Three days before a protest blackout of major Internet sites including Wikipedia, SOPA’s main sponsor Eric Cantor announced that he will stop to move the bill forward … unless there is consensus. While Neelie Kroes, Vice-President of the EC in… Mehr lesen >
After the depths of the plagiarism scandal leading to his ousting as German Minister of Defense, Karl-Theodor zu Guttenberg moved to exile in the US of A, where he joined the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS). Now he… Mehr lesen >
Munich’s LiMux project announced that on 12.12.2011 the 9,000th PC workstation in the city’s administration was migrated to the new LiMux Client, putting the project ahead of its schedule. With a few exceptions all MS Office suits have been uninstalled… Mehr lesen >
In the economic South, access to global flows of goods, technology and ideas increasingly occurs through a culture of piracy that sidesteps the global juridical and economic norms set, for instance, by the WTO. To date, academic discourse has addressed… Mehr lesen >
BBC News reports on 12 September 2011: Rock veterans win copyright fight. On Monday, the EU Council voted to extend the copyright on sound recordings from 50 to 70 years. The move follows a campaign by artists like Cliff Richard… Mehr lesen >
The multi-stakeholder Global Congress, convened in Washington, DC on 25-27 August 2011, issued The Washington Declaration on Intellectual Property and the Public Interest. A powerful statement for the public welfare purposes, such as education and health, that all legal protection… Mehr lesen >
Just off the press: Lucie Guibault, Christina Angelopoulos (eds.), Open Content Licensing. From Theory to Practice, Amsterdam University Press 2011. Full text download / Table of Content. „To promote the use of open content licenses, it is important to better… Mehr lesen >
DRM: Ubisoft: our DRM “is a success”, PC Gamer, 28.7.2011 DRM: Weiter im Einsatz bei eBooks, Bibliothekarisch.de, 6.3.2011 US is introducing data retention law, Cnet, 28.7.2011 HADOPI geht in die letzte Eskalationsstufe, Netzpolitik, 25.7.2011 PayPal, IFPI and Police Collaborate To… Mehr lesen >
Activist and programmer Aaron Swartz has been indicted for downloading more the four million articles from the academic repository JSTOR. Aaron is a fellow at Harvard University’s Center for Ethics, co-author of the RSS 1.0 specification, founder of Demand Progress,… Mehr lesen >
„Despite the huge PR campaign surrounding the “eG8 forum”, citizens and civil society must hold their ground to reclaim a free Internet and its social and democratic values. A club of corporation CEOs (Publicis, Facebook, Orange, Google) is going to… Mehr lesen >