Lydiate, Henry

Art Monthly; (274) Mar 2004, pp.45

Summarizes various changes made to copyright law that took effect in Britain on 31 Oct. 2003. The author appreciates new changes in the law, including strictures on a piece of reportage to qualify as a "permitted act", strictures on where photographs of broadcasts may be taken, the illegality of circumventing protection measures within works including software, rights of legal power for non-exclusive copyright licensees, and the implications of the latter for bargaining and negotiations. He concludes by summarizing provisional measures instituted to assist in the transition to the new copyright laws and stressing that many agreements reached before 31 Oct. 2003 will proceed under the old version of the law.

Lydiate, Henry

Art Monthly; (273) Feb 2004, pp.45

The first of two articles discussing changes introduced to British copyright law on 31 Oct. 2003, focusing on how it relates to artistic creation. The author notes that the new legislation served to help regularize copyright law throughout the European Union, outlines the existing copyright law dating from 1988, and reports on the introduction of the new right extended to copyright owners to control the communication of their work by `electronic transmission. He explains the ambiguityof the former right to `issue copies of the copyrighted work with regard to the Internet, comments on the inclusion of permission to transmit copyrighted material by Internet service providers without copyright infringement, and considers the amendment of the former notion of `fair dealing in relation to the use of copyrighted material in project research. He contrasts the new legislations provisions regarding commercial and non-commercial research, and concludes by highlighting the use of the same distinction in the matter of the use of copyrighted material in education.

Economist; 370 (8361) 7 Feb 2004, pp.63-64

Hollywood now earns more money from home entertainment than from the showing of films in cinemas. Yet the more addicted to DVD that Hollywood becomes, the more painfully it will suffer if piracy gets a grip.

Owen, Lynette

Bookseller; (5113) 30 Jan 2004, pp.26

UK publishers have access to all sorts of sales data, but do not knowthe value or volume of the industry's rights business. In the first of an issue-led series by experts in their field, the copyright director of Pearson Education argues for comprehensive and reliable data on intellectual property sales. (Original abstract - amended)

Lydiate, Henry

Art Monthly; (271) Nov 2003, pp.41

Discusses legal issues concerning collaborative art projects. The author examines two or more artists working together, the use of studio assistants, and considers the questions of authorship and copyright. Among artists and partnerships referred to are: the Boyle family, Gilbert and George, Langlands and Bell, Boyd and Evans, Louise and Jane Wilson, Ian Forsyth and Jane Pollard, Jake and Dinos Chapman, Marcel Duchamp, Jacqueline Monnier, Joseph Cornell, Andy Warhol, Gerard Malanga, Paul Morrissey, Henry Moore, Anthony Caro, Michael Craig-Martin, JulianOpie, Liam Gillick, Damien Hirst, and Rachel Howard.

Jones, Hugh

Bookseller; (5100) 24 Oct 2003, pp.26

The UK (finally) updates it law to comply with the EU's 2001 Copyright Directive. The changes are far reaching, designed to harmonise and upgrade UK copyright law for the digital age. Details the changes, and why they are important. (Quotes from original text)

Larsen, Peter Thal; Morrison, Scott

Financial Times; 12 Sep 2003, pp.23

Full page analysis article on intellectual property issues in Hollywood. Illegal online file sharing has savaged the music business. With broadband connections becoming widely available, studios know they mustact quickly if they are not to be the next victims. (Original abstract - amended)

Lydiate, Henry

Art Monthly; (268) Jul 2003-Aug 2003, pp.53

On the occasion of the Creative Business Forum conference held at theCommonwealth Centre in London (May 2003), discusses the limits and needs of creative industries in Britain. The author considers the growthof creative industries in Britain in recent years, examines the limitations that prevent creative industries from increasing their annual revenues, and highlights some of the speakers at the conference. He focuses on five issues and recommendations discussed at the conference, namely the need to find sponsors for creative projects, the need to support creative skills and curricula in educational institutions, the importance of brands for the creator and the consumer, the relevance of broadband Internet access to produce and distribute rapidly, and the need to reconsider intellectual property rights legislation. He concludes by highlighting ways to support creative industries.

