Copyright Aid

Chris, I'll try to give you the short answer: if what you are playing is an original work (that is currently protected by copyright), and you do not have a licence to perform that work, then you will be infringing and someone, somewhere will have the right to take action against you.

I'm not sure ...

Andy, I'm not going through this point by point - I've made my comments to Gem. You and I clearly disagree.

However, what you can help me out with is the method by which s174 has an effect on s32. I read through both, including the latest revisions (S.I. 2014/1372 reg. 4(1), I think), but I am ...

What Andy writes about Temple Island Collections is, at least, partially true. The wrinkles in his argument however are: many people do think it a strange decision, but they probably haven't read it properly – the main issue in the case is that the defendant intended to copy, and that cannot be ...

This is a tricky question because on the one hand you have Norowzian v Arks which says that technique is not protected by copyright, on the other you are almost directly copying the work of another, which is protected. In addition you have the ruling in Temple Island Teas (the "red bus" case) which ...

AndyJ wrote:In simple terms it would be as if there had been a verbal contract ab initio.

In simple terms that ("ab initio") means "from the start"

Andy, we disagree, we are not going to change our minds on that and there is no point in continuing to illustrate how we disagree. What I find amazing is that you continue to want to ignore the ratio of the courts in their assessment that authorisation of the original posting is required - this is ...

Andy, I believe we disagree over the issue of whether it is an infringement to link/frame unauthorised content. I base my rationale, that it is an infringement, on the issue of authorisation from the rights holder being within the rationale that the CJEU has used. That there are four criteria what ...

Turning to Clive's point, I have to say I am not entirely sure what is being argued here. The sentence "how can it be illegal to link to unauthorised content, but not illegal to link to unauthorised content" clearly contains a typo, but I'm not sure where.

I can help you out there, there is no ...

Really, your business relies upon withholding answers to all three of those questions?

Regarding the question of why I am re-publishing. I have done market research as to whether this book is saleable locally. There is a strong feeling for nostalgia in Pompey, and a very strong sense of local identity. I would be looking to do short print runs, POD.

So, if I am understanding it ...

Fluoresce, I think you can see the conflict between the existing cases and the position Andy is taking - how can it be illegal to link to unauthorised content, but not illegal to link to unauthorised content!?

This is a direct quote from Svensson (not someone else's interpretation):

27. In those ...

Matt,

I'd be interested in your reasons for wanting to re-publish this document, what is its content? I'm just generally interested in why old documents like this would be revived.

Thanks

I think the point is this: if you are intending to copy something, then it's probably infringing.

You say its just simple shapes, and perhaps it just happens to look like Peppa Pig (and if it's just chance and you've never seen Peppa Pig then you might have a defence), but I say there are literally ...

Anyway, I've unpublished the app and will rework it from scratch. Too bad that I had to do that since that game was very well accepted by kids…

I think what you need to ask yourself is why it was popular with that audience? Is it because they were confused over the origin of the work and ...

I'm not really sure why you expect to get a response within four days. You've probably had the game online for a lot longer than that, so expect the rights holders to take some time considering what they will do before they get back to you.

With regard to what AndyJ has written about 2d-3D ...