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May 21, 2012
How much attention have you been paying to IP developments in the past week? Test your knowledge with Managing IP’s news quiz
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April 23, 2012
While the 2012 French presidential election is dominated by concerns about the economy, the candidates have also campaigned on ACTA, copyright rules and ways to get the country innovating
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March 15, 2012
Hogan Lovells won the inaugural global IP firm of the year award at tonight’s Managing IP Awards Dinner in London
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January 27, 2012
Free access: The nominations for Managing IP’s Global Awards 2012 have been announced
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January 05, 2012
As the clock counted down to 2012, the estates of artists, creators, authors and composers prepared to see their incomes wane as copyright works slip out of protection
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November 24, 2011
Today's decision by the Court of Justice will make it harder for rights owners to force ISPs to help them fight illegal downloading
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October 07, 2011
French courts might soon decide whether 60 alleged internet pirates should be fined or be cut off from the internet after they ignored final warnings about infringing copyright
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September 29, 2011
The original advocate of reforming collecting societies explains why the system is such a mess, but the European Commission can do little about it
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September 27, 2011
Members of collecting societies across Europe are heading to Luxembourg this week to tell Europe’s General Court why they should not be forced to offer cross-border services for collecting and distributing royalties for music
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August 09, 2011
The completion of Google Books’ first deal with a publisher – Hachette, in France – might also be the only way forward for the book-scanning project in the US
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July 15, 2011
New Zealand’s government has confirmed the price that a rights owner must pay an ISP when sending an infringement notice and set out what information needs to be provided
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July 05, 2011
“I am the person that everybody hates,” admitted Marie-Françoise Marais, president of Hadopi – the organisation set up to enact France’s controversial three-strikes law cracking down on online file sharers
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June 01, 2011
The G8 included two paragraphs asserting support for IP rights in its declaration last week. Though abstract, they highlight the areas most likely to be targeted by future legislation
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May 11, 2011
Google has been told it infringes publishers’ copyright by reproducing their headlines, in a decision by the Belgian Court of Appeal
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February 04, 2011
Francis Gurry believes the key to tackling online piracy is regulation of intermediaries such as ISPs. That requires international regulation best suited to the G20
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February 03, 2011
ACTA will undermine future agreements and fail because of its narrow focus, an Indian official argued today. The EU, Mexico and Japan vehemently disagreed.
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November 22, 2010
This week’s deal with Hachette Livre suggests the publishing industry has finally accepted the value of Google’s digital model
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November 18, 2010
Google has agreed in principle a deal that will see the Mountain View company scan publisher Hachette’s French out-of-print works
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November 09, 2010
The organisation of Europe’s collecting societies, which is largely on a member state basis, has frustrated licensees for years. But more recently it has also denied users new ways of accessing music
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October 12, 2010
The European Commission has told the French government it can subsidise a legal music downloading service as a way of combating illegal file-sharing