
Unique collection of old TV culture put at risk by a heavy-handed copyright takedown system
Although copyright is mainly thought of as concerning books, music and films, it applies to other kinds of creativity in a fixed form. That includes apparently trivial material…

PlayStation reminds people that digital ownership is vanishing, by removing films they had bought
Last month, we wrote about the imminent death of digital ownership. In case some people didn’t get the message, Sony’s PlayStation division has just made it crystal clear…

How the financialisation of music could lead to demands for perpetual copyright
Back in October, this blog noted the huge amounts of money pouring into music copyrights, largely driven by the global rise of online streaming. Since then, that trend…