Copyright: Past, present and future

Learned Publishing

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 113-119

  Williams, Alan ^a,b  

^a DLA Piper ^*

^b ULA Piper   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 34247467432     PISSN: 09531513     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1087/174148507X185072     Document Type: Article

References (30)

1. 1 Ric. 3, c 9 1483.
2. Born between 1415 and 1425 in Kent, he died in 1491.
3. Statute of Anne, 1710 (8 Anne, c 19).
4. Better known as 'Hogarth's Act'.
5. The Copyright Act 1911 (1911) c 46
6. The Copyright Act 1956 (1956) c 74
7. The Copyright, Designs and Patents Act 1988 (1988) c 48
8. I know that I have left out, inter alia: The Copyright Act, 1814; The International Copyright Acts 1838 and 1844; The Copyright Act 1842; and the Foreign Reprints Act 1847, all of which were passed in an attempt to protect British publishers' (and authors') interests. But this is not the definitive history of copyright law!
9. The Copyright Directive [2001/29/EC] on the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society.
10. Baigent and another v Random House Group Ltd, [2006] EWHC 719 (Ch). Now subject to appeal.
11. The Commission has recently been through a consultation process and appears to be prepared to leave database law as it is, for better or worse.
12. See above, note 9.
13. The full Report is available at: http://www.hmtreasury.gov.uk/media/583/ 91/pbr06_gowers_report_7 55.pdf
14. Arguably, this is a role that the collecting societies, such as the Copyright Licensing Agency, have now taken on, though the similarity ends there.
15. Amongst the obscure phrases you should not use in consumer contracts, now that the Office of Fair Trading is showing its regulatory teeth, are: 'consequential loss', 'force majeure', 'indemnity', 'jurisdiction', 'pro rata', 'severability', 'title', 'void' and 'we exclude all liability'.
16. 'Copyright and the Challenge of Technology', 1988.
17. 'Copyright and Related Rights in the Information Society', 1995.
18. WIPO Copyright Treaty, 1996 and WIPO Performances and Phonograms Treaty, 1996.
19. The Digital Millennium Copyright Act, 1998.
20. See above, note 9.
21. Flat taxes raised on the sales of hardware (such as photocopiers) or media (such as blank tapes).
22. See Charles Clark, The Answer to the Machine is in the Machine, in P Bernt Hugenholtr (ed.), The Future of Copyright in a Digital Environment, The Hague, Kluwer Law International, 1996.
23. Effectively, the right to copy without consent against payment of a set fee.
24. The special arrangements in English law which permit certain types of library to deliver copies to users without paying a copyright fee.
25. Laddie, H. 1996. Copyright - Over-Strength, Over-Regulated, Over-Rated?, European Intettectual Property Review, 18.
26. Radio Tekfis Eireann and Independent Television Publications Ltd (Intelkctual Property Owners Inc intervening) v EC Commission (Magill TV Guide Ltd intervening), Cases C-241/91-242/91P; BLD 0101950013; [1995] 4 CMLR 718.
27. See Commission Decisions of 22/111/2006 Case COMP/C-2/38.173 and IP/03/1748); and Commission Inquiry IP/04/134 into the sale of sports rights generally to Internet and 30 mobile operators.
28. That is, an obligation to give one party as good a deal as any other party has.
29. http://creativecommons.org/
30. Shakespeare, Hamlet. I know that I ought to give credit for the idea of using this quote in these circumstances but I cannot remember whose idea it was and I apologise to her now!