____/ The Ghost In The Machine on Wednesday 02 January 2008 17:23 : \____
>> German Supreme Court rejects copyright fee for printers
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>> | Printer manufacturer Hewlett-Packard has announced that the German Supreme
>> | Court ruled in a hearing that the firm will not have to pay a flat fee to
>> | German copyright collective VG Wort to cover copyrights.
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>> http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/100227/from/rss09
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> Why HP announces this is far from clear to me. Shouldn't this have been
> announced by governmental media?
>
> Still, good for HP; they'll not have to pay that fee.
Maybe they should start extra-charging OpenOffice.org because people can type
suicide letters using that software, which then costs insurance companies some
money. The madness of this!
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