Dominic Young

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I’ve been around the news media and the internet since the beginning. I am interested in copyright as the basis for a thriving and balanced creative sector and society. Also interested in how the failure of copyright and other laws has led to terrible outcomes for the internet and everyone who uses it. I’ve done a lot of things around these issues.

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  • D-ERR. UK copyright owners no longer control the right to copy their work

    The UK abolished copyright today. At least, they abolished a large part of the “framework” which supports it by doing away with the requirement, in many cases, to have permission from the owner before you use someone’s work. Now, if you don’t know who the owner is, you don’t have to ask them.* The UK…

  • What is a “temporary copy” and who cares?

    An obscure and technical piece of copyright law has been stretched out of recognition by the aspirations of entrepreneurs. What is the “temporary copying exception” to copyright and what was it really supposed to do? I sometimes wonder whether the history we are taught would be recognised by the people who were actually there. Recently,…

  • The German solution for newspaper revenues: two cheers, two boos

    The German government is planning to introduce a new right for newspaper publishers to charge ISPs, search engines and aggregators for use of their stuff. Two cheers, I suppose, because newspapers need all the help they can get when it comes to making money online. They have been pushing for this for a long time…

  • Disruptors disrupted, part two (updated)

    The NLA and Meltwater multi-pronged litigation passed a new milestone today. To remind yourself of the last one, and to get a bit more background on the case, have a look at a post I did previously. This time the it was the copyright tribunal’s turn to issue a decision. Meltwater were quick to claim…