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Pirate Party UK Officially Registered
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| The UK Pirate Party has been officially registered at the Electoral
| Commission and is hoping to follow in the footsteps of its successful
| counterpart in Sweden. With all the recent controversy surrounding
| anti-piracy legislation and lawyers going after alleged file-sharers, the
| party has become necessity.
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http://torrentfreak.com/pirate-party-uk-officially-registered-090811/
Why the Internet Will Shape Social Values (and not the other way around)
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| If anything, I suspect the internet is going to create a society that is more
| honest and forgiving. We will be returning to a world of thin anonymity - a
| world where it is difficult to escape from the choices you've made in the
| past. But the result won't be a world where fewer people take risks, it will
| be a world that recognizes those risks were necessary and expected.
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http://eaves.ca/2009/08/11/why-the-internet-will-shape-social-values-and-not-the-other-way-around/
Recent:
Author Using Questionable Copying Claim Against Twilight Author For Publicity
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| Shouldn't there be sanctions for abusing copyright law to file bogus lawsuits
| just to get some press for your book?
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090806/1917485794.shtml
Canadians: Please make your voice heard today on copyright law
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| The Canadian government has set up an online public consultation process to
| revise its copyright policy, running until September 13, 2009. If you live in
| Canada, now is your chance to take back your copyright law.
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http://www.fsf.org/blogs/community/canadian-copyright-consultation
Green party defends P2P legalization, collective licensing scheme
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| The German Green party has defended the idea of a "culture flat rate" to pay
| for a legalization of file sharing, according to a report from heise.de.
| Germany's Greens have been proposing collective licensing in combination with
| the legalization of non-commercial file sharing for a while, and party
| officials recently came out to defend the idea against critics from other
| parties as well as industry associations.
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http://www.p2p-blog.com/item-1132.html
Canadian copyright collecting agency subverting open debate on copyright
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| Access Copyright, the Canadian author's collecting society (a group that
| collects money from libraries for book lending and gives it to authors) is
| using its members' money to sabotage an enormously popular consultation on
| the future of Canadian copyright.
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| [...]
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| As a Canadian author, Access Copyright is supposed to represent my interests
| in the Canadian copyright debate. Instead, they are setting out to undermine
| the first glimmer of sanity in Canadian copyright policy in three
| governments -- and using my money to do it. For shame.
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http://www.boingboing.net/2009/07/29/canadian-copyright-c-1.html
BNN Trying To Silence The Canadian Copyright Debate?
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| Given the above evidence one can only assume that The Business News Networkâs
| intended goal is to silence the debate surrounding Canadian copyright reform
| by suppressing the rebroadcast of clips which may be unfavourable for
| industry lobby groups.
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http://www.ccer.ca/canadian-copyright-reform/bnn-trying-to-silence-the-canadian-copyright-debate/
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/
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