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In “Unique Idea of Festival Ownership” the Scotsman interviews Pete Irvine, who runs an Edinburgh based events firm, on his new approach to ownership of the events that his company creates:
After years of creating festivals and events through his Edinburgh-based firm, including the city’s famous Hogmanay celebrations, Irvine feels that the time has come for […]

Money-must it buy all I can get now
Money-without it how far will I get now
Money, Honey, hold it you’d be losing my respect now.
Scottish band Bay City Rollers is suing Arista over royalties in Federal Court in New York. The damages are unspecified, but the band believes that it is owed millions. [Link].

There is a story in yesterday’s Scotsman about the increase in mediation in Scotland. It is a profile on advocate John Sturrock QC and his mediation firm Core Solutions, which offers mediation services. One comparative aspect caught my eye:
He says the use of mediation in corporate and business matters has grown dramatically in Scotland […]

This interview serves as a reminder that it isn’t just having IP laws, but a structure and climate to encourage businesses to create the IP in the first place, that is important to growth. The Scotsman has an interview with Aisling Burnand of the BioIndustry Association, in which she mentions the need for government support […]

Scottish firm Burness added a new partner — Colin Hulme — to the contentious side of its IP practice. [Herald].
From the story, Burness Chairman Philip Rodney mentions:
Colin and I developed a ground-breaking database that is capable of marshalling enormous amounts of information for big commercial cases.
Or at least I had the idea, and Colin put […]

The theme of the night’s discussion among leading academics, lawyers, and representatives ranging from the Federation Against Copyright Theft to Scotland’s small business interests was that the Gowers report was plagued by a lack of supporting evidence and little thinking about the practical side of the reforms that it espoused. The meeting, entitled ‘The Gowers […]

The AHRC Research Centre (aka my employer) are hosting an Open Forum entitled Gowers Review of Intellectual Property: Challenges for Scotland, discussing, funnily enough, The Gowers Review of Intellectual Property. The event goes from 6-8pm on Wednesday 7th February in Lecture Theatre 175 in Old College.
Gowers, in the report, asks for (possibly) statutory damages:
Recommendation 38: […]