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Felger & Massarotti opened Tuesday's show on the Red Sox's upcoming three-game series with the Yankees. With both teams comfortably well ahead of the pack in a playoff race, does this series have any real meaning?
The guys preview the start of the Red Sox-Yankees series broadcasting live from Fenway prior to the start of tonight's contest and wonder about its significance. Does the pennant race really even matter? And why does the rivalry seem to lack more buzz than usual this year?
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text: I'm still feeling some type of way about the Grammys since they gave a platform to a known perpetrator of domestic violence. But I do think they're worth interrogating as a cultural touchstone reflecting the most popular and commercially successful music of today. That's a long way of saying: here's an open thread for your Monday morning! What do you think about last night's Grammy Awards?


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Speed of Swallow
It may not know the speed of a general unladen swallow (try "what's the speed of an unladen swallow") but it does at least give a reason why. Get more specific and click on the link for a European swallow, and it will give you the answer - even noting Monty Python as the question source.
For most people, Wolfram Alpha is going to be of limited use. Sure it can tell you the weather with pretty graphs and a few other stats, but really it's best for a set of technical questions that combine interpretation, calculation and display of data. Hopefully though it will keep improving as I find it better than Google for certain queries.
Inside Dell's containerized data centers
Re: Space in front of the racks ?
Have to agree, it will be a tight squeeze. Looking around, I believe a shipping container is 8' wide, so 96". Out of that comes 39" for the depth of the rack, and then 36" for the depth of a full-size server at the front. That leaves 21" at the back, which isn't a huge amount but I guess is just about enough to get into if you need to swap a cable or something. I sure wouldn't want to go right to the far end if I was claustophobic though.
Dabs.com courier goes titsup
I've used Dabs for business many times, and their 1-3 day delivery service normally turns up the next day - even for orders made late in the day. This is to London though, so the delivery network around here is probably better than average. They even managed to get the right address, unlike some other firms I might mention who confuse us with the offices down the road.
Perhaps business accounts get better service than residential orders.
BBC fixes BT Home Hub auto-vomit bug
The BeBox may not be the most stable piece of hardware in the world (quite an understatement really), but we've never had a problem with iPlayer on it. That's with our, albeit small, office of people all watching the Olympics at the same time - no resets at all during the last couple of weeks.
Singapore forum 'scammer' faces caning and prison
The OED has...
"2g. Computing. A rotatable disc used to store data in digitally coded form, e.g. in a magnetic coating or optically. Cf. compact disc s.v. COMPACT ppl. a.1 II.1c, floppy disc s.v. FLOPPY a. 2, hard disc s.v. HARD a. 22c, optical disc s.v. OPTICAL a. 6.
See the note to the etymology for the spelling of disc in this sense."
...and in the etymology notes...
"The earlier and better spelling is disk, but disc is now the more usual form in British English, except in sense 2g, where disk is commoner as a result of US influence."
...so there.
Get 'em while they're hot: critical security fixes from Microsoft, Apple
IE bug, not Safari bug
"By default, Safari downloads files, without any user prompting, to the Windows desktop."
I don't believe anyone would classify that as a bug. It may not be the behaviour some users desire (in which case change it), but in itself it isn't a security risk.
"IE in some cases then executes those files."
WTF? Why would IE suddenly decide to execute a file downloaded by another piece of software. That *does* look like a bug MS need to fix - fast.
Virgin Media and BPI join forces to attack illegal filesharing
How many printers will receive these letters?
Coincidentally, a recent study shows how easy it is to frame someone for downloading copyright files using Bittorrent. In fact, they managed to have warning letters sent to their own networked printers, access points etc.
It would be interesting if someone did this in the Virgin network and got them sending letters to themselves :-) Anyone interested should read:
Microsoft slams OEMs over XP SP3 install cock-up
Even worse!
If this was an issue that was previously unknown about, then I could sympathise with MS.
However, by their own admission, they knew about this issue beforehand. So they released an update, with an issue that they already knew about, and then are surprised when it causes problems?
(Knowing that something like this would happen, I've held off updating anything until the issues are all resolved)
Freesat launches in UK
I'm confused now. We have had a service called Freesat from Sky at work for a while now - it was the simplest and cheapest way to get TV. This offering looks to be identical - same service, same one-off install cost, etc., even including the name - but it's not being offered through Sky. Is it the same thing - just now offered by companies other than Sky?
