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		<title>Hugh Laddie &#8211; Tribute</title>
		<link>http://www.lawfont.com/2008/12/01/hugh-laddie-tribute/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 30 Nov 2008 22:24:21 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;m very sad to hear of the death of Sir Hugh Laddie. Tributes are pouring in, of course. I&#8217;ll remember him for the 1995 Stephen Stewart lecture, &#8220;Copyright, Over-Strength, Over-Regulated, Over-Rated,&#8221; 18 E.I.PR. 253 (1996) &#8211; I read it the same year I first studied copyright, and it&#8217;s influenced my thinking ever since. His Modern [...]]]></description>
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		<title>More detail emerges on the UK &#8216;three strikes&#8217; type scheme</title>
		<link>http://www.lawfont.com/2008/07/25/more-detail-on-the-uk-scheme/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lawfont.com/2008/07/25/more-detail-on-the-uk-scheme/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Fri, 25 Jul 2008 01:13:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Copyright]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[More detail has now emerged on &#8216;three-strikes&#8217; developments in the UK.  &#8216;Three strikes&#8217; refers to proposals currently doing the rounds &#8211; heavily pushed by various IP rights-owning organisations &#8211; to have ISPs monitor online copyright infringement (particularly P2P), warn users, and, if infringement persists, impose sanctions such as termination of service. The French have [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK to announce three-strikes scheme for &#8216;curbing&#8217; downloaders&#8217; internet access</title>
		<link>http://www.lawfont.com/2008/07/24/uk-three-strikes-scheme/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lawfont.com/2008/07/24/uk-three-strikes-scheme/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:50:30 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Times today is reporting that &#8216;[p]arents whose children download music and films illegally will be blacklisted and have their internet access curbed under government reforms to fight online piracy&#8217;.  According to the report:
The measures, the first of their kind in the world, will be announced today by Baroness Vadera, who brokered the deal [...]]]></description>
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		<title>What customer &#8216;value&#8217; are copyright owners entitled to?</title>
		<link>http://www.lawfont.com/2008/04/17/what-customer-value-are-copyright-owners-entitled-to/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lawfont.com/2008/04/17/what-customer-value-are-copyright-owners-entitled-to/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Apr 2008 22:26:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Bill Patry has another must-read, where he&#8217;s analysed a submission of the &#8216;Music Business Group&#8217; in the UK opposing the introduction of a personal format-shifting exception not unlike the one we introduced in Australia in 2006.
You really must go and read Bill&#8217;s post, but one thing that really struck me was the summarised argument by [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Resale Royalties &#8211; UK Report</title>
		<link>http://www.lawfont.com/2008/04/03/resale-royalties-uk-report/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lawfont.com/2008/04/03/resale-royalties-uk-report/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Apr 2008 06:11:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Here&#8217;s a report Peter Garrett might be interested in: the UK IP Office has released a Report it commissioned into the UK Resale Royalty Scheme. 
The UK introduced such a scheme (which provides a percentage of sale prices of original artworks to the artist) in 2006 &#8211; as a result of a European Directive. Peter [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Notice and terminate/three strikes/here we go again</title>
		<link>http://www.lawfont.com/2008/02/18/notice-and-terminatethree-strikeshere-we-go-again/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lawfont.com/2008/02/18/notice-and-terminatethree-strikeshere-we-go-again/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Sun, 17 Feb 2008 23:28:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Several people have pointed out to me that according to the SMH, like the UK government, 
[t]he Rudd Government is considering a three-strikes policy against computer users who download songs illegally.
According to the SMH, 
The Government will examine new legislative proposals being unveiled in Britain this week to target people who download films and music [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Proposals for ISPs to terminate infringers go (even more) global</title>
		<link>http://www.lawfont.com/2008/02/14/proposals-for-isps-to-terminate-infringers-go-even-more-global/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lawfont.com/2008/02/14/proposals-for-isps-to-terminate-infringers-go-even-more-global/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Wed, 13 Feb 2008 23:02:43 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Blogosphere is a-buzz with leaked news that the UK government might be considering requiring ISPs to monitor copyright infringement, and terminate repeat offenders.  See Technollama, the IPKat, TechCrunch here, Boing Boing, Techdirt here, and the original Times Online here, .  According to the Times:
Users suspected of wrongly downloading films or music will receive [...]]]></description>
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		<title>UK considers new copyright exceptions &#8211; and old copyright mistakes</title>
		<link>http://www.lawfont.com/2008/01/14/uk-considers-new-copyright-exceptions-and-old-copyright-mistakes/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lawfont.com/2008/01/14/uk-considers-new-copyright-exceptions-and-old-copyright-mistakes/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 14 Jan 2008 01:31:35 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kim</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Copyright]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Michael Geist, the IPKat, Bill Patry and no doubt others note that the UK IP Office has issued a consultation paper on &#8216;Taking Forward the Gowers Review of Intellectual Property: Proposed Changes to Copyright Exceptions&#8216;. At a cool 90 pages, it&#8217;s a big document; it&#8217;s also a very detailed one, covering potential broadened copyright exceptions [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A compendium of patent office cooperation &#8211; and some thoughts [updated]</title>
		<link>http://www.lawfont.com/2007/10/29/a-compendium-of-patent-office-cooperation-and-some-thoughts/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lawfont.com/2007/10/29/a-compendium-of-patent-office-cooperation-and-some-thoughts/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Mon, 29 Oct 2007 07:10:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>kim</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I&#8217;ve become more interested in copyright bureaucracies, and patent and trade mark offices: how they operate; how transparent they are; who they are; how powers are divided between them; how they interact; how they characterise their role, their &#8216;customers&#8217;, and their &#8217;stakeholders&#8217;.  How we make them accountable for the decisions they make &#8211; or [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Social networking: be careful what you post</title>
		<link>http://www.lawfont.com/2007/07/19/social-networking-be-careful-what-you-post/</link>
		<comments>http://www.lawfont.com/2007/07/19/social-networking-be-careful-what-you-post/#comments</comments>
		<pubDate>Thu, 19 Jul 2007 02:15:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>sarah</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[And here&#8217;s a new danger from posting information on Facebook&#8211;your university might use the information to fine you for breaking the rules.
Oxford University has reportedly used photographs of students on the popular social networking website Facebook who they say have broken the University&#8217;s rules regarding conduct after examinations to charge fines. The conduct? Being sprayed [...]]]></description>
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