Poynder, Richard

Information Today; 20 (6) Jun 2003, pp.33-34, 36

2nd of 2 articles. Examines some of the initiatives aimed at protecting and reclaiming the "digital commons". Addresses concerns that aggressive use of intellectual property, most notably copyright and patents, threatens to "enclose" the open nature of the Internet and therefore privatize it by stealth. Critics argue that today's overgenerous patent system will enable opportunistic companies to appropriate the Web's infrastructure and transform the Internet's free and open platform into a proprietary network. Furthermore, ever more powerful copyright laws, coupled with copy protection tools and industry consolidation, will enable a small group of media and information companies to exert increasingly monopolistic control over digital content.

Poynder, R

Information Today; 20 (5) May 2003, p.37-8

1st of 2 articles. Quotes a number of sources showing that there is growing concern that aggressive use of intellectual property rights is threatening the development of the Internet. Many are drawing parallels to the enclosures in pre-industrial Europe when commonly held land was taken into private ownership, leading to considerable abuse. Controversial Internet related patents include the Amazon.com 1-Click patent, the Web based shopping cart patent now owned by divine, the GIF file algorithm patent held by Unisys, the patent thatBritish Telecommunications (BT) claimed gave it ownership of the hyperlink, and the SBC patent for a widely used Web navigation technique.

Baverstock, A

Bookseller; (5076) 9 May 2003, p.10

Universities want a share of academics' royalties, while publishers must defend their own positions. Reports from a conference on intellectual property rights.

Lawton, G

New Scientist. Vol. 173, no. 2328, pp. 34-7. 2 Feb. 2002

The debate over 'open source' movement began as a technical debate over the best way to debug computer programs and is now developing into a political battle over the ownership of knowledge and how it is used. The debate is between those who believe in the free circulation of ideas and those who prefer to designate them 'intellectual property'. With open source, the full details of an invention or innovation is provided free of charge to anyone who is interested. The open source movement originated in 1984 when computer scientist Richard Stallman set up the Free Software Foundation to create high-quality software that was freely available to everybody. Currently, the movement is best exemplified by Linux, an operating system created by Finnish student Linus Torvalds in the early 1990s and installed on around 18 million computers worldwide. The General Public License, or 'copyleft', is a legal instrument created to cover open source software and maintain some sort of order. (Abstract quotes from original text)

Gasaway, L

Information Outlook; 6 (1) Jan 2002, p.40

Deals with the first sale doctrine portion of the US Copyright Office's Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) Section 104 Report of Aug 2001. Explains the doctrine and notes the disappointment felt by librarians that the report's analysis fails to recognise the role first sale doctrine plays in promoting the purposes of US copyright law. Also notes that transmissions over the Internet, which produce a copy on the recipient's computer, is a copy to which the doctrine does not apply.

Owen, L

Bookseller; (4969) 6 Apr 2001, p.28-9

The past decade has witnessed changes in technological communication that have challenged the publishing industry with both threats and opportunities. Inevitably these changes have had an impact on rights trading. As an inevitable consequence of the new technologies - and in particular of the all-pervasive influence of the Internet - the question of whether or not copyright still provides an adequate framework for the protection of intellectual property has been the topic of much debate. Rarely has copyright received such attention at international, national government and industry levels. (Quotes from original text)

Kaser, R T

D-Lib Magazine; 6 (5) May 2000, No page numbers

The full text of this electronic journal article can be found at [URL:http://www.dlib.org/dlib/may00/kaser/05kaser.html]. Examines the idea of 'free information' and the various ways in which the community of information users perceive information as being free. Notes that users expect to borrow books from libraries but also expect to pay to own books, suggesting that, as a society, users pay for the medium and not the message and perceive that the value resides in the copy, not in the content; which is expected to be free to be used and reused. Discusses the common attitudes to fair use and copyright and concludes that 'free information' is a cultural perception, an illusion and a figment of society's collective imagination. Notes the challenges facing abstracting and indexing services (AandIs) on the World Wide Web, where the thought and cost invested in making these value added services frequently goes unappreciated.

