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Ancient Books Go Online
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| The BBC is reporting that the United Nations' World Digital Library has gone
| online with an initial offering of 1,200 ancient manuscripts, parchments and
| documents. To no great surprise, Europe comes in first with 380 items. South
| America comes in second with 320, with a very distant third place being given
| to the Middle East at a paltry 157 texts. This is only the initial round, so
| the leader board can be expected to change. There are, for example, a lot of
| Sumerian and Babylonian tablets, many of which are already online elsewhere.
| Astonishingly, the collection is covered by numerous copyright laws,
| according to the legal page. Use of material from a given country is subject
| to whatever restrictions that country places, in addition to any local and
| international copyright laws. With some of the contributions being over 8,000
| years old, this has to be the longest copyright extension ever offered. There
| is nothing on whether the original artists get royalties, however.
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http://tech.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=09/04/22/0243258&from=rss
Will Copyright Law prevent a digital library from becoming reality?
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| Copyright, licensing, and digital rights management are some of the more
| complex issues any future all-digital research library must face. Others
| have tackled this issue in treatises and textbooks. What follows is an
| over-simplified discussion of copyright and licensing and how it relates to
| the feasibility of an all-digital library.
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http://eresearchlibrary.wordpress.com/2009/04/22/will-copyright-law-prevent-a-digital-library-from-becoming-reality/
http://tinyurl.com/dgm4tf
EU votes for longer music copyright
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| The European Parliament has voted 377 to 178 in favour of extended the
| copyright term for new sound recordings from 50 to 70 years. It's only a
| first reading, but it's a strong indication of approval for the bill,
| introduced by Irish MEP Brian Cowley.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/04/23/europe_music_copyright_term/
Recent:
SXSW 2009 on BitTorrent: 6 GB of Free Music
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| The South by Southwest (SXSW) music festival is one of the largest and most
| popular in the United States. For the fifth year in a row, SXSW has released
| a DRM-free, RIAA-safe collection of songs totaling 6 GB, which can all be
| downloaded for free, thanks to BitTorrent.
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http://torrentfreak.com/sxsw-2009-on-bittorrent-6-gb-of-free-music-090312/
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