Maurizio Borghi tells the story of the success of the player piano roll, that was partly due to the lack of enforceable IP rights in the music, setting the scene for the beginning of the conflict over the control of music that continues today.The Consumption Age includes objects from the oral contraceptive pill to a football, with everything from the photocopier, the barbie doll and lego brick in between, as well as the Chanel 2.55 handbag. [read post]

Participants who have already confirmed that they will attend include: Lionel Bently, Cambridge U; Mario Biagioli, Harvard U; Maurizio Borghi, Brunel U; Kathy Bowrey, U of New South Wales; Ronan Deazley, U of Glasgow; Christophe Geiger, U of Strasbourg; Johanna Gibson, Queen Mary U of London; Peter Jaszi, American U; Lilla Montagnani, Bocconi U; Martha Woodmansee, Case Western Reserve U Important dates Prospectus submission deadline: 5 June 2010 Notification of acceptance: 25 June… [read post]

Unlike the few others who have addressed the subject - most of whom seem to assume that a single analysis applies to all moral rights - the article explores several First Amendment doctrines, including commercial speech, defamatory speech, and content-neutral speech.Next, a look at how to best disseminate works on the internet:Montagnani, Maria Lillà and Borghi, Maurizio, "Positive Copyright and Open Content Licences: How to Make a Marriage Work by… [read post]

The most striking legal story of the week was the reporting of the Administrative Court’s ruling on Article 50 and the Royal Prerogative ([2016] EWHC 2768 (Admin)). [read post]