Tie me up, tie me down?

This Xmas, I was disappointed to discover that one of my favourite movie directors, Pedro Almodovar, has been heading up an all-star cast in a ‘culture comes first’ campaign to defend EU artists’ levies on private copying. See euobserver on this and a wider ‘gloves-off’ debate on EU regulation entitled ‘Creative rights focus’.
Since I have [...]

Gowers reports

Andrew Gowers, commissioned by the British government to map the next generation’s intellectual-property framework, reported his findings and made his recommendation this Wednesday. See Becky Hogge’s interview with Andrew Gowers on openDemocracy.
There’s some more detail at Intellectual Property Watch…