The European Strategy: Send Money to the US
(this is now Part Un, Part Deux is here) So a lot is going on in the EU on the intellectual property front these days! Let’s run down the past six weeks or so. Our last post was about the release of...
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The European Strategy: Send Money to the US (Part Deux)
Most of the time, the international politics of intellectual property law are pretty easy to follow: countries that are large exporters of intellectual property usually favor stronger international IP...
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The European Strategy: The Curse of Harry Potter (Part 3)
When we last left the European Commission, it was continuing its pursuit of SMUS (Send Money to the US) based IP policies. We raised some questions about the wisdom of this strategy. But there is...
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The European Strategy Trilogy
Now gathered in one place for the first time, The European Strategy Trilogy is finally available in hi-definition HTML. Why is the pan-European cinema, in effect, the American cinema? Why do European...
View ArticleComment on European Audiovisual Policy
I’ve turned The European Strategy Trilogy into something a little more refined and submitted it to the European Commission’s public consultation on ‘Assessing State aid for films and other audiovisual...
View ArticleCopy Culture — O’Reilly Tools of Change Conference Talk
With the takedown of Library.nu (formerly Gigapedia), the major US and UK publishers are joining the war on file sharing. This is a subject we’ll be paying a lot of attention to in the next couple...
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File Sharing and the Greek Crisis
What else is going on in Greece these days? Did you guess: a major crackdown on Greek file sharing sites? On this subject, I’m very pleased to publish a guest essay by Dr. Petros Petridis of Panteio...
View ArticleA Note on TERA’s “The Economic Contribution of the Creative Industries to EU...
TERA Associates has released a follow up to their 2010 study on the impact of “piracy” on creative industries in the European Union. The new study, entitled “The Economic Contribution of the Creative...
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Movie Politics and Piracy in the EU
With the news that a group of Dutch film companies are suing the Dutch government for alleged inaction on piracy, it seems worth re-upping this piece from 2011 about movie production and piracy in the...
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