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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  • How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Copy (via James Gannon’s IP Blog)

    I think this puts it very well… I was wrong. After years of reading intellectual property law blogs from some of the greatest legal minds, I’m finally ready to admit that I was wrong. The fight against illegal copying is one that cannot be won. I can no longer deny the simple truth that it…

  • How do we know copyright is working?

    I have spent a working lifetime sitting on one side of the copyright debate – broadly the “copyright is good” side. I have also, latterly, spent a lot of time listening to people telling me why I m wrong, why I am a dinosaur who can t let go of the past. Obviously I have spent…

  • Obstacles, obstacles

    The UK government is reviewing Intellectual Property at the moment. Ian Hargreaves, an academic and former newspaper editor, has been given the task of following in the footsteps of numerous recent reviews and consultations to yet again try to come up with a prescription of how to fix copyright. This task, as Prof Hargreaves probably…

  • Mish-mashing-up

    One of the things copyright is often accused of unfairly preventing, which in turn inhibits creativity and innovation, is so-called “transformative use”. That is, taking someone s work as the starting point for your own, and sufficiently changing it so that a new work is created. Currently, in the UK, this mostly still requires a…

  • Welcome to the Copyright Blog

    I planned this blog with an agenda to put the case for copyright, to bring a positive message about it to the sea of negativity and to explore what the future might hold with an open mind.  There are many voices loudly and frequently raised which rail against copyright. It inhibits entrepeneurialism. It locks knowledge…