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The Open Rights Group has made its submission to the UK Intellectual Property Office on the proposed EU copyright term extension available on their website.

Danny O'Brien has an interesting essay on the confusions of attempting to monetize culture in a digital age in the same way we did it before the internet came along.

Well the EU has not been slow about following up on Charlie McCreevy's promise to extend the term of copyright in sound recordings. From Europa:

Well the EU has not been slow about following up on Charlie McCreevy's promise to extend the term of copyright in sound recordings. From Europa:

I've written a chapter for a book with James Dalziel and we are asked to sign a copyright form. Now, I usually just sign these, but I've been getting fussy about this stuff recently. So, I actually read this one, and when you analyse it, there are a number of really draconian measures in there. If you look at it rationally you think 'no-one would invent a system like this now'.