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Whatever Happened to Amendment 138?
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| Looking at the final versions of the five amended EU Directives that form the
| Telecoms Package, it seems that yes, Amendment 138 (which made sanctions
| against 'unlawful content' subject to due process of law) has indeed
| disappeared. But so have some elements of another part of the Package that
| said that national telecoms regulators should regulate lawful and unlawful
| content. What was particularly worrying about those provisions was that they
| referred to another part of the Package that mandated co-operation between
| national regulators and telecoms industry providers - i.e. ISPs and the big
| telecoms carriers.
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http://lawclanger.blogspot.com/2008/11/whatever-happened-to-amendment-138.html
The BBC defends the copyrights cartel (maximalists):
The BBC Blows it Again
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| The BBC has sunk to new depths of sloppy reporting by failing even to mention
| why there might be another side to this story - choosing, instead, to peddle
| the musicians' sob-story...
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2008/11/bbc-blows-it-again.html
Recent:
750,000 lost jobs? The dodgy digits behind the war on piracy
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| First, the estimate of 750,000 jobs lost. (Is that supposed to be per year? A
| cumulative total over some undefined span? Those who cite the figure seldom
| say.) Customs is most often given as the source for this, and indeed, you can
| find press releases from as recently as 2002 giving that figure as a U.S.
| Customs and Border Patrol estimate. Eureka! But when we contacted CBP to
| determine how they had arrived at that imposing figure, we were informed that
| it was, in essence, a goof. The figure, Customs assured us, came from
| somewhere else, and was mistakenly described as the agency's own. This should
| come as no great surprise: CBP is an enforcement agency, whereas calculating
| the total loss of jobs from IP infringement would require some terrifyingly
| complex counterfactual modeling by trained economists. Similar claims have
| appeared in Customs releases dating back at least to 1993, but a CBP
| spokesperson assured us that the agency has never been in the business of
| developing such estimates in-house.
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http://arstechnica.com/articles/culture/dodgy-digits-behind-the-war-on-piracy.ars
Judge halts sales of RealDVD
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| Representatives from the MPAA and RealNetworks could not be reached Sunday.
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http://news.cnet.com/8301-1023_3-10058574-93.html?part=rss&subj=news&tag=2547-1_3-0-20
Music stars unite to seek control
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| UK pop and rock stars are taking action to try to gain ownership and control
| of their work from record labels.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/7652053.stm
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
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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