Category: Copyright

Modernising Copyright: The Report of the Copyright Review Committee #CRC13

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| CRC12 / CRC13

CRC_Report_Cover_ThumbnailToday in the Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Minister Bruton and Minister Sherlock launched Modernising Copyright, the Report of the Copyright Review Committee (pdfs: via this site; via the DJEI site [link updated 18 November 2015]) (see barnold law | Business & Leadership | Damien Mulley| DJEI Press Release here and here | Irish Times | infojustice.org | Irish Independent | Technology.ie | The 1709 Blog | TheJournal.ie).

Copyright reform is in the air, in Australia, Canada, Germany, India (pdf), the EU (here, here, here (pdf), and here), the UK, and the US (here (pdf) and here). As part of this process, the Copyright Review Committee (the Committee) was established on 9 May 2011 by the Minister for Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Mr Richard Bruton (TD). It consisted of Dr Eoin O’Dell (Trinity College Dublin), Patricia McGovern (DFMG Solicitors, Dublin), and Professor Steve Hedley (University College Cork), and it was tasked with proposing solutions for areas of current copyright law that create barriers to innovation.

The Committee established a website for the process, held a public meeting on 4 July 2011, received over 100 written submissions, and published a Consultation Paper on 29 February 2012.…

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Felonius Monk and the Right to Copy

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| Columba, Copyright, Libraries

Saint Columba, on a stained glass window in Iona Abbey, via WikipediaToday is the feast day of St Columba (in Irish, variously: Colamcille, Columcille, Colm Cille etc).

To mark the occasion, I present a(n in)famous episode (pdfs here and here; image here, purchase here) in his life, retold – under the above title – by my Trinity colleague Dr Eoin O’Neill, who says that his tale below is most effectively delivered in the accents of Chicago of the 1930s, as interpreted by Hollywood:

The Monks had a corner on the market

In the early days of the monastic age in Ireland, (it only lasted for ~1,000 years),
the faithful were attracted to regional monasteries by various marketing techniques such as the sight of rare and sacred objects eg finely worked gold vessels and rare books.

Rivalry between monasteries was rife, and when the renowned monk Colamcille (a scion of the house of Uí Néill, the ruling dynasty) went to visit the abbot Finian at his monastery (possibly Moville or Clonard), he noted that Finian had a fine book in the scriptorium, (a copy of the Psalms: the recording media used normally was the skin of a calf). Finian had diligently procured this copy abroad through his network, no small feat in the early part of the sixth century, given the firewalls that were then in vogue.…

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Copyright, Technology and Education

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| Copyright, CRC12 / CRC13, Universities

ILTA logoAnd so to Cork, for the Irish Learning Technology Association‘s 14th annual education technology conference on the theme of “Opening up Education – Content, Learning and Collaboration”. I will be talking this afternoon on “Copyright, Technology and Education”. Given the topic of the conference, my focus is on whether copyright reform can open up education, facilitate greater access to content, and encourage collaboration in learning and teaching. The context of this talk is the Copyright Review Committee Consultation Paper (you can download a pdf of the Paper here (via DJEI) or here (from this site); and summaries of each of the chapters are linked from this page), which made many recommendations relating to education, including adding “education” to the “teaching and research” exceptions, making thorough provision for reproductions for persons with a disability, and extending copyright deposit to digital works. Here are my slides (pdf); there is a live-stream here; and I’ll put a link here to the video in due course.…

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Public domain and copyright terms

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| Copyright, James Joyce

A little late for Public Domain Day (blogged here last year – and the issues there are updated here), here’s a list of written, artistic, and musical works which have now entered the public domain; and here’s a map of countries’ standard copyright terms, (created by Balfour Smith, Program Coordinator of the Center for the Study of the Public Domain, Duke University School of Law):


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Limited extension of time for #CRC12 submissions

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| Copyright, CRC12 / CRC13, Fair use

#CRC12logosmallThe Copyright Review Committee has announced a limited extension of time for submissions. There has been a good response to the Committee’s wide-ranging Consultation Paper (you can download a pdf of the Paper here (via DJEI) or here (from this site); and summaries of each of the chapters are linked from this page).

