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EU Rejects Copyright Extension... For Now
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| Following the recent debates on copyright extension, there's a bit of good
| news. It appears that the Council of the European Union rejected yet another
| attempt to extend the copyright on sound recordings from 50 to 95 years.
| Unfortunately, it doesn't sound like this is (by any means) the end of such
| proposals.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090328/1446094291.shtml
The Pirate Bay punts BitTorrent cloaking device
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| The Pirate Bay's swashbuckling Swedes have launched their very own VPN
| service, hoping to combat a new Swedish law that would force ISPs to cough up
| the personal details of suspected copyright infringers.
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http://www.theregister.co.uk/2009/03/27/pirate_bay_spn/
Recent:
Music copyright to be extended to 95 years
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| Copyright term for music recordings must be extended from 50 years to 95
| years, says legislation approved on Thursday by the Legal Affairs Committee.
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| Increasing the term of copyright protection would ensure that performers and
| producers continue to receive royalties for 95 years from the first
| publication or performance of their song, according to a Commission proposal
| backed by the committee.
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http://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/expert/infopress_page/058-48812-040-02-07-909-20090209IPR48791-09-02-2009-2009-false/default_en.htm
Does ACTA Secrecy Violate European Law?
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| One of the most problematic aspects of the negotiations around ACTA, the
| Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement, is how the entire process has been
| shrouded in secrecy. Those involved in the process try to brush off this
| complaint by saying something along the lines of "but we always negotiate
| treaties this way!" but that's hardly a good reason to do so -- especially
| when the impact of ACTA could be wide ranging.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090114/1056313412.shtml
the fight against term extension, continued (in Europe)
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| Here's 4:51 from the Open Rights Group on the proposal to extend the
| copyright term for sound recordings in Europe. (Recall, we extended our term
| to match the Europeans, but then, surprise surprise, we actually overshot the
| Europeans in important categories, leading the Europeans now to argue they
| need to extend the term to match the Americans.)
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http://www.lessig.org/blog/2009/01/the_fight_against_term_extensi.html
ACTA Negotiators Hold Closed Door Meeting To Say They Need To Be More
Transparent
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| One of our biggest complaints with ACTA, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade
| Agreement that was initially written by the entertainment industry, and is
| being used to effectively sneak through new copyright law requirements around
| the world (every time you hear an industry supporter claim that copyright
| laws must be changed to live up to "international obligations" you know
| they're leaving out the part where it was the same industry that wrote those
| international treaties), is that the whole thing is being negotiated in
| secret.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20081221/1552013181.shtml
EU Council refuses to release secret ACTA documents
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| Heaven forbid that these consumers turn out to be also citizens that want to
| have a say in what their buying power is being exchanged for. After all, they
| might think that criminalising themselves in case they put a home movie of
| their children dancing to Britney Spears' latest song on Youtube might not be
| such a good idea. Paying higher subscription fees for Internet access so that
| Internet Service Providers can install filtering devices resulting in lower
| speeds and censored web access may not sound very attractive either. And
| neither does giving patent trolls free reign, with compliments of the various
| governments.
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http://press.ffii.org/Press_releases/EU_Council_refuses_to_release_secret_ACTA_documents
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