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Továbbra sem lesznek ingyenesek a Beatles számok. Az unió 20 évvel meghosszabbította a zenei művek szerzői jogainak védelmi időtartamát. Az Európai Unión belül továbbra is fizetni kell az ötvenes években írt rock 'n roll zeneszámokért és a korai Beatles dalokért. Az Európai Parlament ugyanis 20 évvel meghosszabbította a zenei művek szerzői jogi oltalmát: 50 évről 70 évre módosították a védelmi idejüket . Ez bizonyos értelemben szükséges is volt, hiszen az eddigi szabályozás szerint több, ma is népszerű fél évszázados dal közkincsé vált volna a védelmi idő lejártát követően, mikor egyetemes emberi értékként már bárki ingyenesen felhasználhatta volna.

e-Learning courses available to University staff The University is a member of FaTMAN (Fife and Tayside Metropolitan Area Network). The FaTMAN Management Committee has purchased, via Welsh Networking Ltd, access to a range of high-quality training materials. In total there are 255 online courses in three categories: IT Professional (e.g. Microsoft, Cisco, Oracle, A+, Network+, SQL server, Visual Basic .NET); Desktop Computing (e.g. Microsoft Office XP applications, MS Frontpage, MS Outlook, Adobe Photoshop); and Business and Professional Development Skills (e.g. Time management, project management, appraisal, managing a meeting, stress management). Courses are being made available, to members of University staff only, without charge up to 26 February 2006 in the first instance. For more information, please see:

The United States currently needs 350,000 computer networking professionals and an additional 1.3 million by the year 2005.  Many adults, including displaced military personnel, recent GED recipients, and those with disabilities or special needs, want to begin or advance careers in networking.  However, most of these adults do not have adequate access to training due to high cost and limited availability. 

Az Unió az internetes hálózatokba történő beruházásokra ösztönöz

A Bizottság szeptember 18-án olyan kezdeményezéseket tett közzé, melyek célja az új, magas technológiájú és nagysebességű optikai internetes szolgáltatásokra való átállás meggyorsítása. Alig vált azonban nyilvánossá a kezdeményezés, máris támadások érték. A javaslatok egyik célja ugyanis, hogy növelje a versenyt a szektorban.

Az ágazat (EurActiv.com 04/07/08) és az Európai Palament (EurActiv.com 25/04/08) nyomására a Bizottság a múlt héten végre előterjesztette azt a javaslatot, mely a következő generációs internet-szolgáltatásokba (Next Generation Access Networks (NGANs) való jövőbeli befektetésekre ösztönöz.

The medical industry is one that sees a lot of UGC. A search on YouTube finds thousands of videos of people talking about their illnesses, from cancer sufferers to people with bullemia. Support groups are flourishing and people are finding that sharing experiences and content online is sometimes easier than face-to-face. Talking about your experiences to video and uploading this to YouTube for others to respond to and comment on is probably easier than discussing it in real life. The internet and social networks probably offer access to a greater number of fellow-sufferers than even a local support group might offer. Beyond support, people can use social media and user-generated content to help understand their illnesses. The supposed danger here is that people will self-diagnose and that this may be incorrect. At the same time, you’d expect that privacy issues would prevent any meaningful and useful exchange of ideas. But in fact, user-generated medical content is a vibrant example of how the social networking and online communities can be powerful for exchanging information.

A report by Jupiter Research in 2007 showed that 20% of Americans turn to others online for information about medical issues. They are clearly not shy of seeking or giving advice, even on more personal issues. They use sites such as OrganizedWisdom, a Wiki-style community, to share information they have and get information they need. The concern over the accuracy of this information still stands, with worries about non-medical professionals sharing information that people use to self-diagnose. But research by the British Medical Journal in 2004 found that in the online support communities it studied only 6% of content was incorrect. If this replicated across all medical content online then it would probably be among some of the more accurate user-generated content on the internet. User-generated medical content shows that people are willing to share and are accurate when they do so. Even in a more niche and potentially risky area such as medical advice and disgnosis, the quality and usefulness of user-generated content is high.

They have been largely caught unawares by the growth of such sites as Flickr, YouTube, OhMyNews and MySpace. Their growth stems from both better broadband availability and the increased scope for tribalism, identity expression and personalisation that user-generated content provides. Paul Saffo of the marvellously titled Institute of the Future notes that this could herald a 'Cambrian explosion' of creativity: a flowering of expressive diversity on the scale of the eponymous proliferation of biological species 530 million years ago. So what does this trend mean for wireless carriers? John Delaney looks at the implications.

Mobile operators are well-placed to benefit from the explosion of interest in user-generated content (UGC). It fits well as an extension of the trend to personalize that is already so successful in the mobile environment, and offers a way to monetize the wealth of 'user-generated content' currently residing (unsent) on mobile terminals worldwide.

Other trends facilitating the growth in content include: The growth in storage capacity, coupled with ever cheaper prices. The growth of standardized, non-proprietary capacity in mobile phones encourages both sharing across other devices and upgrading.

An electronic spy network, based mainly in China