Archive for November, 2009

ICOMP: Revised Google Book Search Deal A Massive Disappointment

Monday, November 16th, 2009

Last Friday, 13 November, the parties to the US Google Book Search litigation filed a revised settlement proposal. The original proposal had drawn vociferous objections from the French, German, and US governments, as well as from authors, publishers, libraries, academics, and consumer groups across Europe and the world.
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The EUObserver: Creative Rights and Content Online

Thursday, November 5th, 2009

As the reach of the Internet continues to grow, EU regulators are scrambling to understand its implications for copyright and other intellectual property rights.

Managing creative content online will be one of the major policy challenges for the new European Commission and European Parliament over the next five years.
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