April 2007
December 2006
March 2006
IViR - Publications - Bernt Hugenholtz - 'Why the Copyright Directive is Unimportant, and Possibly Invalid.'
by digitalmonkey
"In fact, the Directive does not do much for authors at all. It is primarily geared towards protecting the rights and interests of the ‘main players’ in the information industry (producers, broadcasters and institutional users), not of the creators...
January 2006
The Blog | James Love: A UN/WIPO Plan to Regulate Distribution of Information on the Internet | The Huffington Post
by digitalmonkey
"They are seeking to claim ownership rights in works they did not create, and which today they do not own. [...] They want to own what they simply transmit. And this will be quite harmful to the Internet".
December 2005
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