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One Simple Copyright Reform Idea: Government Edicts Should Never Be Subject To Copyright
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 8 days ago
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Government Edicts Should Never Be Subject To Copyright from the should-be-a-no-brainer dept With copyright reform back on the table, there are bound to be more and more discussions and various ideas suggested...Carl Malamud, who has worked on making
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Appeals Court In Google Book Scanning Case Clearly Leaning Towards Fair Use Ruling
San Francisco :: CA :: USA | 16 days ago
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And nowhere is that more clear than in the long-running lawsuit against Google for its book scanning efforts. The guild has already lost a similar lawsuit, against the Hathitrust (a consortium of university libraries) where a court found the scanning
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House Judiciary Subcommittee's First Copyright Hearing
New York City :: NY :: USA | 17 days ago
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Hearing I just received this and wanted to make it public information for discussion: The first copyright review hearing will be noticed shortly for next Thursday at 2pm. The title of the hearing will be A Case Study for Consensus Building: The
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USTR Special 301 Report Doesn't Even Mention Germany Trampling Fair Use
Berlin :: Germany | 17 days ago
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After all, back at the beginning of March, Germany's lower house, the Bundestag, passed a somewhat watered-down, but still troubling, bill concerning the quoting of "snippets," saying they would need to be licensed. The watered down part noted that "
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Missing children cases often end in tragedy
New York City :: NY :: USA | 17 days ago
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Stories Three Cleveland teens kidnapped a decade ago were found alive on Monday , but many cases of missing children end in uncertainty and heartbreak. There were 8,101 children reported missing in New York City in 2012, according to the New York
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Africa: U.S. Rates Intellectual Property Protections of Trading Partners
Kiev :: Ukraine | 18 days ago
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Washington In an annual report on the adequacy of the intellectual property rights protections of U.S. trading partners, the Office of the U.S...Section 182 of the Trade Act of 1974, as amended by the Omnibus Trade and Competitiveness Act of 1988 and
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BREAKING NEWS: Kevin Jackson comes out “I'm NOT GAY”
Missouri City :: TX :: USA | 21 days ago
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On the heels of the Jason Collins announcement, Kevin Jackson announced today that he is NOT gay...Asked why he is making the announcement now, Jackson commented: Well it's time. Since I have 4 sons, people were beginning to suspect anyway...If you
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U.S. trade office hits out at Novartis ruling
Mumbai :: India | 22 days ago
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Appears to confirm that India's law creates a special, additional criterion for select technologies' This week, the U.S. India's Supreme Court in the Novartis case, denying the pharmaceutical giant a patent on cancer drug Glivec. Washington was
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China's IPR lawmaking, enforcement making progress
Mumbai :: India | 22 days ago
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China has made progress in intellectual property rights (IPR) legislation and law enforcement, according to the country's Ministry of Commerce on Thursday. The ministry made the remarks in a statement in response to the "Special 301 Report" regarding
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Ukraine heads list of countries using piracy software
Kiev :: Ukraine | 23 days ago
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This designation is the culmination of several years of growing concern over widespread IP theft, including the growing entrenchment of IPR infringement that is facilitated by government actors. During intensive bilateral engagement, Ukraine has
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