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Amazon Pursues a Canadian Patent on Selling Used Digital Content | The Digital Reader

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The Authors Guild and Society of Authors Ask Publishers for Higher eBook Royalties | The Digital Reader

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The Dgital reader: Apple Raises iPad Prices in Germany to Cover a New a New “You Must be a Pirate” Tax

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Start-Up Personalizes Books for Children, With Robot as Co-Author – The New York Times

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For Pandora, Ruling on Streaming Royalty Rates Is Crucial – The New York Times

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The IPKat: EU Commission due to issue legislative proposal on content portability in spring 2016, wants to make some exceptions mandatory, and dreams of full copyright harmonisation

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“Google Books’ libraries scanning is fair use” confirmed by the Court of Appeal

“Google’s copying is fair use under 17 U.S.C. §107 and is therefore not infringing.

The Court of Appeals concludes that the defendant’s copying is transformative within the meaning of Campbell v. Acuff-Rose Music, Inc., 510 U.S. 569, 10 578-585 (1994), does not offer the public a meaningful  substitute for matter protected by the plaintiffs’ copyrights, and satisfies § 107’s test for fair use.”

Court of Appeal ruling here.

Confirming the District Court decision that you can find here.

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European Publishers Play Lobbying Role Against Google – The New York Times

  • “The argument is simple enough: Publishers want money from Google,” said Till Kreutzer, a German lawyer who has campaigned against these new copyright proposals. “Many European politicians are open to listening to that type of proposal.”

    I wonder if normal people voice will ever be listened at Bruxelles. Commissioners speak a lot with Publishing Industries, will they truly speak to citizens one of these days?

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Corte di Giustizia UE: Digitalizzazione dei libri delle biblioteche pubbliche

  • “Uno Stato membro può autorizzare le biblioteche a digitalizzare, senza il consenso dei titolari dei diritti, determinati libri della loro collezione al fine di proporli su posti di lettura elettronica.

  • Gli Stati membri possono, entro certi limiti e a determinate condizioni qual i il pagamento di un equo compenso ai titolari dei diritti, autorizzare gli utilizzatori a stampare su carta o a memorizzare su una chiave USB i libri digitalizzati dalla biblioteca”

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Julia Reda – Reda Report adopted: A turning point in the copyright debate

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