Right now, representatives from nine countries including the United States are secretly meeting in a luxury hotel in Beverly Hills to negotiate the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement, a trade agreement with the potential to contain intellectual property provisions that go beyond ACTA.
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Post- SOPA and PIPA, What’s Next? No Legislation, More Innovation.
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We’ve seen time and again that consumers are willing to pay at a price point that makes sense for them – this is Economics 101. When new business models emerge, artists and fans win. It’s only the traditional distributers and gatekeepers (we’re looking at you, MPAA and RIAA) who lose.....
Read more »LibreOffice and XBMC Join SOPA Strike
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In the mean time, more Internet companies join the strike, such as The Document Foundation with their LibreOffice website (still allowing access to the rest of the site) and the XMBC project's website, saying "Today we are proud to stand together with organizations around the world to protest SOPA and its Senate counterpart PIPA
Read more »EU Commission Paves the Way for Privatized Net Censorship
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“In line with ACTA and SOPA in the US, the Commission wants to impose privatized censorship schemes where companies (ISPs, payment processors) would directly ‘cooperate’ with the entertainment industry to censor their services."
Read more »FSFE concerned about Nortel patent sale
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Competition authorities are investigating the sale of 6000 patents from Nortel, a bankrupt telecommunications equipment manufacturer, to a consortium of Apple, Microsoft and four other companies. FSFE considers it a serious risk to competition in the mobile technology space, and Free Software as a whole, if those companies acquire these patents.
Read more »Mozilla Public License 2.0 is out -- and GPL-compatible
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Earlier this week, the Mozilla Foundation published the Mozilla Public License (MPL) version 2.0. This is a major update to their flagship license, which covers most of the Foundation's own free software projects, as well as others'.
Read more »Stop Online Piracy Act
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Everything vou wished you really didn't need to know about this internet-killing Act.
Read more »An Alternative to SOPA: An Open Process Befitting an Open Internet
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This important initiative allows YOU to post YOUR ideas on an alternative to SOPA and PIPA being planned by US senators.
Free Software requires a Free Internet!
Horseplay and Injuries on the Job
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What is the legal definition of horseplay and how can if affect your workers compensation claim? If horseplay is within the regular scope of your job, your claim can still be valid. If you are a victim of horseplay in your job you claim is certainly valid, the accomplished workers compensation lawyers at Bollwerk, Ryan & Tatlow LLC can help you receive the compensation that you deserve.
Read more »Mulitnational Seeks To Hijack "Koha" NZ Trademark; Original Developers Asking for Help
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Now we have the ridiculous situation that they will deny the very people who originally developed Koha the right to use that name. (Link to history of dispute at end of article)
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Over 1 Million Views for "NO to ACTA!" Video! Now, take Action!
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With more than 1 million views in less than one week (600k on Youtube and almost 500k on La Quadrature du Net's mediakit), the “NO to ACTA!” video became an instant hit: #1 Top Rated, #1 Most Viewed, #2 Top Favorited and #5 most Discussed this week on Youtube's “News and Politics” section!
Read more »Remote System Administration
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Andolasoft provides Remote System Administration, Linux Server Management, RoR Installation, Tier 1 Support, Amazon EC2, Cloud Hosting Services, Infrastructure Monitoring, Cloud Support, GLPI, OCS, Remote System Management, Nagios and Remote System Administration comprehensively by experts.
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Chaos feared after Unix time-zone database is nuked
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An astrology company has purchased the rights to a historical atlas and then sued the maintainers of Unix time-zone data for infringing their copyright by using some elements from the atlas!
Read more »Amazon Kindle extinguishes the fire of learning
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To quote their TV commercial: "The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all."
This device does not kindle that fire -- it extinguishes it, with more of the same digital restrictions.
Victories of People-Powered Lobbying
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A moment like this proves that the lobbying power of a giant corporation doesn’t always carry a very bad idea to victory. Instead of listening to the lies of industry lobbyists and backing a deal that hurts the public interest, the DoJ listened to the people.
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