Intellectual property blog

Publication of state laws blocked: copyright vs. freedom of expression?

by Tom Cox on October 17, 2013

Credit to Howard Knopf (@howardknopf) for bringing this story to my attention. The relationship between copyright and freedom of expression is often overlooked. Yet these two legal spheres can interact at a delicate nexus. There is an inherent tension between copyright and free expression; a grant of copyright is also a grant to control a […]

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Copyright Hub Pilot Introduced in the UK

by Tom Cox on August 8, 2013

[New – see also the empirical observation our Founder Gav Ward helped to coin re Lemley’s Law here.] Ask yourself this question: if you find a photograph on the internet and want to reproduce it in your own creation what would you be required to do by law? It doesn’t have to be a photograph […]

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