UK net registry battles coup d'etat
Nothing new here
A number of years ago, Nominet had exactly the same 'problem' of building up a surplus. It has already reduced the pricing of domain names to resolve this problem. If it reduced pricing much more, I suspect it would either start to make a loss or would be at risk of doing so were their running costs to change.
Nominet should always have some surplus for unexpected cost increases and so that it can invest back into the system. Their current policy of managing the surplus would seem to be sound - put it into projects that benefit the domain community as a whole. One third of the surplus has already been allocated for these purposes.
These three people just want to gain a windfall from Nominet - however, whilst they are 'members' through paying subscriptions, they are not shareholders and therefore should not entitled to any of the surplus.
IBM smacks rivals with 5.0GHz Power6 beast
I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Fluorinert - I once worked with some Cray machines that used the stuff. Conducts heat away better than air, and is electrically insulating so less of a problem if it leaks. I don't know of any modern machines that use it though? The trend seems to have been to use large quantities of standard processors rather than specialist chips, and so I imagine there is less need to use specialist cooling techniques.
Red Green Ken v Porsche in battle of the polls
A survey backing Ken?
If Ken does have a survey backing him, then it will pretty much be the first one he's ever commissioned that does. Normally he has a consultation for some plan, the majority reject the idea, but he goes ahead anyway. That's how we got the congestion charge in the first place, and the extension to the west.
I'm more inclined to believe Porsche to be honest. Certainly everyone I have asked (car driver or not) is against the £25 tax.
Virgin Media taps Microsoft in lengthy email outage
Microsoft Exchange always seems to have given problems to Blueyonder, now Virgin, which is why I never use their email service. Personally I think Sky went down the right route by outsourcing it all to a company like Google - although the way the migration was handled obviously was pants.
Virgin should do a deal with Google / Hotmail / Yahoo or someone to run their email and concentrate on running the core network.
Web startups crumble under Amazon S3 outage
Details from Amazon
Details of what caused the outage were also posted to the blog:
QVC debuts Venturer HD DVD player
Only 1080i
According to the QVC website, it will only output at 1080i, not 1080p. I also wonder if there are any compatibility problems - remember the problems with ordinary DVD when that came out.
Amazon claims amazing Christmas
Re: They take the money OK...
I ordered a gift certificate by email earlier this year, but found out that the recipients email had changed. Contrary to your experience I found it easy to get it re-issued. All I did was fill out the contact form explaining the situation, and they cancelled the code and refunded the money immediately. I then just re-ordered it with the new details.
To be honest, the problem with the email not getting through is most likely going to be at the recipients end. Amazon have sent the order out and therefore debited your account. Of course their customer services should really respond within a day, so can appreciate the frustration. Personally I trust Amazon enough that I'd just order a new one to go to myself and deal with the old one later. It's just a code, so they can see if you have used it before issuing a refund, and you can then just send the code to your intended recipient.
Western Digital drive is DRM-crippled for your safety
Class Action?
I wonder how long before someone starts a class action against WD? The advertising clearly states that it can hold MP3, video, HD video etc. but makes no mention that you can't share those file types.
Guess I won't be buying any WD products in the future. Still, there is plenty of competition in this market already.
90mph police chief cops 42-day ban
@Dazed and Confused - Fines
> > Perhaps we should have a system like Finland
> > where the level of the fine is proportional to the
> > offender's income.
> This idea comes up every few years.
> Would you support the idea that the unemployed were given longer jail
> sentences, coz they've got got more time on their hands?
I support a system where the punishment relates to the individual. Pretending that a particular punishment (such as a standard fine) means the same to everyone is nonsense. For someone on a low income, a £1,000 fine would be a massive deterrent, but to a high income person it would be pocket change.
Unfortunately this government seems to believe in fines for everything - especially those traffic offences that have been decriminalised and put into the hands of councils. There is a benefit though - I can now drive down bus lanes and ignore a number of traffic rules, and all I have to do is settle the bill at the end of the month :-)
Effectively let off
This police chief will obviously have an car and driver for official duties, so this ban is going to make no difference to him at all. The fine is also negligible for someone on his salary.
Perhaps we should have a system like Finland where the level of the fine is proportional to the offender's income. This would give a fine of at least a few thousand pounds.
Inventor offers London Congestion Charge GPS gizmo
Limited Lifespan
When IBM takes over running the system, they will have an option to be automatically charged when you enter the zone. So this system will only have a limited lifespan.
