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EC misleading EU on copyright extension, says boffin
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| A leading academic has warned that the European Commission "wilfully ignored"
| studies that it paid for whose conclusions disagreed with its policy, and
| that the Commission is misleading the European Union Council, Parliament and
| citizens over copyright extension.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2008/08/26/european_commission_eu_copyright_letter/
Number 10: The same thing twice?
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| I was looking about on-line the other day just following my (rather large)
| nose around the ‘Anthony Baggett’s theme being used by Number 10 Downing
| Street’ story. And I came across something I don’t really understand. Perhaps
| others might be able to shed some light on what might be going on here?
|
| Let’s start with the background: Number 10’s Website, is using a look and
| feel derived from an original theme by Anthony called NetWorker. The way we
| know this is by the header that was left in the main stylesheet and almost
| every other file from Anthony’s original package being left in tact on the
| server.
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http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/08/25/number-10-the-same-thing-twice/
Recent:
Timber! (More on Number 10’s website)
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| So, out of 24 files in the original theme package, only three files have been
| removed. If you look here in the comments from my post of yesterday, you can
| read what Dave Smith of NMM said:
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| 1. The only file that was drawn upon from Ant’s theme was the css file.
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| Now clearly some of the files above will be pre-requisites for any Wordpress
| theme (like index.php for example) but 21 out of 24?.
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| I’m sure I can smell something quite smelly around here.
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http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/08/22/timber-more-on-number-10/
British authorities lost memory stick containing information about dangerous
criminals
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| This stick apparently contains unencrypted information on numerous
| incarcerated criminals in England and Wales.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/114704
British Government Violates Copyright
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| As much as I utterly despise the entire premise of Intellectual Monopoly,
| this is about violating the principles of a Free License, and if it's good
| enough for the British government to violate our civil rights in the name of
| Intellectual Monopoly, then it's good enough for the Free World to protect
| its "property" (in fact Freedom) too…
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http://slated.org/british_government_violates_copyright
UK government stole website theme
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| NUMBER 10, the UK Prime Minister's website, is apparently built using a
| design it nicked.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/08/18/uk-government-stole-website
Number 10 and the Creative Commons
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| I can only assume that Number 10 have requested, and received, permission of
| the author to remove all traces of this license and attribution from their
| Wordpress site. I have left a “contact us message” at the author’s website to
| see if this is the case…
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| [Update] Anthony Baggett, the theme’s author, has just confirmed that No 10
| have not requested that the attribution be removed. That’s not playing fair
| by my book.
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http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/08/18/number-10-and-the-creative-commons/
More on Number 10’s website fiasco
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| The original stylesheet4 is 612 lines in length and is 9234 bytes in size
| (9KB).
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| The modified stylesheet5 is 3826 lines long and weighs in at a frankly
| astonishing 63724 bytes (63KB)!
|
| [...]
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| “If” the developers have modified the Wordpress engine, as is being suggested
| as a possibility here, and then sold it to the Government, in my humble
| understanding that means they have distributed their modifications. That
| means those modifications must also be licensed under the GPL. I had a quick
| look on New Media Maze’s web site and couldn’t find an area for software
| downloads or mention of the GPL. That doesn’t say anything to be honest and
| there might be nothing to this, but it would be interesting to find out a bit
| more… Is there a real Wordpress guru who can look at the “footprint” of the
| XHTML the site generates and tell if it is different? Or are there any other
| ways to tell if it has been modified?
|
| Anyway, what a wheez this all is for us bloggers: It just isn’t Gordon’s year
| is it…
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http://www.theopensourcerer.com/2008/08/18/more-on-number-10/
US presidential candidate is a pirate
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| THE PRESUMED Republican US presidential candidate John McCain favours
| draconian copyright enforcement, except when his own election campaign uses
| other people's music.
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http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2008/08/16/gop-presidential-candidate
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