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No FT, No Idea
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| Copyright is supposed to provide an *incentive* to create, not a *reward* for
| having created. Increasing the term of copyright protection will not suddenly
| make ageing rockers more creative. Moreover, the prospect of an extra 45
| years' protection is highly unlikely to make young rockers rush out and
| create more. So this is a pure loss for the public domain. Thanks for
| nothing, Charlie.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2008/07/no-ft-no-idea.html
DMCA...
Software patents...
Copyrights...
Snooping...
Mccreevy seems to think that assimilation to the Bush administration is
something to be proud of. Lessig should keep an eye on him too.
Here's something for the British Librarisoft to keep an eye on:
Study: Reform copyright law to save digital works
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| Although digital works are ubiquitous and easily duplicated, they also are
| ephemeral and are at risk of disappearing unless preservation efforts begin
| soon after they are created, according to a study by the Library of Congress
| and three international partners.
|
| [...]
|
| Libraries, archives and other institutions currently are hampered in
| preserving these materials by copyright laws geared toward more persistent,
| physical works. The study recommended that laws permit preservation
| institutions to preserve works according to international best practices,
| which includes making copies for administrative and technical purposes,
| migrating works to different formats as technology changes, and maintaining
| backup copies in multiple institutions to protect against catastrophic loss.
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http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/46644-1.html
Related:
EU Internal Market and Services: Legislative strategy
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| Commissioner Charlie McCreevy has chosen...
|
| [...]
|
| Work continues on the patent litigation system and on the Community patent.
| Since the Commission adopted the Communication "Enhancing a patent system in
| Europe" in April 2007, it has been actively working towards a consensus on
| the key elements among Member States in the Council under the German,
| Portuguese and Slovenian Presidency in the Council.
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http://www.baltic-course.com/eng/eu_baltics/?doc=2974
The British Library - "The world's knowledge" DRM'd and for a price
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| DRM is part of the plan, and I encourage you to read the entire Microsoft
| document. It would make my grandmother roll over in her grave. Some of the
| librarians at the British Library are deeply troubled too about what DRM is
| doing to libraries. How will we access the materials if the DRM company goes
| out of business someday?
|
| If they duplicate what they have done at the British Library, I think it's
| fair to say that it is the death of public libraries as we have known them,
| and the world's knowledge will be available only DRM'd and for a price.
|
| P.S. DRM doesn't work.
| It won't block any serious criminals.
| All it does is annoy and degrade the honest
| ... and give monopolies a way to stay that way.
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http://www.groklaw.net/article.php?story=20060317044847293
Term Extension “will damage Commission’s reputation”, top legal advisers tell
Barroso
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| Today, the leading European centres for intellectual property research have
| released a joint letter to EU Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso,
| enclosing an impact assessment detailing the far reaching and negative
| effects of the proposal to extend the term of copyright in sound recordings.
| [...] “This Copyright Extension Directive, proposed by Commissioner Mccreevy,
| is likely to damage seriously the reputation of the Commission..."
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http://www.openrightsgroup.org/2008/06/18/term-extension-will-damage-commissions-reputation-top-legal-advisers-tell-barroso/
[ffii] McCreevy wants to legalise Software Patents via a US-EU patent treaty
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| Brussels, 13 May 2008 -- European Commissioner McCreevy is pushing for a
| bilateral patent treaty with the United States. This Tuesday 13 May in
| Brussels, White House and European representatives will try to adopt a
| tight roadmap for the signature of a EU-US patent treaty by the end of
| the year. Parts of the proposed treaty will contain provision on
| software patents, and could legalise them on both sides of the Atlantic.
|
| "TEC talks are the current push for software patents. The US want to
| eliminate the higher standards of the European Patent Convention. The
| bilateral agenda is dictated by multinationals gathered in the
| Transatlantic Economic Business Dialogue (TABD). When you have a look
| who is in the Executive Board of the TABD, you find not a single
| European SME in there", says Benjamin Henrion, a Brussels based patent
| policy specialist.
|
| The Transatlantic Economic Council (TEC) which comprises EU and US high
| level representatives put a substantive harmonisation of patent law on
| its agenda. Substantive patent law covers what is patentable or not. The
| attempt to impose the low US standards on Europe via the Substantive
| Patent Law Treaty (SPLT) process utterly failed at the World
| Intellectual Property Organisation. Also progress in the WIPO B+
| subgroup (without development nations) could not be reached.
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http://lwn.net/Articles/282000/
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