Showing posts with label Wales. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Wales. Show all posts

Saturday, September 12, 2026

Library books overdue by 116 years returned in 'excellent condition'; BBC Wales, September 10, 2026

"A man has returned his late grandfather's library books which were overdue by 116 years.

Peter O'Sullivan's grandfather, Walter Griffith Owen, took out Milton's Paradise Lost and Shakespeare's King Lear in 1910." 

Tuesday, June 23, 2020

United States: Welsh Government Not Immune from Copyright Lawsuit for Using Dylan Thomas Photos in Tourism Ads; Library of Congress Law, June 23, 2020

Library of Congress Law; United States: Welsh Government Not Immune from Copyright Lawsuit for Using Dylan Thomas Photos in Tourism Ads

"On June 8, 2020, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirmed a lower court decision that the Welsh government is not immune under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities Act (FSIA) from a private lawsuit alleging claims of copyright infringement because of the commercial-activity exception to the FSIA. (Pablo Star Ltd. v. Welsh Government, No. 19-1262, slip op. (June 8, 2020).)"