Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 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…
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Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 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…
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Have any suggestions for the 3 Count? Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 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…
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Got any suggestions for the 3 Count. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 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…
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Got any suggestions for the 3 Count. Let me know via Twitter @plagiarismtoday. 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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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: Fines for IP infringement will increase tenfold First…
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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: IP minister rules out ‘three strikes’ disconnection law…
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