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Welcome back to another week of Bells & Whistles. As always, we’ve rounded up a mix of developments, opportunities, and thoughtful reads from across the IP world along with a Bell of the Week that’s well worth revisiting. Bell of the Week: Copyright at 50 – Can the Law Keep Up? Copyright law has always had to contend with a rather difficult question: how do you make rules for creative works when the ways we create, share and use them

Welcome back to another week of Bells & Whistles. As always, we’ve rounded up a mix of developments, opportunities, and thoughtful reads from across the IP world along with a Bell of the Week that’s well worth revisiting. Bell of the Week: Who Really Drives Innovation? When we talk about innovation, we often think of businesses, entrepreneurs and the big breakthroughs they bring to the market. Governments, meanwhile, tend to be seen as playing a supporting role — funding research

Welcome back to another week of Bells & Whistles. As always, we’ve rounded up a mix of developments, opportunities, and thoughtful reads from across the IP world along with a Bell of the Week that’s well worth revisiting. Bell of the Week: What Does Justice Have to Do With IP?  Some organisations work to change the law. Some work to make the law easier to find, understand or use. And some make us pause and ask a more fundamental question:

Welcome back to another week of Bells & Whistles. As always, we’ve rounded up a mix of developments, opportunities, and thoughtful reads from across the IP world along with a Bell of the Week that’s well worth revisiting. Bell of the Week: When You Don’t Know the Name of the Trademark  Every now and then, I come across a tool that makes me wonder how we managed without it.  The WIPO Global Brand Database is one of those tools. You can

Welcome back to another week of Bells & Whistles. As always, we’ve rounded up a mix of developments, opportunities, and thoughtful reads from across the IP world along with a Bell of the Week that’s well worth revisiting. Bell of the Week: Who Speaks for the Public Domain?  Every now and then, I come across an organisation that makes me pause not because of the number of people it represents or the size of its operations, but because of the