Posts Tagged ‘France’

3 Count: Another Brick

By Jonathan Bailey • Mar 10th, 2010 • Category: 3 Count

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1: Pink Floyd, EMI Brawl Over iTunes Royalties
The band Pink Floyd and their record label, EMI are at odds over royalties earned from iTunes and other online music sites, The band’s contract, last updated in 1999, makes no mention of digital downloads and, [...]



3 Count: C’est la Levy

By Jonathan Bailey • Jan 14th, 2010 • Category: 3 Count

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1: France Planning Google Books Rival
France has announced that they are planning a book scanning project to rival Google Book Search. This project will include one million documents already scanned in a related database and will expand through deals with publishers. Though seen [...]



3 Count: Le Fail

By Jonathan Bailey • Jan 13th, 2010 • Category: 3 Count

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1: U.K. Ministers Water Down Copyright Powers
First off today, we have more updated on the Digital Economy Bill (or Digital Britain legislation as it is often referred to). It appears that there has been a push recently to weaken one of the bill’s [...]



3 Count: Tax This

By Jonathan Bailey • Jan 8th, 2010 • Category: 3 Count

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1: French Solution to Illegal Download and Copyright Infringement – Tax Google and Yahoo
First off today France, who is no stranger to controversial proposals for dealing with piracy on the Web, has recommended the taxing of search engines such as Google and Yahoo! [...]



3 Count: French Toast

By Jonathan Bailey • Dec 18th, 2009 • Category: 3 Count

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1: Fine for Google Over French Books
First off today, Google has suffered a setback with its Google Book Search project as a court in France has ordered Google to pay 300,000 euros (approx $430,000) to French publisher La Martiniere for the digitization of [...]



3 Count: Groovy Baby

By Jonathan Bailey • Oct 13th, 2009 • Category: 3 Count

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1: EMI Drops Suit Against Grooveshark Music Service, Licenses It Instead
First off today, what started as a negotiation and then turned into a lawsuit has now been resolved as a license agreement. Earlier this year, EMI sued music-streaming service Grooveshark for copyright infringement. [...]



3 Count: Frayed Knot

By Jonathan Bailey • Sep 16th, 2009 • Category: 3 Count

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1: Coldplay, Satriani Copyright Lawsuit Dropped
First off today, in something of a surprise move, guitarist Joe Satriani has dropped his lawsuit against the band Coldplay. Satriani had claimed that the band’s song “Viva La Vida” lifted elements from his 2004 song “If I [...]



3 Count: Deja Vu

By Jonathan Bailey • Jul 10th, 2009 • Category: 3 Count

This is daily column on Plagiarism Today where the site brings you three of the days biggest, most important copyright and plagiarism news links. If you want to offer your feedback on the column, use the contact form or just follow me on Twitter at @plagiarismtoday.
1: Embedding a YouTube Video May Cost You a Bundle [...]



3 Count: 98% Done

By Jonathan Bailey • May 13th, 2009 • Category: 3 Count

This is daily column on Plagiarism Today where the site brings you three of the days biggest, most important copyright and plagiarism news links. If you want to offer your feedback on the column, use the contact form or just follow me on Twitter at @plagiarismtoday.
1: French net piracy bill signed off
First off today [...]



Copyright 2.0 Show – Episode 110

By Jonathan Bailey • May 11th, 2009 • Category: Podcast

It is Monday again and that means that it is time for another episode of the Copyright 2.0 Show.
It was a busy week for copyright news with the EU taking the lion’s share of the news. Not only did they smack down France, propose a radical cross-border copyright system they also created a halfway decent, [...]