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PRS for Music launches consultation to reduce licence fees for amateur sports clubs

2 February 2012 | Simon Weinberg

PRS for Music, an organisation which collects and pays royalties to its members for the exploitation of their musical works, has launched a consultation into the licence fees it charges amateur sports...

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Licensing Act consultation underway

19 September 2011 | Simon Weinberg

The Department for Culture, Media and Sport has opened a consultation on proposals to remove the requirement to obtain a licence for specific types of ‘regulated entertainment’, as defined in the Licensing...

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Court of Appeal rules end-users need licence to access online news service – Newspaper Licensing Agency v Meltwater Holding, Court of Appeal

4 August 2011 | Mark Weston

The Newspaper Licensing Agency (NLA) manages the intellectual property rights of its members (generally publishers of national newspapers) by licensing newspaper content and collecting licence fees. Meltwater...

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Campaign launched to prevent copyright infringement

8 July 2011 | Simon Weinberg

Creative Commons, a copyright group, has published a guide to help web users identify what pictures, music and videos they can post online without infringing copyright and risking enforcement action from...

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Nokia infringing 3G patent, but does it matter? – Nokia v IPCom, High Court

1 July 2011 | Simon Weinberg

The High Court has ruled that certain unspecified 3G Nokia phones infringe a patent registered by IPCom, the German company. The patent, which allows emergency and security services to get prioritised...

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Hargreaves Digital Opportunity Report of intellectual property published

6 June 2011 | Mark Weston

Professor Ian Hargreaves has published his report on intellectual property rights that had been commissioned by David Cameron in November last year. His report makes ten recommendations, which include...

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Newspaper prevented from selling back copy editions online due to one photographer’s copyright – MGN v Grisbrook, Court of Appeal

16 December 2010 | Mark Weston

Alan Grisbrook, a freelance photographer, supplied photographs to Mirror Group Newspapers for many years. There was no written contract between them. There was therefore an implied licence for the newspaper...

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Newspaper monitoring service users must pay licence fee to newspapers collecting agency to receive service – NLA v Meltwater, High Court

2 December 2010 | Paul Gershlick

Meltwater provided an online service whereby it created newspaper monitoring reports for customers. The reports contained the headline, opening text and extract from the articles. Meltwater told customers...

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Automatic reversion of copyright upon material breach acceptable – Crosstown v Rive Droite Music, Court of Appeal

17 November 2010 | Mark Weston

Two songwriters had assigned their copyright to RDM, which had in turn assigned its copyright to C. The assignment to RDM was of the copyright in the songs in the UK and only for 25 years, after which...

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European Commission looks to make it easier to use intellectual property

15 November 2010 | Paul Gershlick

The European Commission is currently looking into ways in which it will be easier to use people’s intellectual property rights. The first aspect of this is investigating the ways in which businesses...

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Latest news and views tagged licence

PRS for Music launches consultation to reduce licence fees for amateur sports clubs

Licensing Act consultation underway

Court of Appeal rules end-users need licence to access online news service – Newspaper Licensing Agency v Meltwater Holding, Court of Appeal

Campaign launched to prevent copyright infringement

Nokia infringing 3G patent, but does it matter? – Nokia v IPCom, High Court

Hargreaves Digital Opportunity Report of intellectual property published

Newspaper prevented from selling back copy editions online due to one photographer’s copyright – MGN v Grisbrook, Court of Appeal

Newspaper monitoring service users must pay licence fee to newspapers collecting agency to receive service – NLA v Meltwater, High Court

Automatic reversion of copyright upon material breach acceptable – Crosstown v Rive Droite Music, Court of Appeal

European Commission looks to make it easier to use intellectual property

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