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Copyright Blog | Debates and ideas about copyright and media.
3y ago
Have you heard about the latest exciting European shenanigans? There’s a new Copyright Directive on the way, and boy has it stirred up some passions. There’s an absolutely massive campaign going on to stop it, and air around Brussels is thick with accusations and recriminations. Their arguments are impassioned, although anyone who takes the time ..read more
Copyright Blog | Debates and ideas about copyright and media.
3y ago
“Netflix for News”. That’s a phrase I’ve started hearing in the last month. It refers to an idea about how to save the news industry. I think most people who say it are suggesting a single subscription which users would pay, but which would give them access a wide range of news sites – a ..read more
Copyright Blog | Debates and ideas about copyright and media.
3y ago
As some people will notice, my flurries of activity on this blog and elsewhere are somewhat random. I am deeply passionate about the issues around copyright, because they impinge so heavily on so many other things – economic, cultural, political, personal. One of the reasons I have written about it is to try to explain ..read more
Copyright Blog | Debates and ideas about copyright and media.
3y ago
How to save the media and transform the internet, part one ..read more
Copyright Blog | Debates and ideas about copyright and media.
3y ago
Ah hello hello hello. Long time no, um, blog. I’ve been busy going back to first principles and working out how we can adapt to a world in which the failure of copyright seems to be collapsing the media ever more quickly. I’m still obsessive about copyright, of course, but I have begun to wonder ..read more
Copyright Blog | Debates and ideas about copyright and media.
3y ago
Tim Berners Lee issued an epistle recently, a call to action to save the web from some dangers which concern him. One of them “misinformation” (or “fake news” as it rather more commonly and hysterically known). It’s a problem, he says. Everyone says it, and they’re right. Tim doesn’t identify the solution but he does ..read more
Copyright Blog | Debates and ideas about copyright and media.
3y ago
When is a link not a link? When someone posts a link on Facebook, the first thing that Facebook does it make a little abstract of the page they’re linking to and post it underneath. The headline, a picture or logo, a little bit of text. Takes a second or two to appear. Very handy ..read more
Copyright Blog | Debates and ideas about copyright and media.
3y ago
I’ve been hearing this phrase “the free flow of information” a lot lately. It’s been in the context of the “Publishers Right” and it is usually preceded by the phrase “will restrict”. The heart of the concern seems to be the idea that if permission is needed before digital publications can be exploited by others ..read more
Copyright Blog | Debates and ideas about copyright and media.
3y ago
Were newspapers wrong to go digital? asks Roy Greenslade, reporting on some very interesting research from the USA. He points out that many, if not most, newspapers could be more profitable if they closed their websites and just focused on print instead. I don’t think the mistake was going digital, unless any newspaper had obsolescence ..read more
Copyright Blog | Debates and ideas about copyright and media.
3y ago
As you may know, I stepped down from The Copyright Hub earlier this year, two-and-a-half years into my planned one year tenure. The Hub is a fantastic, exhilarating, project which stands to create massive and positive change for creators. That is why it has attracted the wide-ranging support from an enormously diverse group of people, organisations ..read more