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Shi Tao is serving a 10-year sentence in prison for writing articles calling for political reform in China. Yahoo helped put him there .
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Consumers’ Rights Still Not On Equal Footing With Copyright Owners’, Study Finds | Intellectual Property Watch
The newly published third annual Consumers International IP Watchlist shows that most countries offer weak support for consumer interests in access to knowledge and the global copyright system seems ill-equipped to respond to the new consumer creativity evolving on internet. However, the study found that some countries are demonstrating good practices when it comes to consumers.
EDRI | Digital Civil Rights in Europe
SABAM (Société Belge des Auteurs, Compositeurs et Editeurs), the Belgian collecting society for music royalties, is in the spotlight again. A few months after the Scarlet/SABAM case, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) has released a new decision on the legality of filtering systems on the Internet, this time with regard to filtering of content stored on web services. Today, the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU) ruled that a social network “cannot be obliged to install a general filtering system, covering all its users, in order to prevent the unlawful use of musical and audio-visual work”.
10 Big Myths about copyright explained
Note that this is an essay about copyright myths . It assumes you know at least what copyright is -- basically the legal exclusive right of the author of a creative work to control the copying of that work.Copyright Symbol webpage is to help anyone searching for information about the Copyright-C symbol (which is the Circle (C)).
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A Detailed Look at Bill C-32 - Canada's Copyright Reform Bill (Part 1) » ZeroPaid.com
We’ve been hearing lots about Canada’s new copyright reform bill (Bill C-32) and it’s already caused quite a stir. Since it is so new, very few people have had a chance outside of government to read through the new legislation. So, we here at ZeroPaid hope to help fill that gap by giving the bill a thorough going over (as is the tradition it seems) and picking out things that are of interest.