Following its detailed response to the EU’s public consultation on a Review of EU copyright rules, the BCC has followed up with a high level letter to Commissioner Barnier, European Commissioner for Internal Market & Services. While recognising that...
At its meeting with IPO on Wednesday 12th March, the BCC, while welcoming the publication of the first Copyright Notice on digital images, photographs and the internet, noted that none of its visual arts and photography members organisations had been contacted prior...
The BCC’s response to the UK Government Consultation on “Copyright works: seeking the lost” can be found below. The BCC remains unconvinced about the practicalities of IPO’s proposals and many of its members feel that a great many questions...
In his statement at the 9th December SCCR/29 meeting, the BCC’s representative Andrew Yeates, welcomed progress on the proposals for a Treaty on the protection of broadcasting organisations but he also emphasised that any protection of the broadcasting signal...
Launching the Call for Evidence, Walter Merricks, CBE, the Independent Code Reviewer said”The creative industries and the rights they generate form a significant contribution to the UK economy, and the internet has changed many of the business models that used...
The BCC was ably represented at WIPO SCCR 26 by Andrew Yeates, a BCC Board Member and Chairman of its Working Group on Copyright and Technology. Also present, but representing other author interests were, Maureen Duffy, FRSL, the BCC’s President of Honour and...
The International Authors Forum was launched at WIPO in Geneva on the 16th December with Trevor Clarke, Assistant Director General for the Culture and Creative Industries Sector, giving the Forum a warm welcome. Maureen Duffy, FRSL author, poet and the BCC’s President...
The BCC has appointed Ruth Hennessy as Research Assistant for the Independent Code Review. For the next six months, Ruth will work with Walter Merricks, CBE, the Independent Code Reviewer on the Call for Evidence. Ruth has an LL.M in IP (with distinction) from Queen...
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