Archive for 2011/12/16

Stop Online Piracy Act vote delayed, probably well into 2012

Posted: 2011/12/16 in Blocking, Copyright, Education / Awareness, Filtering, Legislation

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/2011/12/stop-online-piracy-act-vote-delayed-probably-well-into-2012.ars

The British government agrees with the Hargreveas Review that it is necessary to adjust intellectual property legislation to new forms of technology, innovation and creativity

Posted: 2011/12/16 in Copyright, Education / Awareness, Legislation, Public Policy

It hereby hopes to support economic growth through modernisation of intellectual property legislation

http://www.futureofcopyright.com/home/blog-post/2011/12/16/united-kingdom-proposes-to-modernise-copyright.html

 

Chinese online video companies Tudou Holdings and Youku.com said they will sue each other for alleged copyright infringements of their videos

Posted: 2011/12/16 in Copyright, Education / Awareness, Litigation

http://www.futureofcopyright.com/home/blog-post/2011/12/16/chinese-video-sites-clash-over-copyrights.html

Law firm John Wiley and Sons suing BitTorrent users ‘to educate’

Posted: 2011/12/16 in Education / Awareness, File Sharing, Illegal File Sharing, Litigation

The company filed a new mass-lawsuit this month, targeting dozens of John Does who allegedly shared Wiley titles online. Talking to TorrentFreak, the publisher states that it’s not their intention to litigate against individuals, but to settle and educate instead

http://torrentfreak.com/for-dummies-publisher-sues-bittorrent-users-to-educate-and-settle-111215/

Does YouTube allow Universal Music Group to remove just anything?

Posted: 2011/12/16 in Blocking, Education / Awareness, Filtering, Google

The UMG-YouTube agreement grants UMG rights to effect the removal of user-posted videos through YouTube’s Content Management System (‘CMS’), based on a number of contractually specified criteria that are not limited to the infringements of copyrights owned or controlled by UMG

http://torrentfreak.com/megaupload-video-reinstated-universal-says-you-cant-touch-us-111216/

Dutch Investigative Committee: In The Netherlands (1945-1985) up to 20,000 children between the ages of 11 and 14 may have been sexually abused by representatives of the Catholic Church

Posted: 2011/12/16 in Education / Awareness, Stats / reports

In those days, everybody within the Church itself was aware of this. Everything was kept inside and covered up

Dutch language news article:
http://www.powned.tv/nieuws/binnenland/2011/12/afkeer_van_kerk_schokt_prieste.html