News: Independent Code Review – update

The first Independent Code Review runs until May 2014 when the Reviewer publishes his report.The consultation period for the Call for Evidence ended on the 28th and has generated considerable interest. The Review team is now reviewing the evidence and the issues...

Celebrating 60 Years in Copyright

Spyros, Trevor, Gillian, Hugh © Carys Lavin, 2014 Janet, Florian, Fran, Adrian © Carys Lavin, 2014 Constance Sutherland, Nick Munn, Adrian © Carys Lavin, 2014 A group of former students © Carys Lavin, 2014 On 18 March 2014 at a Reception at Stationers Hall, London,...

News: Copyright Notices

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...

News: Orphan Works

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...

News: WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights

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...
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