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CREATe Public Lecture 2017: the Case for a Related Right for Press Publishers

CREATe is the Research Council UK’s Centre for Copyright as well as New Business Models inwards the Creative Economy at the School of Law – University of Glasgow. The Centre is headed upwards past times Professor Martin Kretschmer.

On Feb 14^th, Thomas Hoeppner (Professor of Civil Law, Business Law and  Intellectual Property Law, Wildau Technical University of Applied Sciences, and, Partner inwards a Berlin based constabulary firm), volition introduce on “EU copyright reform: the illustration for a related correct for press publishers.”

The The Qualcomm Fellowship is a two-year, residential postdoctoral programme specifically designed to identify, cultivate, as well as promote promising scholars early on inwards their careers amongst a primary involvement inwards intellectual belongings as well as its connectedness to ane or to a greater extent than of property, contracts, torts, commercial law, unjust enrichment, restitution, equity, as well as remedies. Fellows guide hold been selected from amid recent graduates, immature academics, as well as mid-career practitioners who are committed to pursuing publishable interrogation probable to brand a meaning contribution to private constabulary scholarship.

Fellows devote their total fourth dimension to scholarly activities inwards furtherance of their private interrogation agendas. In addition, fellows contribute to the intellectual life of the Project as well as the Harvard Law School community through mentoring students, presenting their interrogation inwards as well as attention faculty workshops as well as seminars, helping to organize as well as participating inwards Centre events, as well as blogging.

Purpose

The Project on the Foundations of Private Law is an interdisciplinary interrogation programme at Harvard Law School dedicated to scholarly interrogation inwards private law. Applicants should last aspiring academics amongst a primary involvement inwards intellectual belongings (especially, patent, copyright, trademark as well as merchandise secret) as well as its connectedness to ane or to a greater extent than of property, contracts, torts, commercial law, unjust enrichment, restitution, equity as well as remedies. The Project welcomes applicants amongst a serious involvement inwards legal structures as well as institutions, as well as welcomes a multifariousness of perspectives, including economics, history, philosophy as well as comparative law. The Qualcomm Postdoctoral Fellowship inwards Private Law as well as Intellectual Property is specifically designed to identify, cultivate as well as promote promising IP scholars early on inwards their career.

More information tin give the axe last constitute at http://www.law.harvard.edu/programs/about/privatelaw/index.html

Programme

The Qualcomm Postdoctoral Fellowship inwards Private Law as well as Intellectual Property is a full-time, 2 twelvemonth residential appointment, starting inwards the Fall of 2017. Like other postdoctoral fellows, IP Fellows devote their total fourth dimension to scholarly activities inwards furtherance of their private interrogation agendas inwards intellectual belongings as well as private law.

Eligibility

By the rootage of the fellowship term, applicants must concord a J.D. or other graduate constabulary degree. Applications volition last evaluated past times the character as well as in all probability significance of their interrogation proposals, as well as past times their tape of academic professional person achievement

For to a greater extent than information, delight contact Bradford Conner, conner@law.harvard.edu.

Applications must last received past times March 1, 2017.

DailyMotion Permanently Blocked inwards Russian Federation As H5N1 Consequence of Copyright Complaints

DailyMotion, the video-hosting platform, has been permanently blocked inwards Russia.

The Moscow City courtroom has ordered local ISPs to block subscribers from accessing DailyMotion. In other jurisdictions, this stair out is normally reserved for ‘pirate’ sites, such every bit The Pirate Bay as well as Book-Fi.

The blocking of DailyMotion is a outcome of repeated allegations of copyright infringement past times Gazprom Media, also every bit DailyMotion’s alleged inadequacy inwards dealing amongst those allegations. his story began dorsum inwards 2016, when Gazprom Media discovered that video clips from ane of its TV channels were beingness hosted on DailyMotion without permission. Gazprom Media told Russia’s Gazeta that its representatives had sent several complaints to DailyMotion’s offices over the course of pedagogy of 2016 but no response was received. Gazprom Media had DailyMotion URLs blocked at to the lowest degree twice during 2016 past times the Moscow City Court. In Dec of 2016, DailyMotion was given a finally jeopardy to withdraw the job clips from its platform. The subsequent failure of DailyMotion to comply amongst the Moscow City’s courts monastic say has led it to engage the laws applying to repeat copyright infringers, thus giving an monastic say to local ISPs to block DailyMotion permanently.

