Around the IP Blogs!
Keep up to date with the global IP news with IPKat's tour of the IP blogosphere! Highlights this week include a report on the progress of the "This is Spinal Tap" lawsuit in the US, the publication of the first issue of the Brazilian Case Law of the Boards of Appeal and a review of a new reference book on the UPC. Copyright The Kluwer Copyright Blog discusses the issue of copyright reform. Christina Angelopoulos (CIPIL, University of Cambridge) and Joao Pedro Quintais (Institute for Information Law (IViR)) argue that the European Commission proposal for a new Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market fails to address the real problem afflicting EU copyright law, which the authors identify as the proliferation of copyright infringement online in general, as opposed to that restricted to online sharing platforms. The authors go on to outline their two-pronged proposal to address the problem: Fixing Copyright Reform: How to Address Online Infringement and Bridge...