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Intl Business-Business-The Times of India:
Possibly emboldened by the recent visit of US president Barack Obama, Internet giant Google has managed to hold out in the battle with an organization of Chinese writers accusing it of copyright violations. (Read More)
The Guardian:
Digital economy bill proposals receive welcome from music and film, but anger from ISPs and privacy campaignersThe government's planned crackdown on unlawful online filesharing has been attacked by privacy campaigners and int (Read More)
The Guardian:
Denuclearisation will only come when bridges have been built with Pyongyang and it feels firmly set on a new economic courseNegotiations over the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula look set to resume. Sadly, they are un (Read More)
The Guardian:
Stephen Timms claims piracy powers necessary to 'future-proof' government proposals to safeguard the UK's creative industriesRead the government's statement on the billRead the digital economy billStephen Timms, the Treasury (Read More)
Boing Boing:
Fred von Lohmann, the chief copyright counsel at the Electronic Frontier Foundation, has been doing an amazing job of analyzing the latest draft of the Google Book Search settlement, really making the legalese clear for the r (Read More)
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Boing Boing:
The British government has brought down its long-awaited Digital Economy Bill, and it's perfectly useless and terrible. It consists almost entirely of penalties for people who do things that upset the entertainment industry ( (Read More)
EFF.org Updates:
This is the third in a series of posts about the proposed Google Book Search settlement.Now that we've described the proposed settlement agreement's biggest potential upside for the public—expanded online access to books, par (Read More)
ResourceShelf:
From the Announcement:A year after its launch by 25 leading U.S. research libraries, HathiTrust Digital Library announces a service that will transform how researchers use the more than 1.6 billion pages (4.6 million volumes) (Read More)
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Libraries And Librarians,
Library Technology
ReadWriteWeb:
In the wake of a leak of an international trade agreement on online file-sharing and copyright violation, U.S. House representatives are introducing legislation to curtail the greatest of American freedoms: the illegal downlo (Read More)
Guardian Unlimited: Technology:
Following on from the story earlier today about Lord Mandelson's plans to get an amendment made to the Copyright, Designs and Patents Act (CDPA) of 1988 that would allow him - or any future secretary of state for industry - t (Read More)
EFF.org Updates:
In the UK, the Labour administration's impatience to pass its "Digital Economy" agenda risks throwing balanced, deliberate reform of copyright law utterly out of the window. In less than 12 hours, the draft Digital Economy Bi (Read More)
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Libraries And Librarians,
Digital Rights Management (Drm)
EFF.org Updates:
Copyright law involves a delicate balance, made all the more fragile by the number of people who now find their every day actions affected by it. Some people benefit, others find ordinary behaviors made illegal. Reforming cop (Read More)
Library Stuff:
Foreign Policy – “Neither the courts, nor the lawyers, nor even the Liberian parliament have a physical copy of the country’s legal code. That’s because one man is claiming a copyright on the books — and he’s holding them hos (Read More)
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Libraries And Librarians
Berkman Center Newsfeed:
From the MediaBerkman blog:Is the fate of books a forgone conclusion? Will they just continue to make their way out of print and into digital form? This week’s guest, author Cory Doctorow, suggests that we might want to keep (Read More)
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Cyberlaw News
The Guardian:
Labour colleagues are concerned business secretary could set precedent that would allow Tories to help Murdoch take on GoogleLord Mandelson is seeking to amend the laws on copyright to give the government sweeping new powers (Read More)
The Guardian:
BBC to make 11 years' worth of programme chronicling 'history of ideas' available on the internetIn Our Time, the BBC Radio 4 history show presented by Melvyn Bragg, is more usually associated with the past - but it is about (Read More)
Boing Boing:
A source close to the British Labour Government has just given me reliable information about the most radical copyright proposal I've ever seen.Secretary of State Peter Mandelson is planning to introduce changes to the Digita (Read More)
Guardian Unlimited: Technology:
And so it ends: the site that was selling digital downloads of Beatles songs - the only ones doing so anywhere in the world - have been shut down at the order of a US judge, reports the NME.We reported before on the legal tra (Read More)
Boing Boing:
The Electronic Frontier Foundation's international policy crimefighting duo, Eddan Katz and Gwen Hinze, have published a scholarly article analyzing the secret Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement in light of US law and policy (Read More)
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