McTaggart, M

Computer Weekly , pp. 35. 2 Mar. 2000

Intellectual property rights (IPR), the catch-all term that covers copyright, moral rights, patents, design rights and trademarks, is an area prone to considerable confusion and misunderstanding. The rapid growth of global Internet trading has made the area even more complex while underlining the considerable value of these invisible assets to the companies that own them. (Abstract quotes from original text)

Kleiner, K

New Scientist. Vol. 164, no. 2208, pp. 22-3. 16 Oct. 1999

Eighteen months ago the main threat to the Internet's explosive growth appeared to be the prospect of government intervention. These days it could come from private enterprise as companies battle each other to protect what they claim is their intellectual property. Many of these claims are fair, others merely foolish. But all of them make business on the Internet that much harder, and a few could make it difficult for the Internet to operate at all. (Quotes from original text)

Duggan, Fiona

Assignation; 21 (2) Jan 2004, pp.35-38

The Plagiarism Advisory Service was established in September 2002 to provide generic advice and guidance on all aspects of plagiarism prevention and detection to institutions, academics and students in the UK via the service Web site [URL:http://www.jiscpas.ac.uk]. The service, which is fully funded by the Joint Information Systems Committee (JISC), is based in the Information Management Research Institute (IMRI), Northumbria University, UK. The service addresses the crisis in higher education whereby plagiarism has become much easier due to the massive amount of information available on the Internet and the ease with which it can be accessed and downloaded. The Plagiarism Advisory Service, which hosts the separately funded JISC Plagiarism Detection Service (PDS), promotes the adoption of an holistic approach to the problem, whereby electronic plagiarism detection tools are only one element of a plagiarism prevention strategy rather than the main focus of a strategy. In order to help the academic community deal with plagiarism effectively the Plagiarism Advisory Service aims specifically to: identify and disseminate examples of best practice to the community; seek to identify and address gaps in the current provision; provide a programme of regional workshops to raise awareness of the relevant issues; stimulate debate within the community via a dedicated discussion list; and support a national el plagiarism detection facility based upon the turnitinsoftware developed by iParadigms [URL:http://www.turnitin.org]. (Quotes from original text)

Brine, Alan; Stubbings, Ruth

Library + Information Update; 2 (12) Dec 2003, pp.42-44

Reports the conduct and findings of a survey investigating student plagiarism at Loughborough University, UK, undertaken by the library jointly with the Learning and Teaching Support Network. The survey covered the students' practice, understanding and attitudes in relation to plagiarism and also work habits, information seeking behaviour and ability to produce correct citations. Among the findings are that studentshave a basic understanding of plagiarism and citation but are not aware of the intricacies of citation and that postponing assignments to the deadline is a factor in recourse to plagiarism. Libraries can help by guiding academic staff to Web sites on plagiarism deterrence, linking to the Jisc detection service and assisting students with plagiarism avoidance and the formatting of bibliographic references.

Peters, John

Multimedia Information and Technology; 29 (4) Nov 2003, pp.106

Discusses the growth in plagiarism, particularly in academia, encouraged by access to the vast amount of material on the World Wide Web. Offers advice and personal standards for authors on how to protect themselves against committing plagiarism by: having a reliable structure and system for their research; being scrupulous about attribution; beingabsolutely correct in citation and quotation; being aware of and practice the Codes of Ethics of the relevant professional association; andadopt an attitude of zero tolerance to plagiarism within the organization. (Quotes from original text)