Naomi Korn, the Strategic Content Alliance’s IPR consultant, writes:
A judicial review of the measures to tackle online copyright infringement within the Digital Economy Act, which has been brought by BT and Talk Talk, has just ruled in favour of the Government. BT and Talk Talk claimed that the measures in the Digital Economy Act to cut the internet services of users who allegedly download illegal content such as music, films and books, were not compliant with EU law nor were proportionate. This argument was rejected by the judge, Mr Justice Kenneth Parke, who upheld the principle of the measures within the Act to tackle the unlawful downloading of copyright material.
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Confused by copyright? In the dark about IPR?
A new elearning module from the Strategic Content Alliance is to help update people dealing with intellectual property rights in universities, colleges, museums, libraries and other public bodies.
Access the module at http://www.web2rights.com/SCAIPRModule
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Maximising online resource effectiveness is a new section on the SCA blog dedicated to reports, guides and case studies that summarise the key principles in this increasingly important area and present a condensed version of the highly successful series of workshops commissioned by the Strategic Content Alliance and undertaken by JISC Netskills in 2010.
Find out more at Maximising online resource effectiveness