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		<title>The Stop Online Piracy Act; Analysing the Law</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 20 Jan 2012 00:00:37 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Duke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This post aims to be an objective analysis of SOPA, as they stand at the time of writing. I will attempt to update this as and if the law progress. Obviously I have no familiarity with US lawmaking, which may be particularly evident in this post. The Stop Online Piracy Act (SOPA) and Preventing Real [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=legalpiracy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=20114006&amp;post=331&amp;subd=legalpiracy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Measures to Tackle &#8216;Illegal Sites&#8217;</title>
		<link>http://legalpiracy.wordpress.com/2011/08/04/to-block-sites-or-not/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Aug 2011 21:31:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Duke</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://legalpiracy.wordpress.com/?p=318</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This week the Government published several documents relating to copyright. Most significantly, the IPO released its response to the Hargreaves Review of Intellectual Property and Growth. The Government seems to have accepted most of the recommendations in principle, including the legalisation of format-shifting, but we will not know until later this year (or next year) [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=legalpiracy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=20114006&amp;post=318&amp;subd=legalpiracy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Illegal Sites and Web-blocking</title>
		<link>http://legalpiracy.wordpress.com/2011/07/25/illegal-sites/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Jul 2011 02:30:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Duke</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Copyright]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://legalpiracy.wordpress.com/?p=292</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[In the last week there have been three stories in the news concerning copyright infringement and &#8220;illegal websites&#8221;. In each case, a group with an interest in enforcing copyright has called for or announced measures against such websites, but this raises an important question of what makes a website illegal. In terms of copyright infringement [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=legalpiracy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=20114006&amp;post=292&amp;subd=legalpiracy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Copyright – Should Fair Dealing be replaced by Fair Use?</title>
		<link>http://legalpiracy.wordpress.com/2011/07/15/copyright-%e2%80%93-should-fair-dealing-be-replaced-by-fair-use/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 16:41:25 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Duke</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://legalpiracy.wordpress.com/?p=262</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The following is an independent research essay analysing whether or not the UK should adopt a general, fair use defence to copyright infringement similar to the one found in US law. It was produced as part of my degree course, although the submitted version varies significantly due to limits on the length. This is the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=legalpiracy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=20114006&amp;post=262&amp;subd=legalpiracy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Makes Something Fair? &#8211; A close look at fair dealing</title>
		<link>http://legalpiracy.wordpress.com/2011/07/15/examining-fair-dealing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 15 Jul 2011 16:00:15 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Duke</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://legalpiracy.wordpress.com/?p=238</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[When copyright law was first introduced by the Copyright Act 1710, there were no defences available &#8211; is a registered book was copying, it was an infringement. Over the next two hundred years, judicial activism in this area led to a general defence known as &#8220;fair use.&#8221; The importance of this defence was recognised by [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=legalpiracy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=20114006&amp;post=238&amp;subd=legalpiracy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Privacy: Open Justice, Anonymised-, Super- and Hyper-Injunctions</title>
		<link>http://legalpiracy.wordpress.com/2011/05/23/privacy-law-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 23 May 2011 19:00:39 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Duke</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Privacy]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://legalpiracy.wordpress.com/?p=208</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the final of three posts investigating Privacy law in the UK. The first post examines the development of a law on privacy, its scope and the basic legal theory. The second post looks into the application of the law, focussing on contempt of court, the need for injunctions and their application, including orders [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=legalpiracy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=20114006&amp;post=208&amp;subd=legalpiracy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Privacy: Contempt of Court, Injunctions and Parliamentary Privilege</title>
		<link>http://legalpiracy.wordpress.com/2011/05/21/privacy-law-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 May 2011 01:00:31 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Duke</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://legalpiracy.wordpress.com/?p=196</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the second of three posts examining Privacy law in the UK. The first post examines the development of a law on privacy, its scope and the basic legal theory. This post will look into the application of the law, focussing on contempt of court, the need for injunctions and their application, including orders [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=legalpiracy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=20114006&amp;post=196&amp;subd=legalpiracy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>DNA Databases &#8211; A Challenge to the Law</title>
		<link>http://legalpiracy.wordpress.com/2011/05/18/dna-databases-a-challenge-to-the-law/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 18:30:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Duke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This entry is cross-posted from pirateparty.org.uk. Today the Supreme Court gave a long-awaited ruling on the subject of DNA databases and the ability of the police to store DNA samples of innocent people indefinitely. In a majority judgment (with two of the seven judges disagreeing) the Court ruled that the police practices were unlawful. Due [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=legalpiracy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=20114006&amp;post=186&amp;subd=legalpiracy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Privacy: The Development of a Law and the Legal Theory</title>
		<link>http://legalpiracy.wordpress.com/2011/05/18/privacy-law-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 18 May 2011 01:15:51 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Duke</dc:creator>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://legalpiracy.wordpress.com/?p=165</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[This is the first of three posts examining Privacy law in the UK. This post will examine the development of a law on privacy, its scope and the basic legal theory. The second post will look into the application of the law, focussing on contempt of court, the need for injunctions and their application, including [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=legalpiracy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=20114006&amp;post=165&amp;subd=legalpiracy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Legalising Format-shifting</title>
		<link>http://legalpiracy.wordpress.com/2011/05/10/legalising-format-shifting/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 09 May 2011 23:00:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Duke</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Format-shifting, space-shifting and time-shifting are curious oddities of copyright law. Two of these three are currently illegal in the UK, all are routinely done by thousands, if not millions of people across the country. While there have been attempts and drives to change this by legalising format- and space-shifting, the current EU laws on copyright [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=legalpiracy.wordpress.com&amp;blog=20114006&amp;post=153&amp;subd=legalpiracy&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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