Hi Folks,

If you’ve visited Exclusive Rights recently outside of your feed reader, you may have noticed that the site has suffered a redesign by my not so able hands. One of the new features that may be of use is a widget on the right hand side of the site that allows you to search recent copyright decisions without having to run a search on the court dockets themselves.

If you’re like me, visiting the individual dockets and entering search limitations is a little bothersome.  The widget should — should being the operative word — automatically update the date field for the dockets that require you to limit searches, namely the UK/ECJ and Canada. I’ve included links to all of the major English language dockets except for India, which I’m still having trouble navigating, and the U.S., where you’re relegated to pay sites. I haven’t as of yet been able to get an automatic search to work with SSRN, so if any of you are able to code an end-around, please let me know.

If you have comments concerning errors, sources that should be added, or suggestions, don’t be a stranger. I’ve included the widget below so that you can take a test drive.

Yours in solidarity.

• Southern African Legal Institute [Copyright decisions sorted by most recent.  Includes decisions from Botswana, Kenya, Lesotho, Madagascar, Malawi, Mauritius, Mozambique, Namibia, Seychelles, South Africa, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia, and Zimbabwe.]

• WorldLII Databases [Copyright decisions sorted by most recent.]

• Canada Federal Court docket [Copyright decisions from the last two months.]

• Hong Kong Judiciary [Copyright decisions sorted by most recent.]

• Singapore Law Watch [Recent decisions labeled by subject matter; you can use CRTL+F to skip to the copyright cases.]

• BAILII UK Database [Copyright decisions from the last month sorted by relevance; cases with over 7% relevance are usually copyright cases. Contains decisions from England and Whales, Ireland, Scotland, and the ECJ.]

• Copyright news via Google [Last 24 hours.]

• Social Science Resource Network Abstract Search [You have to enter "copyright," limit date and search.]

• Westlaw Patent Briefs Update [Contains many U.S. Supreme Court copyright filings.]