eoin o'dell at creative commons ireland event
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Will the Report of the Copyright
Review Committee (#CRC13)
Maximise Digital
Creativity, Sharing & Innovation ?
Dr Eoin O’DellChair of the Copyright Review Committee
Fellow & Associate Professor of Law, TCD
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COPYRIGHT REFORM
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COPYRIGHT REFORM
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COPYRIGHT REFORM
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COPYRIGHT REFORM
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Copyright and Related Rights
(Innovation) (Amendment) Bill 2013
Amending the Copyright and
Related Rights Act, 2000
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Copyright Council -
establishment
created by the copyright community
as an independent self-funding body
with a widely representative Board
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Copyright Council - functions
education, advice, advocacy
Digital Exchange, ADR, Orphan works
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Copyright Council – principal
objects (section 2 of the Schedule to
the Bill)
(g) promote creativity, sharing, open
access, and innovation.
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Photographers
Ease of reproduction of digital
photographs
Metadata – data about data
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New definition of metadata
To be included in definition of work
protected by copyright
Removal to amount to infringing
adaptation
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Private
copying
exceptions
eg
Format-
Shifting
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Caricature
Parody
Pastiche
Satire
or similar
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Non commercial
user-generated
content
http://www.youtube.com/yt/brand/downloads.html https://www.facebookbrand.com http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Flickr_wordmark.svg
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Linking not
infringement
of copyright
…
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… unless
linker knew
or ought to
have known
that it linked
to infringing
copy
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Reproduction of a very small snippet
of text reasonably adjacent to the link
< 160 characters or 2.5% of the work
Subject to a cap of 40 words
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Special innovation exception
works which are substantially
different from the original work or
substantially transform the original
work
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consider other exceptions first
turns on “such matters as the
court considers relevant”
including “any or some or all” of
up to 9 factors (not just 4 as in
US)