Over the last few days we’ve published video from the public forum on the report of the Copyright Review Comittee, held this week at the Royal Irish Academy. We deliberately refrained from filming the audience Q&A as some people might not have been comfortable with that, but afterwards we spoke to one of those who […]
Professor Steve Hedley is the third member of the Copyright Review Committee and he takes us through the final part of their presentation at the Royal Irish Academy on Monday, after presentations by Eoin O’Dell and Patricia McGovern. [youtube]http://youtu.be/OJlOKlJa3oY[/youtube] This presentation outlines in detail the proposed exceptions allowing copying and format-shifting for private use, as well as […]
Patricia McGovern takes up the baton from Eoin O’Dell, as they present the report of the Copyright Review Committee last Monday at the Royal Irish Academy. Ms McGovern discusses the committee’s recommendations for the Controller of Intellectual Property, and for Intellectual Property tracks in the District and Circuit Courts. She outlines the recommended measures relating […]
Here’s the first of three videos in which the authors of the Copyright Review Committee Report present the report to the public forum held at the Royal Irish Academy on Monday. In this video: Dr Eoin O’Dell, who chaired the committee, talks about the proposed Copyright Council, explains the committee’s recommendations to amend the existing […]
The Minister of State for Research and Innovation, Sean Sherlock TD, has said that he intends to act on the recommendations of the report of the Copyright Review Committee, and that he and Minister Richard Bruton hope to bring proposals for copyright reform to the government in 2014. “I can assure you that it is […]
It was barely promoted; indeed it was hardly mentioned since the Copyright Review Committee Report was announced over two months ago. But the Public Forum on the Report, to be held next Monday at 5pm at the Royal Irish Academy, is all booked out. The Department of Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation have confirmed to technology.ie that […]
The Irish law blog Cearta.ie is offline this morning after its owner, Dr. Eoin O’Dell of Trinity College, shut it down in response to a decision regarding its academic value. Responding to queries from his followers on Twitter this morning, Dr. O’Dell explained that he had shut down his blog because the Head of […]
