Pandora Wins Appeals Court Ruling on Ascap Royalty Rates – NYTimes.com
“In Pandora Media’s second victory against the music industry in a week, a federal appeals court affirmed a judge’s ruling about royalty rates for the millions of songs represented by Ascap.”
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” three pillars: (1) better access for consumers and businesses to digital goods and services across Europe; (2) creating the right conditions and a level playing field for digital networks and innovative services to flourish; (3) maximising the growth potential of the digital economy.”
“The sector inquiry will focus particularly on potential barriers erected by companies to cross-border online trade in goods and services where e-commerce is most widespread such as electronics, clothing and shoes, as well as digital content. Knowledge gained through the sector inquiry will contribute to better enforcement of competition law in the e-commerce sector.”
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EC to level Europe’s telecoms playing field | TelecomTV
“Reuters says it’s seen a document that indicates that the European Commission is going to tilt the playing field in favour of European telcos as part of a general overhaul of the Europe’s telecom rules next year.”
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“In a resolution on the right to privacy in the digital age, the Council appointed for a period of three years a Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy and called on all countries to support this new mandate, including by providing all necessary information requested by the Special Rapporteur, to respond promptly to his or her urgent appeals and other communications, to consider favourably his or her requests to visit their countries, and to consider implementing the recommendations made in his or her reports.”
Farida Shaheed, the United Nations Special Rapporteur in the field of cultural rights, delivered a very intense and straightforward Report on Copyright policy and the right to science and culture (A/HRC/28/57)
She summarizes its key points:
“1) First, intellectual property rights are not human rights. This equation is false and misleading. In some ways, copyright policy falls short of adequately protecting authorship, in other ways it often goes too far, unnecessarily limiting cultural freedom and participation.
2) Second, authors must be distinguished from copyright-holders. The right to protection of authorship remains with the human author(s) whose creative vision gave expression to the work, even when the copyright interest has been sold to a corporate publisher or distributer. We should always keep in mind that copyright regimes may under-protect authors because producers/publishers/distributors and other “subsequent right-holders” typically exercise more influence over law-making than individual creators, and may have divergent and possibly opposing interests to those of the creators.
3) Third, protection of authorship as a human right requires in some ways more and in other ways less than what is currently found in the copyright laws of most countries. This holds true for both the moral and the material interests of authors.”
This is the second of a group of Reports by Rapporteur Farida Shaheed on that subject. The first focused on cultural rights, the third one will examine the connection between the right to science and culture and patent policy.
Corte Giustizia UE 5 marzo 2015, C-479/13 – Commissione c. Francia
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Tru Optik Data advocates using piracy data for marketing purpose
“piracy is a signal for demand” (Future of Copyrght)
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