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Radio-Canada Issues YouTube Takedown Over Harper Communion Video
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| News organizations depend upon fair dealing every day for their own coverage
| and should not be so quick to demand takedowns of newsworthy clips that
| should qualify for similar protection.
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http://www.michaelgeist.ca/content/view/4117/125/
YouTube Takedown Again Being Used To Try To Block Newsworthy Content
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| As Michael Gesit points out, it's difficult to see what the copyright claim
| is, as the clip itself can be considered newsworthy and "fair dealing"
| (Canada uses "fair dealing" rules rather than "fair use") for others to show
| it.
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090709/1848305503.shtml
European Publishers Call on E.U. to Protect Copyright
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| Leading European newspaper and magazine publishers on Thursday called on the
| European Commission to strengthen copyright protection as a way to lay the
| groundwork for new ways to generate revenue online.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/07/10/technology/internet/10copyright.html?_r=1&partner=rss&emc=rss
Viviane Reding on filesharing
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| Rubbish. Either you have a fundamental right to use the Internet, in which
| case you can upload and downloaf information from it (which is basically all
| the Internet does). Or you don’t have such a right, im which case the state,
| at the behest of the content corporations, can cut off your Internet access
| if you shasre files. You can’t have it both ways.
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http://cabalamat.wordpress.com/2009/07/10/viviane-reding-on-filesharing/
Recent:
What do the EU results and Pirate Party mean for digital rights?
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| Stand back from the media frenzy concentrating on Labour’s woes for a moment,
| and ask yourself what these elections mean for digital rights.
|
| Several parties that broadly supported digital rights concerns did well in
| this election, including, in the UK, UKIP and the Greens. The Liberal
| Democrats also had a fair showing.
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http://www.openrightsgroup.org/2009/06/what-do-the-eu-results-and-pirate-party-mean-for-digital-rights/
The Pirate Party
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| The Pirate Party has a constructive and reasoned proposal for an alternative
| to pharmaceutical patents. It would not only solve these problems, but also
| give more money to pharmaceutical research, while still cutting public
| spending on medicines in half. This is something we would like to discuss on
| a European level.
|
| Patents in other areas range from the morally repulsive (like patents on
| living organisms) through the seriously harmful (patents on software and
| business methods) to the merely pointless (patents in the mature
| manufacturing industries).
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| Europe has all to gain and nothing to lose by abolishing patents outright. If
| we lead, the rest of the world will eventually follow.
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http://www.piratpartiet.se/international/english
Universities Cope with New Anti-Piracy Requirement
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| Reis' headaches began at the end of last summer, just after President Bush
| signed into law the Higher Education Opportunity Act, the first
| reauthorization of the Higher Education Act since 1998. The act included
| several new provisions, but the one that has Reis and others on college
| campuses concerned is a new requirement that schools ensure they are doing
| all they can to combat illegal file sharing among students.
|
| [...]
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| Reis estimates he will spend approximately $100,000 implementing new hardware
| and software in order to be in compliance with the regulation. But figuring
| out exactly what is needed is not easy. The HEOA is still in the negotiated
| rulemaking process, so the exact language and interpretation from the
| Department of Education is still forthcoming.
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http://www.networkworld.com/news/2009/061509-universities-cope-with-new-anti-piracy.html
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