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New Initiatives by the European Commission and UK
The Copyright and Enforcement Directorate of the UK’s Intellectual Property Office has reported on two new EU developments in a broadcast email. Since I can’t find the URL for the Directorate [I can't...
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European Music Rights Database Project Issues RFP
A request for proposals (RFP) has been issued for a Global Repertoire Database (GRD), which would contain rights holder information for music to be licensed throughout the European Union. Submissions...
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How High Will Spotify’s Paid Subscribership Go?
More on the direct consumer revenue trend: the first set of results of Spotify’s US launch are in, courtesy of the Wall Street Journal’s All Things D. As of earlier this week, only a month into the...
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European High Court Says No to ISP-Level Copyright Filtering
Last Thursday the European Court of Justice (ECJ) ruled that ISPs cannot be held responsible for filtering traffic on their networks in order to catch copyright infringements. This ruling was the...
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IFPI Claims Success of Progressive Reponse in Curbing Infringement
The International Federation for the Phonographic Industry (IFPI), the global umbrella of national music trade associations like the RIAA in the United States, published its annual Digital Music Report...
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Hadopi Becomes un Ballon de Football Politique
Those of us who deal with the so-called copyright wars here in the United States can take comfort in one thing: the battles between Big Media and Big Tech have mostly avoided getting sucked into this...
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Graduated Response in the Post-Sarkozy Era
Now that Nicolas Sarkozy is no longer president of France, there’s some question about the future of the graduated response regime that was implemented during his tenure in the Elysee Palace through...
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Copyright and Technology London 2012 and Hadopi
The first European edition of the Copyright and Technology conference took place in London this past Tuesday. The highlight of the event was surely the non-appearance of the keynote speaker: Eric...
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The Future of HADOPI
A recently-released report from the French government, Rapport sur les autorités publiques indépendantes (Report on the Independent Public Authorities), includes a section on HADOPI (Haute Autorité...
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Netherlands Rejects Ban on Illegal Downloads
A lengthy political debate in the Netherlands has resulted in rejection of a law banning illegal downloads in that country, as the Dutch parliament finally voted against the law yesterday. This...
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MEGA CEO to speak at Copyright and Technology London 2013
With less than three weeks to go until our Copyright and Technology London 2013 conference, I’m very pleased to announce some additions and updates to the conference agenda. Most importantly, Vikram...
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E-Book Watermarking Gains Traction in Europe
The firm Rüdiger Wischenbart Content and Consulting has just released the latest version of Global eBook, its overview of the worldwide ebook market. This sweeping, highly informative report is...
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Announcing Copyright and Technology London 2014
I’m pleased to announce that our next Copyright and Technology London conference will take place on Wednesday, October 1, at the offices of ReedSmith in the City of London. This is the same beautiful...
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Copyright Alert System Releases First Year Results
The Center for Copyright Information (CCI) released a report last month summarizing the first calendar year of activity of the Copyright Alert System (CAS), the United States’ voluntary graduated...
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Announcing Copyright and Technology London 2015
For our fourth Copyright and Technology conference in London, we will be moving up from October to June — Thursday June 18, to be precise. The venue will be the same as in previous years: the offices...
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European Commission Issues Communication on Digital Single Market
The European Commission this past week published the first in a series of documents that mark its progress toward the objective of creating a Digital Single Market for all EU member states. The...
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The ECJ’s Inconclusive Ruling on Library E-Book Lending
We’ve been looking for a while at the question of whether First Sale rights apply to digital files. If you get an e-book or music download, can you resell, lend, or give it away to someone else — as...
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Dutch Public Libraries and the “One Copy, One User” Rule
I took a little bit of heat from certain members of the library community who were bothered by my analysis last week of the European Court of Justice’s (ECJ’s) decision in the case of Vereniging...
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Sacem’s Partnership with IBM
IBM announced a deal with the French music rights collecting society Sacem last week to co-develop a new system called URights. The system is expected to launch by the end of this year, and the...
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Readium LCP Set to Launch
The 2017 EPUB Summit in Brussels this past week was the venue for the beta launch and first live demos of the Readium LCP DRM technology for EPUB-formatted e-books. I’ve discussed aspects of the...
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