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â Digital Liberty Activism
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| In my interview in this episode, I focused on
| digital liberty issues, which I believe to be
| hugely important and becoming more so every
| day. If youâre ready to find out more about
| the issues I discussed, hereâs a quick guide
| along with hints on taking action. I mentioned
| writing to your MP and MEP â thereâs an
| encouraging guide to read if the idea makes
| you nervous.
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http://webmink.com/2010/03/31/digital-activism/
Whatâs Yours Is Ours
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| You'll have heard of the Digital Economy Bill:
| it introduces powers to cut your Internet
| connection if you're caught illegally
| downloading films, music or software. It does
| more than that. It takes your photographs from
| you, too.
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| Until now, if someone found one of your
| photographs and wanted to use it commercially,
| they couldn't without first asking you. Clause
| 43 changes all that by allowing the use of
| âOrphan Worksâ - photographs, illustrations
| and other artworks whose owners cannot be
| found.
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http://stop43.org.uk/pages/read_more.html
Recent:
The Digital Economy Bill: A taxation on salt
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| MPs have the opportunity now to take the
| Digital Economy Bill in wash-up and do just
| what a wash-up implies: clean it out. If
| they donât, and if lobbies like BPI get
| their way, weâre in for a satyagraha.
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http://confusedofcalcutta.com/2010/03/29/the-digital-economy-bill-a-taxation-on-salt/
Lib Dems to fight Digital Economy Bill over 'wash-up'
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| The Liberal Democrats will try to block the
| Digital Economy Bill from being fast-
| tracked into law before the election.
|
| On Tuesday afternoon, the party's chief
| whip Paul Burstow tweeted that he had told
| the government the Liberal Democrats will
| not support the bill as it is drafted
| because there is "not enough time for MPs
| to examine it in detail".
|
| The bill is expected to be become part of
| 'wash-up', a brief period at the end of a
| sitting parliament when outstanding
| legislation becomes the subject of back-
| room deals between the main two parties,
| the Conservatives and Labour.
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http://www.zdnet.co.uk/news/regulation/2010/03/30/lib-dems-to-fight-digital-economy-bill-over-wash-up-40088498/
7 days to stop the Bill!
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| ORG and 38 Degrees are pushing to get
| national advertising placed just before the
| debate on Tuesday next week: when
| Parliament will, in effect, allow the Bill
| to be passed into âwash upâ without proper
| democratic scrutiny, denying us a national
| discussion about the rights and wrongs of
| this Bill.
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http://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/2010/7-days-to-stop-the-bill
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