Features & News Roundup (7/03/2011 – 13/03/2011)
by malta on March 13th, 2011
Hey FreeCulturites! Check out this week’s first roundup of salient Internet freedom/copyright/free culture related news and features, from around the web.
This list is not exhaustive in any way and we aim to improve it…with your help! If you stumble/read interesting topics you’d like us to showcase in this feature, please email malta@freeculture.org or post the link on our Facebook Group
- European Commissioner Kroes to address orphan works issue bit.ly/eoDx3p
- Times of Malta article on the link between lack of access to Apple’s iTunes store and illegal downloads on the island bit.ly/i4Nj2m
- EU and USA web privacy regimes are converging more as time goes by bit.ly/hV7Twg
- European Union Takes Actions on Patent Law; ACTA may see legal fight bit.ly/eUtSL4
- A new report on media piracy in emerging economies is stirring significant debate in internet copyright and open access circles bit.ly/eiuARs
- Internet Industry formulate copyright code of conduct bit.ly/dKfHlu
- The debate on whether open source software is a boon or a bane intensifies bit.ly/fYTtxJ
- Internet & Society Institute: innovation and creativity should be fostered through openness and collaboration, promotion of open standards, open access, and free/libre/open source software bit.ly/euQomF
- Two Visions for the Future of the Internet (USA Net Neutrality issue) bit.ly/eMt7gL
- The ACTA (Anti-Counterfetiting Trade Agreement) negotiated in secret between the world’s leading IP economies and later watered down spawns yet another questionable treaty in the works: bit.ly/dPPAIk The entire text is available at Knowledge Ecology International. An article of analysis on the treaty is available by M. Geist
- Intellectual Property enforcement permeates ICANN and US Internet Policy bit.ly/hoAWm0
- Google under legal attacks in Europe bit.ly/hAnHGx
Any thoughts on any of these stories? Share your insights in the comments below!
Until next week
-Neville
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