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EU proposal puts confidential communications data at risk.
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| Civil liberties groups La Quadrature du Net, European Digital Rights (EDRi)
| and AK Vorrat are urging the European Parliament to heed advice given by the
| European Data Protection Supervisor Peter Hustinx and scrap plans
| dubbed "voluntary data retention".
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http://www.laquadrature.net/en/eu-proposal-puts-confidential-communications-data-risk
The Publisher's Pushback against NIH's Public Access and Scholarly Publishing
Sustainability
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| The dying light of the George W. Bush presidency was marked by, among other
| things, a legislative move to derail recent gains in the federal government's
| opening of science. In particular, the innocuous sounding “Fair Copyright in
| Research Works Act” (HR 6845) introduced into the House by John Conyers, Jr.
| (DEM-MI), on 9 September 2008 [1] was poised to shut down the National
| Institutes of Health (NIH) Public Access Policy [2], as well as forestall the
| spread of this open-access spirit to other areas of federally sponsored
| research and scholarship. Hearings were held, but the bill did not make it
| through the House. End of story? Not quite.
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http://biology.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pbio.1000030&ct=1
Recent:
Copyright dogmatism ridiculously strikes the European Parliament.
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| Paris, Jan 26th - The European Parliament's committee for legal affairs
| (JURI) voted the Medina report on Copyright last week. This report goes
| against its initial objective to account on the failure of the 2001 copyright
| directive. It only contains ridiculous repressive measures dictated by the
| entertainment industries, and goes as far as denying the Commission's ongoing
| studies. Among its recommendations are "graduated response", content
| filtering, Internet service providers liability, denial of copyright
| exception, etc. It will be up to the Members of European Parliament (MEPs) to
| protect their electors by strongly rejecting this report.
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http://www.laquadrature.net/en/copyright-dogmatism-ridiculously-strikes-european-parliament
Proposed EU Copyright Term Extension Faces Vocal Opposition In Parliament
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| Strong opposition is being voiced by members of the European Parliament over
| plans to extend the copyright protection applying to sound recordings from 50
| to 95 years.
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| Both left and right-leaning Parliament members (MEPs) have signalled that
| they intend to vote against the proposed extension at a crucial meeting of
| the assembly’s legal affairs committee scheduled for 11-12 February,
| rejecting arguments that the move is necessary to guarantee higher pay for
| session musicians.
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http://www.ip-watch.org/weblog/index.php?p=1403
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