Kluwer Copyright Blog reports that a Danish Court has issued a website blocking ruling concerning the illegal distribution of replica products.
What is particularly interesting - to me, anyway - is that Danish
designers of particularly furniture are facing problems with copyists
making replica products in the UK and selling them over the Internet to
Danish consumers. Is our design law really that pathetic? Yes, and it
has been for years, although for good reason and car manufacturers must
bear most of the blame: but for their excess of enthusiasm for trying to
use copyright to control the spare parts market we might never had had
the 1988 New Deal. Will repealing section 52 (which pre-existed the new
deal, incidentally) make things any better? Perhaps it will bring our
copyright law more in line with continental ones, but as critics of
repeal have pointed out it was part of a sophisticated system of checks
and balances, and removing it will throw the whole system into
confusion.
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