. (coords.) (2014). Internet, Law and Politics. A decade of transformations. Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on Internet, Law & Politics. Universitat Oberta… Read more » about A. Karanasiou – Towards a Magna Charta for the Internet

Ruth Towse on the Digital Copyright Exchange

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Could technology override economics in the case of the Digital Copyright Exchange? Economic analysis of collective rights administration has so far strongly supported the natural monopoly case for single national collecting societies for particular bundles of rights protected by territorially based copyright law and the courts have gone along with that view. Digitization in the… Read more » about Ruth Towse on the Digital Copyright Exchange