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Mercury is finally out of the microwave, just as summer reaches its peak. The IPKat, meanwhile, has found the perfect balance between business and pleasure, keeping one paw firmly on the latest IP developments while still making the most of the season. Here is what you may have missed.
Copyright
Katfriend Seun Lari-Williams
examined the recent parliamentary scrutiny of Nigeria's copyright licensing system, looking at how the country's collective management landscape is holding up against growing pressure for reform and greater transparency.
Katfriend Chloe Lake-Jones
explored the increasingly productive relationship between music and video games, reviewing the conditions under which that combination has become a genuine engine of creative and commercial value, and what this means for the copyright frameworks that sit underneath it.
Patents
Katfriend Earl Nied
argued that FRAND licensing discussions consistently skip past one of the most important variables in SEP analysis: time. Drawing on data from the VIA Licensing Alliance's AVC/H.264 patent pool, he showed that most listed entries have already expired, and that any proportionality analysis that treats the patent landscape as fixed is likely to misstate either past or current exposure.
IP News and Events
Eleonora Rosati
rounded up the week's IP snippets in Friday Fantasies, with the usual mix of upcoming events, notable developments and reading for the weekend.