FAST cracks down on pirates near Penzance
"The Federation"
Sounds a lot like "The Empire"...I wonder if they have a cool army of stormtroopers.
Mac OS X 10.5 Leopard - Finder
@James Bassett
Actually, I agree with James to an extent. I used Macs at school a lot, so I have always known that the menu bar changes according to the application in focus. This used to be fine when we had the early Macs (Mac, Mac Plus, SE, etc.) with their tiny screens. Back then you always ran an application full screen, and so the menu bar appeared next to the application.
Since LCD technology became cost effective, screen sizes seem to keep going up. We now buy screens with 1680x1050 resolution, but I expect the next set of screens we purchase to be 24" at 1920x1200. With so much screen space, there is no longer any need for people to always run their applications maximised. As a result the menu bar for the application no longer appears near the application itself.
I don't think anyone could deny this is counter-intuitive. It is only natural that different parts of the same application should be put together in the window. I believe Apple are regretting having this layout and would not be surprised if the transparent menu bar is the first step to it disappearing altogether :-)
Is storage becoming IT's Hummer?
Two different technologies
Virtualisation and centralised storage can both help to reduce power in different ways.
With virtualisation, you can reduce your processor count by making one piece of hardware work harder. The processor will of course use a few more watts, but overall by eliminating one or more machines you reduce the energy use.
With a SAN/NAS, you avoid having to purchase many servers with more storage than is initially required, or with the possibility to upgrade in the future (and hence beefier power supplies). Instead you concentrate all your storage and can reduce your drive count overall. Avoid having lots of little RAID arrays, and instead have one or more larger SANs or NAS. It's also much easier to manage capacity since upgrading the storage on a server (real or virtual) can be done in software.
Who cares if storage arrays start using proportionally more power when the number of servers and overall power consumption is going down?
Of course the downside of both approaches is that if something breaks, a good proportion of your services disappear suddenly :-)
IBM grabs London congestion charge deal
At last...
I travel into London once or twice a week, so have to pay for single days rather than a week or month at a time. The current website is appalling. For a start it is always having problems - I had to spend all of Monday trying to pay online, and it's half-term so it shouldn't exactly be overloaded! In the end I gave in and phoned them up. Even when you do manage to use it, it has obviously been cobbled together from all sorts of bits and pieces.
I hope IBM will produce a much better website. Having it automatically debit your card is something I have long wanted. It would be very simple to add, but Crapita won't do it because otherwise they wouldn't be able to fine so many people who forget!
Unfortunately the congestion tax is just another example of a system where there is no onus on the provider to give good customer service. The public have no choice but to pay it so why bother making it easy?
TV makers go ape for 100Hz LCDs
Great...more delays
I can just imagine watching live sports on one of these. With the delay at the transmitter encoding the image, the delay decoding and now further delay whilst it analyses the picture, the match will be over just as you are seeing the kick-off.
Google, Yahoo! and Amazon sued over email patent
Vanilla SMTP?
Surely this covers plain vanilla SMTP? If I send a message to a remote mail server, that mail server interprets and routes the message deciding on whether the user exists, is on vacation or doesn't exist etc.
In fact there are probably email systems pre-dating SMTP that do this - so plenty of prior art.
Lawyer questions Tories' plan to reform Data Protection Act
Don't make things worse
I have to process data under the DPA and the act is fine as it is. It covers good data management, and is not burdensome at all - on the whole the DPA is a pretty good piece of legislation.
I doubt you will find many people who do not think that data should be processed securely, inaccurate data should be corrected and out-of-date data removed. It's all good data management practice - and I suspect if the act was repealed a lot of companies would still follow the same principles anyway.
Court rules 3G licences weren't VAT inclusive
All explained...
The operators wanted to claim VAT back to offset the lack of revenue from the licences. With normal 2G/2.5G phones offering nearly everything most people wanted, the uptake of 3G was never going to be enough for the operators to make a profit on the amount spent for the licences.
Since the court has decided that the licences didn't include VAT, the operators can't claim VAT back as they might on any other product or service that they buy. They won't have to pay any extra though, as no VAT was payable in the first place.
Goodbye ICSTIS, hello PhonePayPlus
Won't change the staff though...
Re-branding won't change the staff that actually run ICSTIS, who don't seem to know what they are doing. I complained once about a premium rate scam and a while later got an email back from them asking to call with more details. The email had been openly copied to a number of other people who had apparently also complained about the same scam! A minor breach of the data protection act perhaps, but it simply should not happen with such an agency.
