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Will EU lawyers white-out Amendment 138?
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| EU lawyers say that Amendment 138 has to
| go because of a legal technical problem.
| And they insist on a poor replacement
| that will do nothing to stop the
| imposition of copyright enforcement
| measures. Given that we know the
| political agenda for both copyright and
| Internet restrictions, shouldn't they do
| better?
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http://www.iptegrity.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=420&Itemid=9
Telephone Company Is Arm of Government, Feds Admit in Spy Suit
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| The Department of Justice has finally
| admitted it in court papers: The nationâs
| telecom companies are an arm of the
| government â at least when it comes to
| secret spying.
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http://www.wired.com/threatlevel/2009/10/att-doj-foia/
How I got an apology from the Met for my unlawful arrest
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| On 28th July 2005, I was unlawfully
| arrested at Southwark tube station when
| attempting to take the tube after work to
| meet my wife. Chief Superintendent Wayne
| Chance, Metropolitan Police Service
| Borough Commander for Southwark, has
| eventually apologised to my wife and I for
| their actions and the trauma it caused us.
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http://www.opendemocracy.net/blog/ourkingdom/david-mery/2009/10/09/how-i-got-an-apology-from-the-met-for-my-unlawful-arrest
Recent:
Copyright Control
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| The Digital Millennium Copyright Act is, without
| question, one of the most frequently abused laws on the
| books. If the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act is the catch-
| all for internet crime, the DMCA is ten times over for
| copyright law. If you want something off the internet,
| the quickest way to be rid of it is to issue a DMCA
| notice, regardless of whether there is any basis for it
| or not, and that's exactly what companies like Autodesk
| do. There is recourse, however: Anyone who knowingly
| misrepresents that an infringement has occurred, or
| falsely represents that a take down was the result of a
| mistake, is liable for damages for their conduct.
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http://www.linuxjournal.com/content/copyright-control
A Harvard Skirmish in the Copyright Wars
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| Problem is, thereâs an argument that what professors say
| in class is their intellectual property. After all, if
| they just read their own lecture notes, then their words
| have been âfixed in a tangible medium,â to quote the
| Copyright Act. So the professor automatically holds the
| copyright, and Magliozzi, or his note-taking helpers,
| are violating it. By that logic, itâs the same thing as
| listening to a song being sung, transcribing it, and
| posting the notes and lyrics on your web site. Copyright
| violation.
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http://www.bitsbook.com/2009/09/a-harvard-skirmish-in-the-copyright-wars/
CBS Removes David Lettermanâs Mea Culpa From YouTube
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| The network did not post official copies of the segment
| on CBS.com or on YouTube, proving that while media
| companies are now generally eager to distribute their
| material on the Web, there are still some TV moments
| they would rather not spread widely.
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| In a remarkable 10-minute segment Thursday night, Mr.
| Letterman told viewers of a Connecticut manâs suspected
| $2 million extortion attempt, predicated on evidence of
| Mr. Lettermanâs sexual relationships with female
| employees. The suspect, Robert Joel Halderman of CBS
| News, was arrested Thursday and released on bail Friday.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2009/10/05/business/media/05letterman.html?_r=1
China Cracks Down On Pirated Teaching Materials?
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| It's unclear how cheaper or even free teaching materials "harm"
| youth, but the speculation is that it's more about the government
| not liking the content than any real worry about "piracy."
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http://techdirt.com/articles/20090916/0211316207.shtml
Pirated Teaching Materials Threaten Health of Chinaâs Youth
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| Chinaâs Anti-Pornography and Anti-Illegal Publications Office has
| booked a huge victory by preventing the countryâs youth from
| accessing more than 4 million copies of pirated teaching
| materials. According to the vice director of the office, such
| materials âharm the healthy development of the countryâs youth.â
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http://torrentfreak.com/pirated-teaching-materials-threaten-health-of-chinas-youth-090915/
Wolfram Alpha Does Not Understand Copyright
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| Copyright, as Wolfram seems not to understand, is a bargain between creators
| and their public. As an incentive to create, the former are given a
| time-limited monopoly by governments. Note that it is not a reward for
| having created: it is an incentive to create again.
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http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/08/wolfram-alpha-does-not-understand.html
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