In her annual Speech delivered at the State Opening of Parliament yesterday (May 8th) the Queen confirmed that stealing registered designs and selling counterfeit products for profit will become a criminal offence punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
Enterprise And Regulatory Reform Act Will Have Copyright Implications
The Enterprise and Regulatory Reform Bill received Royal Assent last week, meaning that the Government will be able to introduce controversial copyright reforms.
Copyright Licensing Agency Targeting Councils
Although the majority of councils in the UK hold copyright licences from the Copyright Licensing Agency (CLA), earlier this month the Agency forced one of the largest councils in the country to take one following legal action.
Web Browsing Referred To European Court
The UK Supreme Court has overturned a High Court ruling that readers who open articles via a website link are not breaking copyright law but has decided that the copyright issues are so important, it has referred the case it was examining to the European Court of Justice.
Online Copyright Protection
A collaboration between different parts of the global creative industry, under the umbrella of the Linked Content Coalition (LCC), has resulted in the creation of a technical Framework to make it possible to manage and access online rights information across all types of media and content, whether text, image, sound or audio-visual.