Games firm pursues 500 pinball 'pirates' through UK courts
Email Addresses
"The partner, and another who spoke about the campaign, said they were also worried about being threatened or spammed, and were worried about the welfare of their female employees."
Shame that the email addresses for their entire staff are readily available on their website then:
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Nai - Supporting Open Media in Afghanistan
Latest news and information about Nai and the media industry
Unknown gun men killed on local correspondent in BalkhSeptember 17, 2014
Unknown armed men killed Palwasha Tokhi one of the ex- correspondents of the Radio Bayan at her house in Mazar city.
She worked for 5 years as correspondents for Radio Bayan in Northern provinces of Afghanistan and she went to do her master degree two years ago in Thailand country unknown armed men entered her house and killed her with knife after she was taken to the Hospital she passed away. read more....
One correspondent injured in blast took place in KabulSeptember 16, 2014
During a terrorist attack occurred in front of the Superme Court early this morning in the capital city of Kabul one correspondent who was passing by was injured with other Kabul citizens he was taken to hospital.
Zia Daud who is working for Maiwand Tv is hospitalized in one of the Kabul city hospitals and his wait has been injured during the attack carried out. read more....
Violence against local correspondents in Ghazni should be recognizedSeptember 04, 2014
During the terrorist attacks which was carried out on Thursday in Ghazni Province despite of the local residents injuries a number of the local correspondents were injured and some of the other journalists were beaten by the National security directorate staffs.
Based on the Nai information the National Tv station correspondent Rahim Aria with his colleague was injured. read more....
Reasons should be clear on Shamshad Tv station Fire in Mazar cityAugust 28, 2014
Shamshad Tv station was caught fire on the 25,August 2014 at 9:00 Am which completely destroyed the technical equipment of the station such as receiver and other necessary equipment.
Local residents have claimed that the reason for the fire was the power shortages overall investigation began for further details about the event. read more....
Nai Feels sorry for New York times Reporter being trappedAugust 20, 2014
New York Times reporter Matthew Rosenberg for writing a topic over Afghanistan Election process was called barred by the Justice and Judicial departments of Afghanistan, he will not leave the country until his case is closed.
Mr, Rosenberg had to come Afghanistan to cover the Afghanistan Election process by reporting to New York Times, according to the Afghan Officials he has published a report indicating the newspaper reported that powerful figures in the government were discussing forming an interim government as a way to rescue the country from the impasse following the election. read more....
Nai severely condemns violence against a correspondentAugust 10, 2014
Local Tv stations Khurshid and Rah-e-Fardah camera men were beaten by the Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai campaigners while filming the auditing process of the second round of the presidential Election in Independent Election Commission IEC compound, their film cassettes were also seized.
This action launched by the Ashraf Ghani Ahmadzai campaigners is against the law and the perpetrators of the case should be identified by the security forces and introduced to the courts. read more....
Heavy storm paralyzes local radio station in KhostAugust 02, 2014
Heavy storm hit the local radio station called Suli Paigham which severely damaged the equipment and the building of the radio station in Khost Province.
Nai Supporting Open Media in Afghanistan has demanded some financial assistant over reconstruction of the building and purchasing of some of the technical equipment. read more....
Nai holds Social media week for the third time
Social media week was held in Nai head quarter while the enemies of the freedom of speech willing to limit the access to social media in Afghanistan.
Nai main office had celebrated the social media week three years ago and had demanded the social cultural and training section of UNESCO to register this week in to their calendar and recognize it as officially. read more....
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Playaway is the easiest way to listen to a book on the go. An all-in-one format, the player and content are combined in one 2 ounce unit and it comes with everything you need to start listening immediately. No separate player needed, no CDs, no downloads - just press play! "No saris. No scents. No spices. No music. No lyricism. No illusions. This is India now. Balram Halwai is a complicated man. Servant. Philosopher. Entrepreneur. Murderer. Over the course of seven nights, by the scattered light of a preposterous chandelier, Balram tells us the terrible and transfixing story of how he came to be a success in life -- having nothing but his own wits to help him along. Born in a village in the dark heart of India, Balram gets a break when he is hired as a driver for a wealthy man, two Pomeranians (Puddles and Cuddles), and the rich man's (very unlucky) son. Through Balram's eyes, we see India as we've never seen it before: the cockroaches and the call centers, the prostitutes and the worshippers, the water buffalo and, trapped in so many kinds of cages that escape is (almost) impossible, the white tiger. And with a charisma as undeniable as it is unexpected, he teaches us that religion doesn't create morality and money doesn't solve every problem -- but decency can still be found in a corrupt world, and you can get what you want out of life if you eavesdrop on the right conversations."


