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Football update

Anyone who follows a football team for any length of time knows that the lows far outnumber the highs. For me one such low occurred the last time I turned out to cheer my team on last weekend. Early in...

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Is it OK to shoot the messenger?

And if so, should Google be taking some bullets? I’ve just been reading this interesting news story. It seems that hundreds of thousands of copyright owners every week are spotting websites reproducing...

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In music news…

It seems that copyright-related controversy has unexpectedly reared its ugly head on the current tour of resurrected Madchester popsters, the Stone Roses. Photographers are boycotting events because...

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Brand on the run

NOT the Olympic logo If you haven’t been living in some kind of hermetically-sealed monastic retreat for the last twelve months you will have you noticed that there’s something going on in East London....

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Patisserie update!

Insert your own “copyright / “piece of cake” caption here I’ve come across some interesting copyright-related Twitter accounts lately: @copyrightgirl, @copyrightlaws* and the CLA’s own...

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Indian shop sued over students’ photocopies

An Indian university has set up its own photocopying shop to supply its students with cheap copies of textbooks. Publishers don’t like it and are taking them to court. Whose side are you on?

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Helicopter crash photos – who owns them?

Mobile phone “reporters” in Egypt The tragic helicopter crash in South London last week was yet another example of the important part which social media now plays in news reporting. The point at which...

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Art surgery

The irony that Banksy’s anti-establishment art commands huge prices isn’t lost on him. One of the best places to look for copyright-free images is the Creative Commons site. (It’s a copyright mantra I...

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Could copyright crash your birthday party?

Did you know that copyright in the song “Happy Birthday to You” belongs to the Warner/Chappell publishing house? Well that’s what they claim. They say they bought it in 1988 for a cost of $25 million....

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