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EXCESS COPYRIGHT
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EXCESS COPYRIGHT is a personal blog at excesscopyright.blogspot.com. Since 2010, 5 different Hacker News readers have linked it 5 times. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-06-04, and you can follow it by feed.
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Why HN links it
HN commenters link EXCESS COPYRIGHT posts on copyright and licensing: the Special 301 trade report, Access Copyright fees and university disputes, and the TuneIn ruling and Getty Images.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 4 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Intellectual property law is good. Excess in intellectual property law is not. This blog is about excess in IP and related law. I have practiced law with prestigious firms and successfully acted for interveners in several important Supreme Court cases. I've also been in government & academ
What Hacker News says?
A UK High Court ruled in 2019 that websites like TuneIn are distributing illegal music[0]. It went to appeals but the previous ruling was upheld. There hasn't been much clarification beyond that nor very clear enforcement. But the precedent this ruling set makes companies fear repercussions if they accidentally link to a stream that has content not licensed for the UK. To interpret this ruling broadly would be to br…
Comment linking /2019/11/did-uk-judge-just-break-internet-stay.html
on “TV Garden”Submitted Music Industry Litigation: Moving On From Single Mothers to Car Companies as a story · 2 points
HN discussion"Look, if you want to get a Getty image today, you can find it without a watermark very simply," he says. "The way you do that is you go to one of our customer sites and you right-click. Or you go to Google Image search or Bing Image Search and you get it there. And that's what's happening… Our content was everywhere already." When Getty Images gets in the news in Holland it is usually for sending angry letters, dem…
Comment linking /2008/05/watching-getty-images-watching.html
on “Getty Images makes its images free to use”It mostly feeds into other negotiations and trade agreements. It is not actionable itself but provides political pressure during almost any other trade agreement. Canada has been a member of this list for a least the last 2 years and I think longer than that. http://excesscopyright.blogspot.com/2010/02/annual-301-parad... I don't have first hand knowledge but am led to believe that this report is often used during t…
Comment linking /2010/02/annual-301-parade-ustr-calls-for.html
on “Use open source? Then you're a pirate”Here is my take on the situation: Access Copyright receives a fee from large institutions (educational, government) in order to provide licensing rights to protected content and ensure copyright holders are compensated. Late last year, institutions started to receive word of a substantial increase in the Access Copyright fees for the upcoming year. Access Copyright claims that they are about to make a lot more mater…
Comment linking /2010/12/auccs-final-fair-dealing-policy-with.html
on “University Of Calgary Refusing To Pay Access Copyright Any More”