In comments made to The Hollywood Reporter, a spokesman for DailyMotion stated that the companionship had no noesis of whatever ongoing courtroom physical care for against it as well as was going to “take all necessary steps to brand contact amongst relevant regime inwards Russian Federation to resolve the issue.”

Shattered Mirror; News, Democracy as well as trust inwards the digital historic menstruum

Just a few days ago, the Public Policy Forum released its anticipated report on the hereafter of Canadian media, entitled, “Shattered Mirror; News, Democracy as well as trust inwards the digital age.” The refuse of the tidings manufacture is a hot theme across Blue Planet at the moment, amongst the proposed neighbouring correct for tidings publishers constitute inwards the Proposal for a Directive of the European Parliament as well as of the Council on copyright inwards the Digital Single Market sparking much debate across Europe.

The study makes 12 recommendations (summarised here), including a review of the Copyright Act’s fair-dealing rules inwards monastic say to strengthen the rights of tidings originators to command their intellectual property.

The Copyright Act’s fair-dealing rules

The most recent iteration of Canada’s Copyright Act was enacted inwards 2012, as well as is due to last reviewed this year. It includes a serial of listed exceptions to copyright infringement, including a fair dealing exception for tidings reporting at Article 29.2. The fair dealing exception inwards relation to tidings reporting country that;

“Fair dealing for the role of tidings reporting does non infringe copyright if the next are mentioned:

(a)  The source; and

(b)  If given the source, the yell of the

a.       Author, inwards the illustration of a work,

b.      Performer, inwards the illustration of a work,

c.       Maker, inwards the illustration of a audio recording, or

d.      Broadcaster, inwards the illustration of a communication signal”

Reviewing the Copyright Act’s fair-dealing rules to strengthen rights of tidings originators to command their intellectual belongings (recommendation number 4)

The Public Policy Forum recommends on page xc of the report a review which “tightens usage of copyrighted tidings textile inwards favour of creators, without unduly stifling the social ability of sharing on the Internet. News producers guide hold a correct to exercise goodness from their move for a reasonable menstruum spell pursuing the job concern strategy of their choice.”

The study goes on;

“In many cases, the number arises when aggregators, bloggers or others occupation textile without permission. This is skilful for the aggregator, as well as mayhap convenient for the consumer, but fifty-fifty if the textile links dorsum to its source, the master copy producer should last able to stimulate upwards one's hear whether it wants to portion – as well as whether it wants to negotiate compensation inwards some form.”

An anecdote is later given;

“In dissimilar circumstances, the New Brunswick Telegraph-Journal told us of an exclusive photograph posted on its site during the 2014 laid on inwards Moncton that left 3 members of the RCMP dead. The site maintains what is known every bit a “hard paywall,” making content available entirely to paid subscribers. As a result, it experienced a spike inwards registrations when give-and-take spread of its photo. Then the CBC copied the photograph

without permission, as well as the spike speedily subsided. What the CBC did is, inwards ane agency or another, mutual these days, as well as tin give the axe last argued to last permissible nether fair-dealing provisions.”

This recommendation is probable to spark much debate over its potential consequences for gratis speech, as well as whether narrowing the fair-dealing exception inwards relation to tidings would outcome inwards the desired economical improvement for the tidings publishing sector. This recommendation has already attracted criticism, as well as it volition last interesting to follow the parallel unfolding debates on this number across the European as well as Canadian jurisdictions.

European Copyright Society – Opinion on European Union Reform Package

On a brief as well as concluding note, the European Copyright Society published its Opinion on the European Union Reform Package on 25 Jan 2017.

The European Copyright Society provides a platform for “critical as well as independent scholarly thinking on European Copyright Law as well as policy. Its members are scholars as well as academics from diverse countries of Europe, seeking to articulate as well as promote their views of the overall world involvement on all topics inwards the land of authors rights, neighbouring rights as well as related matters.”

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