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How can we navigate through the information landscape that is only beginning to come into view? The question is more urgent than ever following the recent settlement between Google and the authors and publishers who were suing it for alleged breach of copyright.

Dans cette affaire, un particulier avait assigné les producteurs d'un film parce qu'il n'avait pu faire une copie sur VHS du DVD qu'il avait acheté en raison d'un dispositif anti-copie. La Cour d'Appel de Paris, le 4 avril 2007, a rejeté sa prétention au motif que l'exception de copie privée prévue à l'article L122-5 du code de la propriété intellectuelle ne constitue pas un droit, mais bien une exception à l'interdiction de reproduire une œuvre protégée.

"00:48'12 Well, the proposal is to replace notice-and-take-down with notice-and-termination. We go from a regime where content is removed from a website, to a regime where customers' DSL connection or cable modem connection is severed."

Your technology, your endeavors, your freedoms are all falling to the onslaught of entertainment-industry- funded initiatives that are destroying the future to preserve its dinosauric business models. Get your pitchforks and torches, burn your Sony rootkit-infected CDs, and take to the streets. They've declared war on you and your way of life -- if you don't defend yourself, who will?

In the life+50 universe, which constitute the largest cohort of countries, including Canada, which collectively have the majority of the world's population, life-plus copyrights expired at midnight for those authors, or last-surviving of multiple authors, who died in 1958. Some notable life+50 entries into the public domain include life+50 copyrights for authors such as

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Adding an alternative accessible version just for blind people is discriminatory. According to accessibility guidelines - and common sense - alternative access for people with disabilities should only be used when there is no other way to make web content accessible. Besides, access to the text version would also simplify life for scholars - and for people using portable devices with a small screen: text can be resized far better than a puzzle of images with fixed width and height

Alle Werke von Autoren, die seit 70 Jahren verstorben sind, werden weltweit gemeinfrei. Je nach Land variiert diese Schutz-Dauer zwischen 50 und 70 Jahren nach dem Tod eines Kulturschaffenden, wobei vereinzelt auch Übergangsfristen aufgrund von Verlängerungen bestehen.

The Joel Tenenbaum file-swapping case continues to get weirder--and we're still months away from an actual trial. Not only has the RIAA now appealed the judge's order allowing one particular hearing to be webcast, but music industry lawyers are now seeking sanctions on Tenenbaum's lawyer, Harvard Law professor Charles Nesson.

Have you ever come across a web site that you could not access and wondered,"Am I the only one?" Herdict Web aggregates reports of inaccessible sites, allowing users to compare data to see if innacessibility is a shared problem. By crowdsourcing data from around the world, we can document accessibility for any web site, anywhere. This is our official blog, where we'll be updating regularly with the latest breaking news and research from our ongoing efforts.

"Here's the audio of my speech last month [Feb 16, 06 at Olin College, a small, elite engineering school outside of Boston. "

Dans un contexte de lutte contre la piraterie en ligne, Dailymotion, qui a conclu des accords avec différentes sociétés de gestion collective françaises pour rémunérer certains ayants droits semble vouloir solidifier son business model, pour éviter la multiplication des actions de « notice and take down » fondées sur la LCEN, et se conformer aux accords Olivennes, accord interprofessionnel base du projet de loi Hadopi, validé par le Sénat et prochainement discuté à l'Assemblée Nationale.

The Portable Document Format (PDF) is a popular format to publish formatted text and documents. There are several different versions of it, some qualifying as an Open Standard, some certified by ISO and some encumbered by software patents. You might want to promote the versions that are Open Standards, because Open Standards guarantee interoperability, competition and choice

Do we need an international treaty for reading disabled persons? Yes, and today the World Blind Union is seeking international support for a proposed Treaty for Reading Disabled Persons at the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO). The next meeting where this matter could be taken up is at the WIPO Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights taking place in Geneva, May 25-29, 2009.

On July 24-25 2008, the World Blind Union (WBU) and KEI convened an experts meeting to consider a possible WIPO Treaty for Improved Access for Blind, Visually Impaired and other Reading Disabled Persons.

On July 24-25, 2008, the World Blind Union and KEI convened an expert group to consider a possible treaty for blind, visually impaired and other reading disabled persons. The meeting was held in Washington, DC. There is a one page talking points memo in English, and the proposed Treaty text, as a three page memo discussing the proposal. These documents are available in English, French and Spanish, in several document formats. The English version of the proposed Treaty text is available in DAISY format from the DAISY Consortium here .

KEI supports the notion that the WIPO SCCR should begin it's norm setting agenda in small confidence building steps, working with communities that know what they want. The reading disabled community is at the head of the line both because they are ready now, and because they have a very compelling need. According to the World Health Organization, there are 45 million persons who are blind, and 90 percent of them live in developing countries, mostly in appalling poverty and with very limited employment opportunities.