The Almost-Halloween Copycat!

Let’s laid out amongst an event!

“Crisis inward Copyright Policy: How the digital monopolies bring cornered civilisation together with what it agency for all of us”

With Jonathan Taplin, University of Southern California together with writer of Move Fast together with Break Things, and Chaired past times Professor Sir Robin Jacob

It’s on Monday, 27 Nov 2017, from 18:00 to 19:30, together with it’s followed past times a reception!

The identify to be: UCL Cruciform Building, Gower Street, London WC1E 6BT

You tin majority your place here!

A Learned gild is answering questions!

ALAI (Association Littéraire et Artistique Internationale, International Literary together with Artistic Association) learned latterly that European Union Member States bring been asking questions to the Legal Service of the Council regarding Article thirteen together with Recital 38 of the Commission Proposal for a Directive on copyright inward the Digital Single Market.

 ALAI is answering iv questions virtually this text. You tin detect their farther reflections here!

The identify unit of measurement of Albert Namatjira recover his copyrights after xxx years of battle!

It was an injustice, together with it has been resolved to a greater extent than than xxx years after the outset of the battle past times the identify unit of measurement of Albert Namatjira! In Australia, it was the longest copyright battle of the country!

The outstanding artist's has been denied whatsoever rights or revenue from the move of the Aboriginal painter for to a greater extent than than xxx years. The painter is recognised equally Australia’s greatest indigenous painter, together with the foremost to move inward the western tradition.

One of Albert Namatjira’s extraordinary paintings

Small facts: i of its paintings was gifted to the Queen for her 21^st birthday inward 1947, together with he was the foremost indigenous creative soul to have international acclaim.

Before he died, he sold purpose of the copyright to his friend John Brackenreg of Legend Press inward 1957. Two years later, he died together with gave the residuum of his copyright to his married adult woman Robina together with his family. Thing is: its total copyright was sold to Legend Press for $8500 past times the direction of his volition was handed to the Northern Territory world trustee! And if it wasn’t enough, Legend Press position restrictions on the usage of Namatjira’s paintings together with images together with the royalties to his identify unit of measurement dried up!

Eight years ago, the identify unit of measurement began the battle to recover Namatjira copyrights, together with they fifty-fifty met the Queen!

Thanks to the expert volition of Dick Smith, a multimillionaire, who shared its connective amongst the family, which was able to rich i of the electrical flow owners of Legend Press. Surprise: after a xv minutes’ chat, Mr Philip Brackenreg gave dorsum the correct to the Namatjira Legacy Trust for $1!

A horrific tale - but happy ending to this story!

Missing data: Spinrilla is trying to bring copyright example dismissed!

Do y'all know Spinrilla? It’s an app where y'all tin access thousands of costless hip-hop mixtapes inward your pocket. Doesn’t it audio cool?

Problem: the application allows people to upload together with brain to unofficial mixtapes, which leads tooooo… yes, y'all got it, copyright infringement!

Thing is: they are infringing copyrights according to the USA tape industry! H5N1 lawsuit is filed against the hip-hop mixtape application past times the USA tape industry, together with things are going sour: Spinrilla has requested that the copyright infringement live on dismissed on the Earth that the major tape society failed to mitt over crucial information relating to the allegedly infringing tracks at the pump of the case. For Spinrilla, past times non providing this data, the label hindered its mightiness to mountain a defence, leaving the society “severely prejudiced”.

According to Spinrilla: “It is without exaggeration to state that past times hiding the RIAA spreadsheets together with that underlying data, defendants bring been severely prejudiced. The electrical charge should live on dismissed amongst prejudice and, if it is, plaintiffs tin alone blame themselves”

It seems a somewhat ambitious bid to bring the tape industry’s copyright example thrown out of court. But we’ll all the same expect amongst involvement to run into how the gauge overseeing the example responds.

This CopyKat from Lolita Huber-Froment