‘The commons refers to natural and cultural resources that are shared by a community of commoners’ (Wittel, 2013). With the beginning of digital era, commons have revived in the form of digital ones presented by ‘the results of social production necessary for social interaction and further production, such as knowledges, languages, codes, information, affects, and[…]
Brexit has caused excitement not only in the hearts of population but also became the reason for the lively discussions of the UK IP perspectives. However, there are still no clear forecasts about the effect of this event on both UK law and the professional lives of rightholders, practitioners, academics, and artists. Brexit – (Prowle,[…]
On April 18, 2016 the US Supreme Court declined an appeal from the Authors Guild that accused Google of copyright infringement for scanning their books (Kravets, 2016). Despite the decision of the US top court was made in favour of Google, there are still acute debates about its correctness and the correct interpretation of ‘fair[…]
There is nothing to do with piracy. After multiple unsuccessful attempts to fight with this phenomenon by calling infringers for the law-abiding, companies have turned to Digital Right Management (DRM) that slightly ‘slow pirates and annoys paying customers’ (Bellamy, 2012). Taking into account that DRM doesn’t work, it also significantly limits turns any technology into[…]
Taking into account that the last major change to copyright legislation took place in 1980s – the era of the Betamax and personal cassette recorder – and now almost all the data is created and stored in a digital form, copyright definitely needs modernisation (White, 2012). Most of the copyright laws are considered to be[…]
It can be said without a doubt that currently the boundary between a digital media consumer and producer is gradually vanishing. Due to the development of Web 2.0 and the increasing accessibility of advanced technologies like mobile phones, digital cameras, WYSIWYG editors more and more people are leaving the position of a passive spectator and becoming digital authors. […]