A New Bill Amending the Finnish Copyright Act
The Finnish Government recently put forward a new Bill amending the Copyright Act as well as the Act on the Protection of Privacy in Electronic Communications Act. According to the new Bill, Operators...
View ArticleUpcoming seminar!
IRI, in co-operation with the panel for media Law at the SCCL, is organising a seminar Copyright law on the Internet: authors’ rights in informational products and the Pirate Bay scenario from a...
View ArticleSweden now represented in Kluwer’s International Encyclopaedia for Cyber Law
Christine Kirchberger, Swedish Law & Informatics Research Institute, has recently authored the Swedish monograph for Kluwer’s International Encyclopaedia for Cyber Law. The series discusses legal...
View ArticleSony sues LG for violating its patents
With the ongoing mushrooming of smartphones, every vendor is now keen of its Intellectual property rights including patents. With that in mind, it means the patent battle is still on. The battle of...
View ArticleSeminar: copyright law on the Internet
In a seminar recently held by IRI, in co-operation with the panel for media law at the Stockholm Centre for Commercial Law, Professor William van Caenegem from Bond University, Australia, discussed...
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Copyright or right to private communication?
Five years ago, when I founded the Swedish and first Pirate Party, we set three pillars for our policy: shared culture, free knowledge, and fundamental privacy. These were themes that were heard as...
View ArticleCopyright in Australia: fundamental changes and issues. Part I
This post has been written by William van Caenegem, Professor of Law, Bond University (Australia). It is based on the seminar “Copyright law on the internet: authors’ rights in informational products...
View ArticleCopyright in Australia: fundamental changes and issues. Part II
This post has been written by William van Caenegem, Professor of Law, Bond University (Australia). It is based on the seminar “Copyright law on the internet: authors’ rights in informational products...
View ArticlePrivacy and online copyright – Australia’s High Court leads the way (but in...
In December 2011, the High Court of Australia heard an appeal by copyright-owning organisations against an Australian Internet Service Provider (Roadshow Films Pty Ltd & Ors v iiNet Limited, No....
View ArticlePlagiarism as tension between creativity and sharing
Excellent post on The Plagiarism Perplex by Barbara Fister on plagiarism and the grey area between creativity and sharing, writing and reading: There is an extraordinary tension in our culture between...
View ArticleIgnorance or arrogance – A US court claims the right to regulate the Internet...
The legal drama that has followed in the wake of the online publication of the film titled ‘Innocence of Muslims’ may be worthy of being used as the plot for a movie in its own right. And, given a...
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