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5 bedrooms, 2 full baths, sleeps 9 people, outside shower
Welcome to the Avalon home designed and featured in the American Country Home Store's national catalog! This charming cottage, in one of south Jersey's most exclusive shore communities, is perfect for a relaxing vacation and creating lifelong memories. Located in a quiet residential neighborhood on the north end of the island across from the Avalon Recreation Complex, the house is within walking distance to the beach, marina, park, shopping and restaurants. The house features 4 bedrooms and one den, sleeping up to 9 people; two full bathrooms plus an outside shower; inside and covered outside dining areas; three outside porches for gathering and relaxation; a sunset view of the inland waterway; a fully equipped kitchen; televisions in the living room, den and master bedroom, free cable and internet; full sized washer and dryer; and an outdoor storage shed for bicycles and beach gear. The home is perfect for family vacations or 2-3 couples looking for a pre- or post-season getaway. Comfort, privacy and relaxation are readily available for your family and friends. To fully appreciate the amenities of our home, we invite you to read our renter reviews. Our aim is to provide a memorable shore experience!
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On April 17, Carruth Cellars Winery offered a preview of the San Diego International Wine Show, which will be held April 26 and 27, from 1 to 5 p.m. at the Del Mar Fairgrounds Paddock. Wine from Europe, South America, and the Valle de Guadalupe in Baja California will be at the San Diego International Wine Show, giving attendees a flavor of some of the best wines in the world.
Visit www.sandiegointernationalwineshow.com.
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The NFL offseason is officially upon us which means that the 31 teams not named the Seattle Seahawks are trying to figure out ways that they can improve to challenge the Super Bowl champs for their crown next season. Free agency and the draft are two major sandboxes that teams play in to try and craft a winner, as both veteran and rookie players are looking to make impacts with new teams desperate for their help.
One of these teams happens to be the Atlanta Falcons and one of the top free agents, Michael Johnson, happens to have tied to the Atlanta area as he played his college ball with the Georgia Bulldogs.
Naturally, this has led to many wondering if he'd be open to coming home and signing with the Falcons, something the defensive end said he wouldn't mind doing.
There was one intriguing name of a veteran pass-rusher thrown out at the Senior Bowl. Once again, this is not necessarily a player on the Falcons' wish list, but he was brought up in a discussion regarding the Falcons and free agency. As I was told, this player wouldn't mind "coming home'' to Atlanta.
That player Vaughn McClure was so coyly referring to is Johnson and he'd fill a gigantic need of the Falcons on their defensive line. The question though is if the Falcons have enough money sign Johnson has he's not going to take a hometown discount just because he happened to go to a popular Georgia college.
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Finals Week Howl
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But, rather than creating increased control, isn't Amazon (and maybe at some point, Google) further democratizing the selection of what we read? With lower barriers to entry for publishing/distribution, it's a much freer market for aspiring authors. Is the point that some people (I guess, the authors who have already made it) want to preserve the agent-publisher complex as gatekeeper to literary respectability? Take a look around your average mass-market bookstore (and best-seller list); it's not as though this system has produced a shining paradigm of literary sophistication…
As unpleasant as talk of "content providers" may be, I think it also might serve as a wakeup call to the class of authors like Le Guin, who seem to regard their work as singular, sovereign creations outside of the limits of IP law. Oh, I'm sorry, maybe you DON'T get to dictate whether people can put your work online and read it there.
I can't see that we (as a culture) would be any worse with Amazon/Google providing an open forum for writers that, by virtue of being digital, would be inherently more accessible than any existing publisher. If anything, the "people who love books" would jump ship and educate the techies on good literature.
In any case, talented people will still continue to write more than any individual will ever be able to read.
@zybhjk oh and that linked Silicon Valley Watcher piece on "Don't be evil" appears to have been originally intended as an April Fools joke… How prescient.
@zybhjk Seems to me Ms Le Guin should be able to decide whether or not her work is put online; and "fair use" shouldn't permit Google to shove up snippets in order to attract views to paid ads without compensating the author of said snippets.
