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When using open source makes you an enemy of the state
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| The US copyright lobby has long argued
| against open source software - now
| Indonesia's in the firing line for
| encouraging the idea in government
| departments
|
| It's only Tuesday and already it's been an
| interesting week for the world of digital
| rights. Not only did the British government
| changed the wording around its
| controversial 'three strikes' proposals,
| but the secretive anti-counterfeiting
| treaty, Acta, was back in the headlines.
| Meanwhile, a US judge is still deliberating
| over the Google book settlement.
|
| As if all that wasn't enough, here's
| another brick to add to the teetering tower
| of news, courtesy of Andres Guadamuz, a
| lecturer in law at the University of
| Edinburgh.
|
| Guadamuz has done some digging and
| discovered that an influential lobby group
| is asking the US government to basically
| consider open source as the equivalent of
| piracy - or even worse.
|
| What?
|
| It turns out that the International
| Intellectual Property Alliance, an umbrella
| group for organisations including the MPAA
| and RIAA, has requested with the US Trade
| Representative to consider countries like
| Indonesia, Brazil and India for its
| "Special 301 watchlist" because they use
| open source software.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2010/feb/23/opensource-intellectual-property
Recent:
No end in sight for 50-year copyright levies war
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| It is another change of tactics in a war
| that has been going on for 50 years. This
| week, consumer electronics companies led by
| Apple, HP, Sony, Panasonic and Research In
| Motion, broke off the latest round of talks
| to reform the Europeâs convoluted system of
| private copy levies.
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http://blogs.ft.com/techblog/2010/01/no-end-in-sight-for-50-year-copyright-levies-war/
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