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Brussels lights way ahead for Euro book digi library
Anything Google can do, we can do slower The European Union has promised a rapid reaction to the threat posed to Europe’s cultural heritage by Google Books, deploying the twin weapons of a “stakeholder dialogue” and an impact assessment.…
Continue reading »Anti-Piracy Group Drops Ridiculous Claim Against ISP
Next week the case of Village Roadshow, Universal Pictures, Warner Bros Entertainment, Paramount Pictures, Sony Pictures Entertainment, Twentieth Century Fox Film Corporation, Disney Enterprises, Inc. and the Seven Network (all under the umbrella of AFACT), against Australian ISP iiNet will finally get to court. AFACT’s position in the case – officially known as Roadshow Films Pty Ltd & Ors v iiNet Ltd – is that iiNet “failed to take reasonable steps, including enforcing its own terms and conditions, to prevent known unauthorized use of copies of the companies’ films and TV programs by iiNet’s customers via its network.” AFACT previously demanded disconnection for those iiNet subscribers alleged to have infringed their copyrights by sharing material using BitTorrent.
Continue reading »Spotify Connection Disqualifies Pirate Bay Appeal Judge
The Appeal Court announced today that lay judge Fredrik Niemelä has been disqualified from the upcoming Pirate Bay appeal. Unlike the previous calls to replace people involved in the Pirate Bay trial, this one came from the music industry, not the defense team. Last week music industry body IFPI requested Niemelä to be taken off the case, since he is connected to the music streaming application Spotify which is partly owned by the major record labels.
Continue reading »Lily Allen Pirates Music, Is Clueless About Copyright
After we found out that Lily Allen copied an article from Techdirt without attribution or permission to prove why copyright infringement is wring, we called her a hypocrite. Even celebrity guru Perez Hilton agreed with this assessment, and it seems that Lily is more hypocrite than we could have ever imagined. In a reply to our criticism Lily wrote the following blog entry in which she entirely missed the point we tried to make.
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