Banking on IP? The role of intellectual property and intangible assets in facilitating business finance. Lessig triumphs in fair use battle. PRESS RELEASES - Press release - Lack of choice driving demand for film downloads. European Commission Press release Brussels, 6 February 2014 Lack of choice driving demand for film downloads Nearly 70% of Europeans download or stream films for free, whether legally or illegally, according to a new European Commission study on audience behaviour.
Nearly 70% of Europeans download, stream films ‘without paying’ – EC study. A Short History of Enclosure in Britain. Over the course of a few hundred years, much of Britain's land has been privatized — that is to say taken out of some form of collective ownership and management and handed over to individuals.
Currently, in our "property-owning democracy", nearly half the country is owned by 40,000 land millionaires, or 0.06 per cent of the population,1 while most of the rest of us spend half our working lives paying off the debt on a patch of land barely large enough to accommodate a dwelling and a washing line. There are many factors that have led to such extreme levels of land concentration, but the most blatant and the most contentious has been enclosure — the subdivision and fencing of common land into individual plots which were allocated to those people deemed to have held rights to the land enclosed.
Copyright wars are damaging the health of the internet. I've sat through more presentations about the way to solve the copyright wars than I've had hot dinners, and all of them has fallen short of the mark.
That's because virtually everyone with a solution to the copyright wars is worried about the income of artists, while I'm worried about the health of the internet. Oh, sure, I worry about the income of artists, too, but that's a secondary concern. After all, practically everyone who ever set out to earn a living from the arts has failed – indeed, a substantial portion of those who try end up losing money in the bargain. Breaking Bad y los telespectadores del ahora.
Ahora que ha terminado Breaking Bad y múltiples rincones están hablando de su capítulo final, he decido verlo en una plataforma de pago.
La disidencia académica y el compromiso científico. La concesión del premio Príncipe de Asturias a la socióloga Saskia Sassen es una gran noticia.
Los libreros británicos se suman al coro de críticas contra Amazon. La dura crítica del Gobierno francés a las arrolladoras prácticas comerciales del gigante Amazon, acompañada además del anuncio de un plan de ayudas a los libreros independientes, suena a música celestial para los oídos de este sector en Reino Unido. Una música ajena, porque el proteccionismo cultural no forma parte del acervo de esta sociedad eminentemente mercantil, pero acicate para que los libreros británicos hayan vuelto a reclamar el apoyo de su Gobierno frente a lo que consideran “competencia desleal” de la multinacional estadounidense. Perdida toda esperanza de que se les rebaje una insostenible presión impositiva, exigen al menos que el rival Amazon también tribute de acuerdo con el volumen de su negocio en las islas. Editores y escritores reivindican la bajada del precio del libro digital. Abaratar el precio de los libros digitales, exigir medidas legales contundentes para combatir la piratería, concienciar a los lectores sobre la importancia de los derechos de autor y reducir el IVA por parte del Gobierno.
Estas son algunas de las estrategias con las cuales el sector editorial de España quiere frenar la caída de las ventas (casi un 40% desde 2008) y ponerse al día en los cambios propiciados por las tecnologías emergentes que han obligado a una reconversión del sector. Ideas que se han repetido en diferentes escenarios en los últimos meses y que han sonado con fuerza en la 72ª Feria del Libro de Madrid a través de la mesa redonda En defensa de la creación. Cada vez que veo un libro electrónico a 14 euros se me abren las carnes.
Reselling digital media: The music man. Publishing scientific copyright. Can the creation of music be crowdsourced? Ericsson and DJ Avicii think it can. New internet and social networking tools have let us to crowdsource our work, our code, the curation of news and even our investments.
Keep Calm and Carry On trademark battle enters new year. Barter Books in Alnwick railway station is a beloved institution in the north of England, with an extraordinary extra claim to fame.
Its owners Stuart and Mary Manley began events which have led to a tide of variants on the slogan 'Keep Calm and Carry On' prepared in 1939 by the wartime Government in case of German invasion but never used. The saga started in 2001 when the Manleys found one of the posters, which had survived Government recall and destruction, in a box of books bought at an auction for their vast emporium. More than 100,000 copies have since been sold by the shop, along with mouse mats, postcards, T-shirts and much else. Wirkungslose Behörde - Lippenbekenntnis Datenschutz: 3 Beamte für 16.000 Akten. Die kritische Suche nach Cyber-Sicherheit - Österreich ringt um Verteidigungsstrategie.
Google Music Censoring Swears for Some Users. Let’s keep it clean people.
Photo: Ariel Zambelich/Wired.
Richard O'Dwyer's two-year extradition ordeal ends in New York. A British student's two-year fight to avoid extradition to the US ended in less than five minutes on Thursday, when Richard O'Dwyer signed an agreement in a New York court to avoid prosecution and a potential 10-year jail term for breaking copyright laws with the file-sharing website he set up as a teenager. The 24-year-old spoke only to confirm his name and his understanding of the three-page agreement, which was reached last week by his legal team and US prosecutors.
The brief hearing in lower Manhattan marked the end of an ordeal that dates back to October 2010, when O'Dwyer was arrested by City of London police, accompanied by US customs officials, in his student room in Sheffield. Outside court, O'Dwyer and his family criticised the British government's response to the case, saying they had received little support from the Home Office. Copyright Scofflaws Beware: ISPs to Begin Monitoring Illicit File Sharing. The nation’s major internet service providers by year’s end will institute a so-called six-strikes plan, the “Copyright Alert System” initiative backed by the Obama administration and pushed by Hollywood and the major record labels to disrupt and possibly terminate internet access for online copyright scofflaws.
The plan, now four years in the making, includes participation by AT&T, Cablevision Systems, Comcast, Time Warner Cable and Verizon. After four offenses, the historic plan calls for these residential internet providers to initiate so-called “mitigation measures” (.pdf) that might include reducing internet speeds and redirecting a subscriber’s service to an “educational” landing page about infringement. The internet companies may eliminate service altogether for repeat file-sharing offenders, although the plan does not directly call for such drastic action.
Copyright wars (samsung google apple) guardian. Angry Birds Star Wars out on November 8! Angry Birds. DC TEAM MEETS JAPANESE RESEARCHER TO SUGGEST WIPO & JPO IMPROVEMENTS : Re:Marks on Copyright and Trademark : Lawyer & Attorney for Intellectual Property Protection : DLA Piper Law Firm. Forget about milk and chickens, the TPP could choke the free Internet - Jesse Brown, Technology.
(Getty Images) Yesterday, Heritage Minister James Moore announced that Canada has formally joined the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), a group that is discussing a major trade agreement among us and Australia, Brunei, Chile, Malaysia, Mexico, New Zealand, Peru, Singapore, the U.S., and Vietnam. The deal is at the negotiation stage now, but all countries at the table are expected to sign in late 2013.
Copyright Madness du 22 au 29 octobre : vers l'infini et au-delà ! OpenMedia International.