In United States the Higher Education Opportunity Act of 2008 is making colleges and universities do the entertainment industry's dirty work by having to invest time and money "to effectively combat the unauthorized distribution of copyrighted material" or risk losing federal funding.
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ACTA calls to urgently rethink patents and copyright (open letter)
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Whatever the final text will be after the next negotiation rounds, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement will remain an illegitimate agreement, by its elaboration process (beyond any democratic control) as well as its content (further strengthening of an outdated set of legislation).
Read more »The Real Debate About OIN
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The main downside of the OIN is not its secrecy but its function as endorser of software patents; Groklaw and Müller carry on arguing
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FSF calls for ACTA fight
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A SECRET TREATY that will see the governments of the world hand over control to the music and film industries is being challenged by open sourcerors.
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Google Engineer Calls Upon The Open Source Community for VP8 Codec Optimization
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Google engineer John Koleszar asked the open source community for help optimizing the VP8 codec for the WebM project, Google's open source project for watching video online. In soliciting help, Koleszar gave a sort of State of the Codec Address regarding VP8, it's functionality and the headway he and his fellow programmers have made since the WebM announcement at Google I/O 2010.
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What Happened to my Creative Commons License?
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I was surfing around yesterday, I noticed that OpenSource.com has an article about building communities that work.
Read more »Software Patents Debate in LinuxTag 2010 and Elsewhere in Europe
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Coverage of the patent issue which was raised in LinuxTag 2010, the council of the European Union, and also touched on by Google's chief legal officer (who helps protect from MPEG-LA)
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My take on the FSF action against Apple over GNU Go
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About two weeks ago, the FSF announced that it has taken action against the Apple App Store over their distribution of GNU Go. This has apparently set off some people like lefty and triggered a length and wide debate.
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Free Art License
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«Free Art Licence (or FAL) is a contract that applies the “copyleft” concept to artistic creation of all kinds, without formal or aesthetic discrimination of any kind. If you or your artworld call it art, you can protect it under FAL by making it free.
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The Effects of Software Patent Policy on the Motivation and Innovation of FOSS
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The thesis of Marcus Manfred Dapp offers an explanation of why software patents are bad for Europe (and for any other continent/country for that matter)
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Stewart Rules: Novell Wins! CASE CLOSED!
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Here you go, munchkins. Judge Ted Stewart has ruled for Novell and against SCO. Novell's claim for declaratory judgment is granted; SCO's claims for specific performance and breach of the implied covenant of good fair and fair dealings are denied. Also SCO's motion for judgment as a matter of law or for a new trial: denied.
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Free, a growing phenomenon
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"Within the framework of the author’s copyright that protects literary and artistic works, a growing number of authors choose to make their works available to the public with contracts of a very specific type called free licences. These licences allow anyone to distribute or perform copies of the work.
Read more »As Promised, Google Delivers GPL Compatibility and GNU/Linux Starts Embedding VP8/WebM Support
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Why the next version of your Web browser, media player or GNU/Linux distribution will probably contain VP8/WebM code; Apple and MPEG-LA continue to be the main barriers to VP8/WebM adoption
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Google just updated the license for their WebM Project to make it GPL-compatible.
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A couple of weeks ago Google announced their WebM project, which provided a free software implementation of their VP8 video codec and a license to exercise the patents the company held on the software.
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Mozilla Says It’s Totally Fine to Ship VP8/WebM, or They Wouldn’t Ship It
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Mozilla is not afraid of MPEG-LA and it will calmly support Google's new codec; perhaps so should everyone else
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