International Intellectual Property Law Updates

Ripped in the UK: UK Copyright Law includes a limited fair-use exception – known as “fair dealing.”  In 2014, the UKIPO announced a broadening of the exceptions to include private copying of your own copies (e.g., cd-ripping), quotations, and parody set to take effect in October 2014.  However, the High Court quashed the regulations prior to their taking effect — finding that the Government must should consider a compensation scheme for copyright holders whose works would be copied. As it must, the UKIPO is also falling in line, its spokesman is reported as saying: “It is now unlawful to make private copies of copyright works you own, without permission from the copyright holder – this includes format shifting from one medium to another.”   I don’t use iTunes, but this apparently means that the iTunes ripping function is illegal to use in the UK.

The Trans Pacific Partnership continues to be negotiated between the US and other pacific nations.  A recent version of the IP-related text has been published by Knowledge Ecology International (KEI) herehttp://keionline.org/tpp/11may2015-ip-text. For the most part, the agreement appears to be focused on ensuring that our pacific trading-partners offer US-style intellectual property rights. However, it is interesting to study the patent chapter and consider potential differences with U.S. law.  More from TechDirt.

 

 

 

13 thoughts on “International Intellectual Property Law Updates

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    How can they possibly police this? I don’t use iTunes (I think it may be the worst software ever made), except when I have to, but I do rip CDs to an electronic format. Also, supposedly iTunes can convert a large-format movie file into a small-format movie file (I was never able to get this to work, though). That technically is making a different copy, so I guess that’s illegal, too. You can also burn a CD using downloaded songs and iTunes. That’s also illegal now.

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        Given that not all music on CDs is copyrighted (therefore nothing inherently “illegal” about iTunes ripping function), a better bet would be to find UK citizens uploading copyrighted material to YouTube and go after them for those “copies”.

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        Sounds fine in theory, but the damages are going to be tough to determine (though I don’t enough about UK law to determine what they’d be or even how they’d be determined). Also, could Apple simply disable those features? Or would that require disabling them in all versions of their program, including those not in the UK?

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          Please, please, please, please STOP the subscriptions!!! Or change the default to be “do not subscribe”.

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            Another solution, PB, is to enter a different email address when you submit comments so the “replies” go there. I’ll leave it to your discretion as to what your new email address should be. 😉

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      PB, I saw some skits on Saturday Night Live where the copyright police conducted raids where grandmas and kids were rousted, made to stand against the wall and frisked.

      Funny, but not really.

      But how did they know about the illegal copying? I assume the authorities will insist on some sort of monitoring of the use of software like iTunes so that it rats on you.

      But the Brits come from Europe, a land that brought us the Gestapo, the NKVD, the Stasi. They are use to a lack of privacy and the employment of secret police.

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    Actual conversation in my office ten minutes ago:

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    : O “I know I just lost all credibility with you. You’ll have my resignation tomorrow.”

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      Lol. It deleted the line

      we both read the phrase “More from Techdirt.” between the two quotes!

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