Tag: Intellectual property law
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New GYBO!
Very proud my pics have been used for the launch of GYBO 5.2 which looks mighty shiny! (on the frontpage, and also in the Cartel interview). And amazed McSleazy managed to do something with my slightly odd off-frame photo of Roy (he was always looking down the rest of the time! It was a real…
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Orphans and Widows
Following on from a Boing Boing post – and this great article by Mark Dery and have been researching this new Orphan Works Act and have been rather disturbed and worried. It reads like a land-grab on Intellectual Property rights that only the rich stock libraries or famous artists could afford to register or submit…
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Neon Sex People featured on Mashuptown! & Mash Up Yr Bootz, Berlin
Morgoth Djing/VJing at Mash Up Yr Bootz Ooh this is good – not only did I get to meet DJ Morgoth & friends at the excellent Mash Up Yr Bootz in Berlin, where not only was he mixing mashup videos and audio live (as well as some Radio Clash graphics amongst the ‘mix’ of mashup…
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Want to help change the arcane UK copyright law?
Some of you will know about the Gowers report on Copyright which recommended the loosening on rules around ‘fair use’ in the UK similarly to US rap groups and parodies in the US. Now according to the wonderful Open Rights group they are looking for examples from artists to give Patent Office where more relaxed…
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Legal mashups? Gowers review & Warners
As mentioned here before Open Right Group (podcasters might know them as Suw Charman spoke at the PodcastCon in another capacity) have been lobbying the Government and the Gowers Review, commissioned by the Treasury, into not extending the current UK copyright laws Cliff Richards and others were lobbying to extend musical copyright from the existing…