Taylor Swift: singer, songwriter, copyright innovator
Taylor Swift is in the news, and not just because she has become the most decorated solo artist of all time. The fact that Taylor Swift has already…
A Swiftian solution to some of copyright’s problems
Copyright is generally understood to be for the benefit of two groups of people: creators and their audience. Given that modern copyright often acts against the interests of…
Copyright has been one of life’s certainties: but will it always be?
Copyright seems to be a fixture of our legal, economic and social systems. For 300 years, it has formed the backbone of the structures used to incentivise and…
Why are Taylor Swift and academics all in the same boat? And why is she more fortunate?
Last week a blog post explained why academics have lost control of their own papers, and what they can do about it. This might seem a rather limited…
Billions of dollars pour into music copyright “assets”: how much will the creators ever see?
A few weeks ago, this blog reported on the spectacular 45 billion euro valuation of Universal Music Group (UMG) when it went public on Amsterdam’s Euronext exchange. It…