What’s the word for hibernating in summer? And winter? And then summer again? That’s what the blog has been doing while I have been distracted. So I have been seeing issues and debates flying by and left them unremarked on (by me) partly because it’s busy work, this Copyright Hub thing, and partly because I…

I have just spent a day with people talking about the future of the media. In amongst the usual presentation, panels, Q&As and watery coffee they have been hosting brief talks by interesting innovators in the media sector in Europe. They were mostly perfectly nice ideas, plausible and well explained. But perhaps I have been…

Quite a moderate view from Eric Schmidt, in response to the proposal that German newspaper publishers get a revenue stream from companies which aggregate their content online. The full quote is quite telling, though… “I fear that such a regulation would slow down the development of the Internet because it creates additional costs and leads…

Rob Levine has written a review of William Patry’s book “How to fix copyright”. Which you should read. And when you do, you must not neglect to flip over to the comments where Mr Patry has been holding forth in somewhat splenetic style. Marvellous.

Mark Bide is the Project Director of the Linked Content Coalition, about which you will hopefully soon hearing more. Posted below are some remarks he made to The Intellectual Property Lawyers Organisation It is hardly a secret that, in the era of the internet, it is increasingly difficult to maintain successful businesses which are dependent…

I won’t try to summarise, just head on over to Terry Hart’s blog and look for yourself (be sure to read the comments). A bunch of big brains bumping up against each other. And have a squizz at Robert Levine’s take on it too. He’s not particularly polite about all the big brains…

There are lots of people out there who would like less copyright, and plenty of people benefiting hugely from the fact that it doesn’t work well online. There are others out there who wish it would work better and are coming up with ways that can happen (I’m one of them). And there’s another whole…

The NLA won its appeal today. (Disclosure: I was on the board of the NLA when this action began and I am a previous chairman). To judge from some of the coverage you would think this is the end of the web as we know it. There is an attempt to portray the ruling as…