by jboyd on Wed, 08/10/2014 - 07:17
CopyrightLink.org website unveiled as new online home for information on copyright

The International Federation of Reproduction Rights Organisations (IFRRO) has announced the launch of The Value of Copyright, a campaign designed to emphasise the importance of copyright and improve information about the protection of literary and artistic works , primarily in the text and image-based sectors. [Read more ...]

BARGAIN HUNTERS from around the world flock to Manhattan's Chinatown for legally sold bags, jewellery and other accessories bursting onto sidewalks from storefronts along Canal Street. But hidden around the city are goods labelled 'Prada' or 'Louis Vuitton' or some other luxury brand ... [Read More]

In his latest book "The Future" former Vice-President, Al Gore emphasises the need to compensate for the work done by individuals. There is a decoupling of "gains in productivity from gains in the standard of living for the middle class", which needs to change as "This trend is now nearing a threshold beyond which so many jobs are lost that the level of consumer demand falls below the level necessary to sustain healthy economic growth."...[Read more]

An update to German copyright law, providing for an auxiliary protection for tiny extracts from press articles, has been passed by the German Upper House (“Bundesrat”). The enactment of a related right to copyright will ask commercial aggregators to pay publishers for the use of headlines and extracts of news articles. Internet platforms will require a licence for the use of publishers’ content, except for “single words” or “minimal extracts”...[Read more]

Chinua Achebe, the Nigerian novelist seen by millions as the father of African literature, has died at the age of 82. African papers were reporting his death following an illness and hospital stay in Boston this morning, and both his agent and his publisher later confirmed the news to the Guardian. Simon Winder, publishing director at Penguin, called him an "utterly remarkable man"...[Read more]

Poetry contributes to creative diversity, by questioning anew our use of words and things, our modes of perception and understanding of the world. Through its associations, its metaphors and its own grammar, poetic language is thus conceivably another facet of the dialogue among cultures...[Read more]