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Some recent podcasts on regulating (the) Meta(verse) and understanding copyright

8 November, 2021
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Headphones and podcastI did a few podcasts recently. First, I chatted with the Irish Independent‘s Adrian Weckler on his Big Tech Show:

What is Facebook’s new metaverse?

Will we all switch over to a new, more integrated virtual reality to socialise, play, work and shop? That’s what Mark Zuckerberg thinks is going to happen. He and Facebook are now about to start building this ‘metaverse’, partly in Ireland.

How will it benefit our lives? How might it hurt our lives? To dig deeper into what the metaverse will and won’t be, Adrian is joined by Bloomberg’s technology editor Nate Lanxon and TCD professor Eoin O’Dell. The panel take a look at how the metaverse will work and what the privacy and regulatory implications might be.

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A little time later, I looked at the possible regulatory consequences of France Haugen‘s revelations about Facebook with Jess Kelly on Newstalk’s Tech Talk podcast:

Facebook is Meta …

Jess looks at the rebrand of Facebook to Meta. Dr Eoin O’Dell discusses upcoming legislation and Emmet Ryan explains what impact it will have on the issues facing the company. …

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Finally, on a completely different note, I chatted with the Irish Times journalist Karlin Lillington about all things copyright on the fantastic Walled Culture podcast:

The copyright creation myth, a permission-based society, and EU vs US copyright law

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Happy Bloomsday 2021!

16 June, 202116 June, 2021
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Dust jacket of Gabler (ed) Joyce Ulysses via James Joyce centre website0. Prolegomenon, or Why me?
Today is Bloomsday, the centrepiece of a five-day festival in Dublin and online celebrating the day in 1904 on which the events of James Joyce’s novel Ulysses unfold, which is the day Joyce first formally went out with Nora Barnacle. Their story is brilliantly told in the best book I’ve read this year, Nuala O’Connor‘s Nora: A Love Story of Nora Barnacle and James Joyce (New Island Books, 2021).

Several years ago, I wrote a post about Bloomsday for a blawg carnival called Blawg Review; sadly, the review is now defunct; but I thought I might revisit and update the post. Just like Oh Brother, Where art Thou?, the novel loosely parallels Homer’s Odyssey, and the original blogpost very very loosely paralleled Joyce’s Ulysses (or at least his chapter headings), to introduce some interesting contemporary legal stories. I will keep the sub-Joycean introductions, to introduce some current legal stories, and I have fixed broken links in the text that I have retained.…

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Reputation as Property

31 August, 2018
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This is a call for papers for a conference on Reputation as Property: Perspectives from Tort and Property, to be held on 18-19 January 2019 in Trinity College Dublin:

Reputation on PropertyHow can tort law account for the harm of defamation? One answer to this question is to argue that our reputation is or is like property. While this analogy may make sense to tort law theorists, particularly those seeking to give an internal account of tort law, it may not make sense to property theorists. In addition, it is not clear whether this approach fits with the case law. Whether or not thinking about reputation as property makes sense raises the question of whether tort law theory understands property differently than property theory does. It also raises the question of whether the theory of the tort of defamation fits the case law. In what ways does it make sense to think about reputation as property, and in what ways does it not?

In this workshop, organised in association with the Private Law Group at Trinity College Dublin, we seek to bring together property and torts scholars to discuss both theoretical and doctrinal approaches to the question of whether reputation is property or not.

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Compensation for breach of the General Data Protection Regulation

22 August, 2017
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| GDPR, General, Privacy

I have just posted a paper on SSRN entitled “Compensation for breach of the General Data Protection Regulation”; this is the abstract:

Article 82(1) of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) provides that any “person who has suffered material or non-material damage as a result of an infringement of this Regulation shall have the right to receive compensation from the controller or processor for the damage suffered”. As a consequence, compliance with the GDPR is ensured through a mutually reinforcing combination of public and private enforcement that blends public fines with private damages.

