Master Dissertation

If you would care to take a look at the work I produced during my master dissertation, please feel free to click on the link below. TIBBIE McINTYRE – MASTER DISSERTATION Thank you.

Academic boycott of new journal over open access

This blog was first published on 06 May 2018 here: http://the1709blog.blogspot.co.uk/2018/05/academic-boycott-of-new-journal-over.html Many months ago, this blogger wrote about ‘Open Science and Open Culture’. I’d like to continue this line of discourse if I may, (having recently emerged from a writing malaise borne out of a seemingly unending job search) with a discussion on academic publishing […]

Sebastian Tomczak and the limitations of YouTube’s $60 million dollar Content ID software

This blog was first published on 16 January 2018 here: http://the1709blog.blogspot.co.uk/2018/01/sebastian-tomczak-and-limitations-of.html Having had an extended hiatus from blogging after a particularly bruising and fraught masters dissertation process (!), this blogger is absolutely delighted to return to discuss the plight of Sebastian Tomczak, a music technologist whose 10 hour YouTube video of White Noise was plagued […]

Open Culture and Copyright: CREATe IP Summer Summit 2017

This blog was first published on 05 July 2017 here: http://the1709blog.blogspot.co.uk/2017/07/open-culture-and-copyright-create-ip.html and it was then published on 18 August 2017 here: http://www.create.ac.uk/blog/2017/08/18/cipss17-tibbie-mcintyre/ The CREATe IP Summer Summit 2017 took place over the course of last week, Monday 26 June – Friday 30 June. In this inaugural year, the theme of the Summit was ‘Open Science […]

Sunday COPYKAT

This blog was first published on 28 May 2017 here: http://the1709blog.blogspot.co.uk/2017/05/sunday-copykat.html Australia grapples over fair dealing or fair use – with Australian collection society channelling fees intended for authors into ‘fair-use opposition fund’ The potential replacement of fair dealing provisions with fair use provisions has been a hot topic in Australia for some years now. […]

Conference Report – ‘Moral Rights and New Technologies: Authorship, Attribution and Integrity in a Digital World’

This blog was first published on 23 May 2017 here: http://the1709blog.blogspot.co.uk/2017/05/conference-report-moral-rights-and-new.html This writer had the great pleasure of attending a conference on ‘Moral Rights and New Technologies: Authorship, Attribution, and Integrity in a Digital World,’ held on 31 March and 1 April at the University of Glasgow. It was truly a feast for the intellect […]

THE COPYKAT

This blog was first published on 04 April 2017 here: http://the1709blog.blogspot.co.uk/2017/04/the-copykat.html The WS Society – Intellectual Property Conference – 20 April You are warmly invited to attend the upcoming Intellectual Property Conference hosted by the WS Society. The event will take place on Thursday 20 April 2017, 9:00am – 1:00pm, at The Signet Library in Edinburgh. The […]

THE COPYKAT

This blog was first published on 26 March 2017 here: http://the1709blog.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/the-copykat_26.html The UK Copyright Officers survey – deadline 3rd April If you work at a UK library and educational/cultural institution, your organisation is warmly invited to take part in a survey about copyright officers and copyright education here. The survey is available until 3rd April. The UK Copyright Literacy […]

Review of Professor Thomas Höppner’s Lecture In Support of Neighbouring Right for Press Publishers

This blog was first published on 14 March 2017 here: http://the1709blog.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/review-of-professor-thomas-hoppners.html This post is from Tibbie McIntyre. This 1709 intern was delighted to attend a lecture given by Professor Doctor Thomas Höppner at the University of Glasgow on February 14th of this year. The lecture was entitled “EU copyright reform: the case for a related […]

THE COPYKAT

This blog was first published on 09 March 2017 here: http://the1709blog.blogspot.co.uk/2017/03/the-copykat.html Extradition to US for alleged torrenter Artem Vaulin Artem Vaulin – the alleged owner of the torrenting site KickAss Torrents (“KAT”) and Ukranian national – is facing extradition to the United States. In July 2016 he was arrested in Poland and charged by criminal complaint, filed […]