True, that publishing is to some extent democratized. But there will always be "gatekeepers" of one kind or another (eg literary critics with a wide following). Try visiting Authonomy.com and see how that works. But dominance by one or two gatekeepers is really not a great idea.
Hello there @zybhjk (Maria here.) Well, I fully agree with your last sentence. But the rest, no no. Amazon and Google make it easy to publish a book, yes. But to bring that book to the attention of interested readers is another matter entirely. Traditional publishers will back a book that they think they have a chance of selling; a number of factors go into that decision. With any luck they will help the author build an audience, set up readings and reviews and so on. This is not a role that Google or Amazon are in any position to play. The point being, the raw digital publication of books is one thing, one which we can certainly congratulate Amazon and Google for facilitating, but the question of marketing and distribution is a whole other kettle of fish, one that would be ill-served by the emergence of a publishing monopoly or duopoly.
The existing law quite clearly ix-nays the copying and distribution of in-copyright works, so I'm not quite sure what your point is there.
@zybhjk Good point about the April Fools exaggerations in the SV Watcher piece! All the quotes from Eric Schmidt et al. in the piece are legit, though (see e.g. http://www.reuters.com/article/2008/06/12/us-google-idUSN1119985120080612), and generally speaking, Google has backed off using the motto publicly.)
@barnhouse @scrooge There are a variety of exceptions for copyrighted works, including critical quoting (wildly ambiguous case law, generally small excerpts are okay, but what does this mean for poetry criticism, for example?), parody/satire (generally well-supported), and (sometimes) musical sampling (although hip-hop remix producers get raided by the FBI regularly). These are all poorly articulated now, and I am just voicing support for clarifying them (a la Lawrence Lessig), a process that would hopefully identify the limits of a copyright holder's control over their work (i.e., the MPAA asserting that vcr broadcast recording and later, dvd copying and storage are not protected fair use). My hope would be that, in the case of e-books, consumer freedoms are extended in a platform-agnostic way.
IANAL, etc. Copyright ramble over.
A broader question this raises about publishing is if the blockbuster-subsidy model is tenable long-term. It would be nice to assume that publishers will continue to support a wide class of talented writers with book advances, but if they are no longer the sole means through which authors can be successful (there are new gate keepers), a free market would have the blockbuster authors distribute their own work and accrue all profits directly (or use the threat of doing so to negotiate a more favorable contract with the publisher). In the long run, this would eliminate the indirect subsidies (for better writing) which Auletta supports. A similar dynamic is happening in TV (for example, with Mad Men winning Emmys while simultaneously under cancellation threat) and music (where diminishing income from record deals has led bands to focus on alternative revenue sources like touring).
Great piece though, thanks for tying all these issues together.
Here are three thoughts:
– The current copyright system is insane. Any rents (because that's what they are) paid to creators above and beyond the bare minimum it would've taken to incentivize them to produce in the first place are a deadweight loss to the economy and to society. Would Ursula K. Le Guin have written The Left Hand of Darkness if she knew she would not still be receiving royalties on it in 2011? Contrary to popular belief, economics cares about utility, not money. And every dollar Le Guin collects on royalties for works she wrote 40 years ago could be plausibly said to represent a theft of utility from both potential readers of her book (who choose not to read it because they don't want to pay for it) and from actual readers (who are less able to buy other utility-enhancing goods and services because of the money they spent on her book).
– Suppose I write a nice long review of The Left Hand of Darkness on by blog, in which I quote my three favorite lines from the book. Now say I include an Amazon link on which I get a commission. Do I need her permission to do this? If not, how is my situation different from Google's, aside from that they have automated this process?
– Google and Amazon have every incentive to publish as many (e-)books as they possibly can, and effectively promote them to people who might like to buy them, because their marginal cost is virtually zero. Traditional publishers, for whom each book published is a large financial risk, have an incentive to heavily promote guaranteed bestsellers and to do small, poorly promoted runs of books they think won't sell well. The current system, based on advances of royalties, more resembles a lottery for writers of variable and unknown quality who are lucky or have connections in the publishing industry. As a reader, I care more about the quantity of good and interesting literature (and nonfiction) than about the population of "professional writers." If we really want all of society to pay to maintain this corps of "professional writers," there are far more efficient ways to do it than this.