After the introduction, the second part of this article compares and contrasts Article 82(1) GDPR with compensation provisions in other EU Regulations and Directives and with the caselaw of the CJEU on those provisions, and compares and contrasts the English version of Article 82(1) GDPR with the versions of that Article in the other official languages of the EU, and concludes that at least 5 of the versions of Article 82(1) GDPR are unnecessarily ambiguous, though the CJEU (eventually, if and when it is asked) is likely to afford it a consistent broad interpretation. However, the safest course of action at this stage is to provide expressly for a claim for compensation in national law.

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Implications of Brexit, North and South

1 March, 20179 May, 2017
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| Conferences, Lectures, Papers and Workshops, General

Ire,UK,EuThe Irish Council for Civil Liberties (ICCL) seminar on the Constitutional and Human Rights Implications of BREXIT, North and South this evening at 5:00pm in the Distillery Building, Church Street, Dublin 7 (map via here). It’s something I’ve blogged about here, here, here and here. Since then, the UK Supreme Court has handed down its judgment in R (on the application of Miller) v Secretary of State for Exiting the European Union [2017] UKSC 5 (24 January 2017). I wrote an OpEd on the case in the Irish Times the following day. …

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Today is World Intellectual Property Day

26 April, 2016
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| General, Intellectual property

WIPO IP days posterEvery April 26, the World Intellectual Property Organisation (WIPO) celebrates World Intellectual Property Day to learn about the role that intellectual property rights play in encouraging innovation and creativity:

This year, we are exploring the future of culture in the digital age: how we create it, how we access it, how we finance it. We will look into how a balanced and flexible intellectual property system helps ensure that those working in the creative sector and artists themselves are properly paid for their work, so they can keep creating.

To mark the day, Adapt Centre in Trinity is hosting an event on Technology, Freedom and Privacy in the 21st Century.

Intellectual property (IP) refers to creations of the mind for which the law affords exclusive protection. This legal protection can be provided by legislation (as in the case of patents, copyright, trademarks, and design rights) or at common law (as in the case of passing off, or the protection of trade secrets and other confidential information). Patents [main Irish Act here] largely protect inventions, and the ongoing disputes in courts all over the world between Apple and Samsung illustrate the centrality of patents to modern businesses. They are so important, in fact, that section 32 of the Finance Act 2015 (the 2015 Budget) a patent box, a special tax regime for IP revenues, to encourage research and development, innovation and invention.…

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David Bowie – Memory Of A Free Festival

11 January, 201614 January, 2016
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… We touched the very soul
Of holding each and every life
We claimed the very source of joy ran through
It didn’t, but it seemed that way …

Bonus links for lawyers: For a brief period in 1968, as a day job while he was still David Jones, Bowie was a paralegal – essentially making photocopies – based near Lincoln’s Inn in London, at the litigation support (and now ediscovery) bureau Legastat.…

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March, that month of wind and taxes

25 March, 201326 March, 2013
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Homer Simpson and Ogden NashIndoors or out, no one relaxes
In March, that month of wind and taxes,
The wind will presently disappear,
The taxes last us all the year.

“Thar She Blows“, from Versus (1949) by Ogden Nash



In England, Lady Day – the Feast of the Annunciation of the Blessed Virgin Mary on 25 March – was the traditional New Year’s Day. Taxes for the year, due at the end of the year, were therefore due on 24 March. In 1752, when Chesterfield’s Act, 1750 (facsimile here) moved England from the Julian Calendar to the Gregorian Calendar (170 years after it had been promulgated), 1 January became New Year’s Day. At that stage, the two calendars differed by 11 days, so Wednesday 2 September 1752 was followed by Thursday 14 September 1752. However, although the calendar year moved, by virtue of section 6 of the Act, the tax year did not; and, as a consequence:

from 1753 until 1799, the tax year in Britain continued to operate on the Julian calendar and began on 5 April, which was the “old style” new tax year of 25 March. A 12th skipped Julian leap day in 1800 changed its start to 6 April.

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