However, although the date for submissions has already been extended from Friday 13 April 2012 to Thursday 31 May 2012, there have been many further requests for another extension. The Committee has therefore decided to extend the closing date to close of business on Friday 29 June 2012, in the following two limited circumstances only:

  • first, parties who intend to make a submission to the Committee, but who feel that they cannot do so before the existing deadline of close of business Thursday 31 May 2012, should apply to the Committee before that date for an extension until close of business on Friday 29 June 2012. The Committee will consider such requests on a case-by-case basis.
  • second, the Committee will soon publish on their website – probably here – every submission that will have been received by the current deadline of 31 May 2012, and the Committee will accept responses to those submissions until close of business on Friday 29 June 2012.
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#CRC12 – Copyright Review Committee public meeting, this Sat, 10am, TCD

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| Copyright, CRC12 / CRC13

Daithi O Ceallaigh, via IIEA siteDáithí O’Ceallaigh, Director General of the Institute of International and European Affairs and Chairman of the Press Council of Ireland (pictured left) will chair the public meeting of the Copyright Review Committee on Saturday, 24 March 2012, from 10:00am until 12:00 noon, in the Robert Emmet Lecture Theatre, Room 2037 Arts Block (map here), Trinity College Dublin. The meeting will be divided into eight 15-minute question-and-answer segments, covering (i) the proposed Copyright Council; (ii) rights-holders; collecting societies; (iv) intermediaries; (v) users; (vi) entrepreneurs; (vii) heritage institutions; and (viii) fair use. Attendance is free and open to anyone interested in the work of the Committee, but registration is necessary.To register, you can

  • email the Review,
  • write to Copyright Review, Room 517, Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation, Kildare Street, Dublin 2, or
  • complete the Committee’s online questionnaire and answer the last question by confirming that you wish to attend the meeting.

I look forward to seeing you there!

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#CRC12 Paper: The questions

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| Copyright, CRC12 / CRC13, Fair use, General

#CRC12logosmallAt the end of each of its chapters, the Copyright Review Committee‘s Consultation Paper poses questions based on the analysis in the relevant chapter on which further responses are sought (update: you can download a pdf of the Paper here (via DJEI) or here (from this site)). The questions are presented here by chapter. If you want the questions based on a particular chapter, click on the “questions” link after the chapter name immediately below. If you want the full list, just keep reading this post.

  • Chapter 2 – The Intersection of Innovation and Copyright in the Submissions (questions)
  • Chapter 3 – Copyright Council of Ireland (questions)
  • Chapter 4 – Rights-holders (questions)
  • Chapter 5 – Collecting Societies (questions)
  • Chapter 6 – Intermediaries (questions)
  • Chapter 7 – Users (questions)
  • Chapter 8 – Entrepreneurs (questions)
  • Chapter 9 – Heritage institutions (questions)
  • Chapter 10 – Fair Use (questions)
  • Final questions in the Paper (questions)
  • Additional questions in the online questionnaire (questions)
  • How to make a submission.
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#CRC12 – Three Updates

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| Conferences, Lectures, Papers and Workshops, Copyright, CRC12 / CRC13

#CRC12logosmall As the title of the post says, this post has three updates about the work of the Copyright Review Committee. First, following a large number of requests for an extension of time to reply to the Committee’s Consultation Paper, the Committee has decided to extend the deadline for receipt of submissions to 5.00pm on Thursday 31 May 2012 (update: you can download a pdf of the Paper here (via DJEI) or here (from this site)). Second, the text to three of the questions on the first page of the Committee’s online questionnaire has been updated to confirm that certain information provided by respondents (such as postal address, email address, and website) will not be published.

Daithi O Ceallaigh, via IIEA siteThird, the Committee is delighted that Mr Dáithí O’Ceallaigh, Director General of the Institute of International and European Affairs and Chairman of the Press Council of Ireland, has agreed to chair the public meeting on the Paper. Mr O’Ceallaigh joined the Department of Foreign Affairs in 1973. He went on to assume posts in Moscow, London, Belfast and New York, before serving as Ambassador to Finland and Estonia (1993-1998), Ambassador to the United Kingdom (2001-2007), and Ambassador to the United Nations in Geneva (2007-2009), as well as the World Trade Organisation and the Conference on Disarmament in Geneva.…

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