Copyright Under Strain :: Laurence Kaye

COPYRIGHT UNDER STRAIN Digital Publishing Forum

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AGENDA The ‘Big Picture’ User-driven pressure for change Gower – where are we? Industry responses Publishers’ criteria for change Laurence Kaye Solicitors 23 November 2006

‘THE BIG PICTURE’ Period of disruptive change

International framework

Copyright remains central

Digital Publishing Industry

New business models within existing framework

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Passed ‘high watermark’ of protection

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User-driven pressure for change

COPYRIGHT LAW: User/Consumer pressure for change

Digital lock-up

Contract override

Copyright law is unbalanced

Copyright law according to search engines

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User-driven pressure for change

DIGITAL LOCK-UP Technical Protection Measures (“TPMs”) Override exceptions Deny access to ‘out of copyright’ materials Prevent use not restricted by copyright Prevent interoperability Laurence Kaye Solicitors 23 November 2006

User-driven pressure for change

‘CONTRACT OVERRIDE’

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User-driven pressure for change

COPYRIGHT LAW IS UNBALANCED?

• Private copying exception? • Exceptions in the digital world? • Academic research

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• Orphan works • Unpublished work •Term of sound recordings

Gower Review – where are we?

HUGH JONES ON GOWER

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EU PERSPECTIVE • Review of copyright Acquis • Collective licensing and levies • Term directive • 2010 and Digital Libraries Laurence Kaye Solicitors 23 November 2006

INDUSTRY RESPONSES Search engines and copyright ‘ACAP’ – an industry response User generated content: the buck stops?

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Industry responses

COPYRIGHT & SEARCH ENGINES  Inversion  Copie Presse etc.  ACAP

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Industry responses

http://www.the-acap.org/

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Industry responses

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Industry responses

USER-GENERATED CONTENT • “Universal sues MySpace” • US – the approach in Grokster • UK – “authorise”? (CBS v. Amstrad) • Impact of E-Commerce Directive ‘safe harbour’ • BCC Proposal

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PUBLISHERS’ CRITERIA FOR CHANGE

Perceived v actual

Remedies?

Correct method?

Changing IP Law? Market-based Solutions?

Laudable but?

Temporary?

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