@Jon Custer Just to be clear, I'm no techno-utopian. Throughout recorded history there have been exactly three types of people who pursue art as a sole occupation:
(1) Those of independent means, who either (a) become famous and successful or (b) don't.
(2) Those who struggle in poverty and obscurity for a time, then because famous and successful.
(3) Those who struggle in poverty in obscurity for a time, then either give up or die, and who later (a) become famous/successful or (b) don't.
The chance of Google and Amazon changing any of this is vanishingly slim. But I would argue that the chance that preserving our current system, or returning to an earlier system, will magically produce a population of middle-class professional artists is even slimmer.
@Jon Custer As to your first point, maybe I am not the guy to ask, since I am a writer. But yes, it seems fair that artists should have the incentive of a lifetime ownership stake in their own work. Some would argue that the artists' immediate heirs should also be able to benefit: spouses and children.
Your second question. Your situation is different from Google's because your quotation is clearly fair use.
Third … you're really finessing when you say that Google and Amazon can "effectively promote" books, there. So far at least, neither Google nor Amazon has offered any "effective" means of helping emerging authors much at all. In fact Amazon scrapped several of the most useful features they used to offer through their author pages; time was an author could post videos and links on the pages of his own book, but you can no longer do that (not sure why.)
I also disagree that the current publishing system is a lottery for writers "who are lucky or have connections." There are elements of blind luck and nepotism in publishing, like there are in every business. But every editor I've ever met wants to find and promote good work. It's not a business you get into because you think you're going to get rich, I don't reckon. In any case, you claim that "there are more efficient ways" of maintaining writing as a viable profession. Okay, so what would that really look like? How do you put authors in touch (really in touch, I mean) with the maximum number of readers who'd be interested in reading their work?
@Jon Custer Why focus on the authors? LeGuin is doing what's allowed by the legislation passed at the behest of massive IP hoarders – the IP having been created by people who signed their rights away at the very beginning. IP that has much greater demand than some under-appreciated sci-fi author. So who's really thieving the utility? Is LeGuin supposed to nobly forgo her rights while corporations profit?
@barnhouse "Some would argue that the artists' immediate heirs should also be able to benefit: spouses and children."
I would not be one of those people. I'd like my immediate heirs to benefit from my lifetime of work too, and as it turns out, there's a mechanism for this… it's called life insurance. I'm not sure why "content producers" (which I agree is a truly vile term) think they ought to continue to be paid more or less forever for work they once did.
I think a much better approach to ensuring people can continue to be authors, musicians, etc; is more radical: tax the living crap out of the rich and use the money to provide essential services – health care, child care, better EITC, etc. That way prospective authors could either take some minimal job or subsist on savings from a previous job while they create. Then: let a million flowers bloom.
This would be way better than our current system, where the John Grishams of the world get rich on a few best-sellers, then coast forever; while tons of authors struggle on in poverty.
@SeanP That being said: thanks for yet another thoughtful essay. Reading your work is always a pleasure.
@SeanP Indeed, another excellent piece by a wonderful writer (even though she probably won't be getting paid for it for all of eternity).
This article has certainly given me some food for thought, and I agree with most of what you said. However, I clicked on the links to your books, Dorkismo and Act Like A Gentleman, Think Like A Woman, and both links took me to the Amazon pages for both of them.
@LittleMissRuffin Very true!! I haven't altered those links in about forever, but I will now; thanks for pointing it out.
This is a nice roundup of the current copyright issues and links to further reading.
I do find LeGuin's position rather odd in relation to the content of her writing, which has often seemed to advocate anarchism and perhaps the communism which anarchism implies (no state to keep property lines in order). I guess the philosophical aspect of them was really quite hollow.
Thank you @Anarcissie for kind comment. You know, I don't think it necessarily follows that Le Guin's politics is hollow. We have got a pretty long way to go before progressives live in a world that reflects their politics even the tiniest bit; we live in the world that is, not the one we would prefer.
So long as we do have property, a condition of things that is not liable to end anytime soon, it seems to me logical and fair that authors, musicians and other artists should be compensated by royalties. A book or a song shares something of the character of an invention; they're artifacts that wouldn't have existed without one particular person's efforts. Those inventions that are interesting and useful to others surely should be rewarded beyond the deserts of those that are not? and commensurately with the value others found in them?
@barnhouse — The world is not going to change until we change it.
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TL;DR…just wanted to say that The Left Hand of Darkness is one of my favorite books ever.
