Fran Nevrkla Identifies a Copyright Gap
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| The support for Commissioner McCreevy came from the French President Nicolas
| Sarkozy. Soon after taking office, he set up a commission, led by the head of
| the major retail chain FNAC, to look into copyright and the creative
| industries. Alongside recommendations on ISP responsibility, the commission
| proposed extending copyright and this will be on the agenda when the French
| Government assumes the Presidency of the European Union in July this year.
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http://blog.copyrightalliance.org/blog/Fran-Nevrkla-Identifies-a-Copyright-Gap
History suggests copyright crusade is a lost cause
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| The scarcity argument focuses on the efficient use of existing resources. In
| contrast, the reward argument focuses on the creation of new resources. It
| says that people will under-produce valuable resources if they aren't allowed
| to keep what they produce. For example, a farmer is far less likely to plant
| crops in the spring if he won't be able to prevent others from harvesting
| them in the fall.
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http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/copyright-crusade.ars
Time for an open government to have the likes of Sarkozy exposed. New petition
is up:
Open Parliament
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| Join 439 Europeans in signing our petition.
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| Citizens and stakeholder groups should not have to use the software of a
| single company in order to communicate with their elected officials or
| participate in the legislative process.
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http://www.openparliament.eu/
Related:
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| [Nicolas] Sarkozy and his family have been vacationing at
| a lakefront estate in Wolfeboro owned by former Microsoft Corp. executive
| Michael Appe.
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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/20137506/
Is Sarko Uxorious?
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| What this neglects to take into account is the fact that falling into the
| public domain is a gain for the public - and hence the actual moment when it
| becomes part of the "national pop heritage" - and that the gain vastly
| outweighs any minimal effect it has on ageing rockers' royalties.
| Unfortunately, with this action, as with others (including the "three strikes
| and you're out" approach to fighting filesharing), Sarkozy shows himself to
| be an old man - however young his new wife may be.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2008/02/is-sarko-uxorious.html
http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=5jkZFIwmc-8
Lessig: Required Reading: the next 10 years
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| Yet governments continue to push ahead with this idiot idea -- both Britain
| and Japan for example are considering extending existing terms. Why?
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| The answer is a kind of corruption of the political process. Or better,
| a "corruption" of the political process. I don't mean corruption in the
| simple sense of bribery. I mean "corruption" in the sense that the
| system is so queered by the influence of money that it can't even get
| an issue as simple and clear as term extension right.
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http://www.lessig.org/blog/archives/003800.shtml#003800
RIAA, MPAA urge pro-copyright vows from presidential candidates
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| One question, for instance, asks: "How would you promote the progress of
| science and creativity, as enumerated in the U.S. Constitution, by upholding
| and strengthening copyright law and preventing its diminishment?"
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http://www.news.com/8301-10784_3-9821141-7.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
France set to experience a revolution in public broadcast television
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| French president Nicolas Sarkozy wants to ban advertising on public
| television and replace the income stream with a tax on mobile phones and
| Internet accounts. "Our national television must provide quality and access
| to culture; it must not be shaped solely by commercial considerations," said
| Sarkozy in Paris on Tuesday.
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http://www.heise.de/english/newsticker/news/101533/from/rss09
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