Rock, Paper, Public Domain
John Walker, of Rock, Paper, Shotgun, recently wrote a very interesting (not to mention comprehensive) article entitled “Why Games Should Enter the Public Domain” on the place of Public Domain in the...
View ArticleYou Can Now Rip CDs And Parody Copyrighted Material! UK Public Confused As To...
That’s right ladies and gentlemen! You may now take that cumbersome CD collection you have to carry around everywhere with you and rip the music onto your computer or portable media playing device for...
View ArticleAn Introduction to Augmented Reality and the Law
This will be another post based on work I did during my time at the University of Edinburgh last year – this time covering the weird and wonderful topic of “augmented reality”. While it may sound like...
View ArticleTechnollama: “Do monkeys dream of electric copyright?”
I just read this very interesting piece by one of my favourite IT Law experts, Andres Guadamuz, aka “Technollama“, about the recent confusion regarding copyright for monkey-selfies. Really there are...
View ArticleDigital Panic! No, Facebook is Not Spying on You Through Their Messenger App
Just because the fourth instance of people reacting to the changes regarding the Facebook app and Facebook messenger app has come to my attention, I think I should make this clear; Articles and posts...
View ArticleReforms to UK Copyright Exceptions FINALLY Come Into Effect
As some of you might remember, a few months back I wrote about imminent reforms to UK copyright law exceptions, including finally allowing users to create backup copies and ‘personal copies for private...
View ArticleDigital Panic 2.0! Facebook Are Still Not Going to Steal Your Copyright /...
Happy New Year ladies, gentlemen, all in between, and none of the above! As always a new year brings new resolutions to be broken, new goals to be abandoned, and, of course, new hoaxes to be unmasked...
View ArticleAspiring Simian Photographer Loses Copyright Case
A while back I drew attention to a rather excellent piece by Technollama entitled “Do Monkeys Dream of Electric Copyright?“, which, right when the saga of Naruto the aspiring simian photographer was...
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