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Archive for 2012/09/06
80 percent of our “junk DNA” is biochemically active
Posted: 2012/09/06 in Education / Awareness, Stats / reports, Tech EvolutionAdd to that the fact that large stretches of DNA that appeared to serve no purpose actually contain over 400,000 regulators that help activate or silence genes, and the scientific community is surprised to say the least.
More:
http://gizmodo.com/5940914/the-human-genome-is-far-more-complex-than-scientists-thought
The first known case in which article 2.22 (6) of the Benelux Convention on Intellectual Property is used to classify a hosting provider as intermediary, whose services are used to infringe on trademark rights
Posted: 2012/09/06 in Education / Awareness, Jurisprudence, Litigation, New Business Models, Stats / reportsFrench publishers want share in revenues for re-use of their content
Posted: 2012/09/06 in Copyright, Education / Awareness, Google, New Business Models, Public Policy, Stats / reportsFrench publishers, such as the French National Magazine Publishers’ Society (SEPM), want to renew the copyright discussion in France, after the German Government supported a draft law to extents copyright protection to fragments of news articles. If the draft is converted to law, search engines, such as Google News, would have to compensate publishers for the republishing of titles and first paragraphs.
French anti-piracy agency Hadopi only sued 14 people in 20 months. The anti-P2P authority sent out over 1.1 million warning letters
Posted: 2012/09/06 in Copyright, Education / Awareness, Enforcement, Illegal File Sharing, Litigation, Public Policy, Stats / reports, Three StrikesOf 3 million IP addresses “identified” by Hadopi, 1.15 million were found to be pirating content and sent a warning letter (the first phase). Of those 1.15 million, 102,854 were given a second warning, and of those, 340 received a third strike. If the third strike is ignored, Hadopi can take legal action, and as of July 1, only 14 offenders have had a case filed with a French court as a result of Hadopi, and none have yet been to trial.
Heineken May Boycot Dutch Publisher Sanoma Media For Bad Decision Making And Especially Bad Taste
Posted: 2012/09/06 in Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Online advertising, Organized Crime, Public Policy, Stats / reportsThe publisher Sanoma Media owns Dutch magazine Nieuwe Revu, which had decided to employ celebrity criminal Willem Holleeder as a star columnist. Holleeder had abducted the Heineken CEO in 1993 and has been convicted for that crime as well as the crime of extortion in 2007. He still owes the Dutch DOJ about 18 million EUR.
Nieuwe Revu also thought it would be funny to publish a picture showing Holleeder signing his new contract as a columnist, while having a can of Heineken beer on the table:
Blog Geenstijl.nl is suggesting that Heineken may go and decide to reconsider its advertising spending in relation to Sanoma Media.
Dutch language news article:
http://www.geenstijl.nl/mt/archieven/2012/09/holleederfotograaf_woest_op_an.html
See also:
What To Do With A Guy Who Was Sentenced To 11 Years In Prison For Kidnapping Freddy Heineken And 9 Years For Extortion And Still Has To Pay 18 Million EUR To The Dutch DOJ?
http://vrritti.com/2012/09/04/what-to-do-with-a-guy-who-was-sentenced-to-11-years-in-prison-for-kidnapping-freddy-heineken-and-9-years-for-extortion-and-still-has-to-pay-18-million-eur-to-the-dutch-doj/
Dutch ANP Press Agency Made A Picture Of A Picture And Tried To Sell It
http://vrritti.com/2012/09/06/dutch-anp-press-agency-made-a-picture-of-a-picture-and-tried-to-sell-it/
Dutch ANP Press Agency Made A Picture Of A Picture And Tried To Sell It
Posted: 2012/09/06 in Copyright, Education / Awareness, New Business Models, Stats / reportsPress agency ANP said that Dutch celebrity criminal Willem Holleeder appearing on the cover of a famous Dutch magazine was considered to be a newsworthy event and therefore it should be allowed to make a picture of the cover of that magazine and sell it.
The photographer of the original picture disagreed however and following various media reports on ANP’s tactics, the press agency decided to quickly remove almost all of the pictures of the magazine cover it was selling.
Dutch language news article:
http://www.geenstijl.nl/mt/archieven/2012/09/holleederfotograaf_woest_op_an.html
Previously:
What To Do With A Guy Who Was Sentenced To 11 Years In Prison For Kidnapping Freddy Heineken And 9 Years For Extortion And Still Has To Pay 18 Million EUR To The Dutch DOJ?
http://vrritti.com/2012/09/04/what-to-do-with-a-guy-who-was-sentenced-to-11-years-in-prison-for-kidnapping-freddy-heineken-and-9-years-for-extortion-and-still-has-to-pay-18-million-eur-to-the-dutch-doj/
