An Open Letter from US Researchers in Cryptography and Information Security
"…We urge the US government to reject society-wide surveillance and the subversion of security technology, to adopt state-of-the-art, privacy-preserving technology, and to ensure that new policies, guided by enunciated principles, support human rights, trustworthy commerce, and technical innovation".
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Corte di Giustizia dell’UE, 19 dicembre 2013, C‑202/12:
– provides the end user with a search form which essentially offers the same range of functionality as the search form on the database site;
– ‘translates’ queries from end users into the search engine for the database site ‘in real time’, so that all the information on that database is searched through; and
– presents the results to the end user using the format of its website, grouping duplications together into a single block item but in an order that reflects criteria comparable to those used by the search engine of the database site concerned for presenting results…."
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"Streaming is not per se a copyright infringing act of reproduction in Germany"
"The German ministry of Justice said that the act of offering a streaming service is not per se illegal in terms of copyright law. For it to be against the law, it must be beyond doubt that the content is indeed protected by copyright and that it was offered without authorisation of the rightholder. Additionally, it must be established that streaming is an act of "reproduction" in terms of copyright law in the case at hand. In this line of reasoning, offering a stream is not in itself an illegal form of content distribution, according to the German justice department."
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The Battle for Power on the Internet – Bruce Schneier – The Atlantic
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Digital Agenda for Europe – European Commission
"Copyright – Commission launches public consultation"
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“Spotify has now launched a new set of tools for artists, managers and others to track the popularity of their content on the service. [.] The tools are accompanied by some info laying out the royalties Spotify pays to musicians and the various benefits it provides to artists over competing services.”
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