I tried to buy The Left Hand of Darkness as an ebook the other day, but couldn't find it anywhere. It's frustrating that there are companies that will happily digitise it and sell it to me (paying Le Guin royalties, probably more than she would get from a physical bookshop) but that the author has prevented this.
I don't really understand Le Guin's objection to the scanning of books in copyright, so long as the authors have control over whether or not they are sold or distributed unlawfully.
@pointsofdata — LeGuin's position is self-contradictory (as well as an apparent reversal of her professed principles). See http://questioncopyright.org/freedom_doublespeak.
@Anarcissie Not so. Le Guin seeks to protect all authors, not just herself. To protect authorship itself, as a viable profession in our current circs. Maybe there is a better way to do the economy in the future, but that day is a long way off, and in the meantime I, for one would like to continue to have decent stuff to read. All Le Guin's writings and action on this matter address a bigger picture.
This is a great article.
Personally, I really like the Google books snippets. I often buy or check out books after reading the snippets from Google books. I don't think this limited preview is harmful to the authors, in my opinion.
Our copyright laws need some dang cleaning up, though, particularly since they haven't changed enough to keep up with changing technology.
I want authors to get paid for their work – I want them to get paid enough to live on and to keep producing books for me, and I don't like the idea of a large monopoly (because really, when has monopoly ever been good for competition?) controlling the publishing industry.
"The world's 130 million or so books" Do we really only have 130 books? I feel like it has to be more.
I love books so I think it's a bit cool.
The problem is, much like the "orphan works " thing they tried with illustration is it makes little attempt to actually FIND the copyright owner / creator. It assumes a lot of "I found it, fair use" which is total bollocks according to the Berne Convention, (which the US signed up to many years ago..) Nobody from the arts communities has any problem with libraries indexing old works for historical purposes, the problem is when some total cock steals your stuff to make money. If people stop paying for illustration, we'll stop doing it. It's that simple. Let's see your attempt at it. All your movies, games, comics, book covers, toys, wallpaper, sofas, dvd covers, they are all going to be ugly unless you pay artists a decent pounds wage.. Everything you own was designed by an artist. Look around you.
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When the swans turned my sister into a swan
I would go to the lake, at night, from milking:
The sun would look out through the reeds like a swan,
A swan's red beak; and the beak would open
And inside there was darkness, the stars and the moon.
Out on the lake, a girl would laugh.
"Sister, here is your porridge, sister,"
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"Go to sleep, go to sleep, little swan."
My legs were all hard and webbed, and the silky
Hairs of my wings sank away like stars
In the ripples that ran in and out of the reeds:
I heard through the lap and hiss of water
Someone's "Sister . . . sister," far away on the shore,
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I heard my harsh laugh go out to the shore
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Low mounds of the lake, the white stone swans:
The white, named swans . . . "It is all a dream,"
I whispered, and reached from the down of the pallet
To the lap and hiss of the floor.
And "Sleep, little sister," the swan all sang
From the moon and stars and frogs of the floor.
But the swan my sister called, "Sleep at last, little sister,"
And stroked all night, with a black wing, my wings.
In the shabby train no seat is vacant.
The child in the ripped mask
Sprawls undisturbed in the waste
Of the smashed compartment. Is their calm extravagant?
They had faces and lives like you. What was it they possessed
That they were willing to trade for this?
The dried blood sparkles along the mask
Of the child who yesterday possessed
A country welcomer than this.
Did he? All night into the waste
The train moves silently. The faces are vacant.
Have none of them found the cost extravagant?
How could they? They gave what they possessed.
Here all the purses are vacant.
And what else could satisfy the extravagant
Tears and wish of the child but this?
Impose its canceling terrible mask
On the days and faces and lives they waste?
What else are their lives but a journey to the vacant
Satisfaction of death? And the mask
They wear tonight through their waste
Is death's rehearsal. Is it really extravagant
To read in their faces: What is there we possessed
That we were unwilling to trade for this?
Her imaginary playmate was a grown-up
In sea-coal satin. The flame-blue glances,
The wings gauzy as the membrane that the ashes
Draw over an old ember --as the mother
In a jug of cider-- were a comfort to her.
They sat by the fire and told each other stories.
"What men want..." said the godmother softly--
How she went on it is hard for a man to say.
Their eyes, on their Father, were monumental marble.
Then they smiled like two old women, bussed each other,
Said, "Gossip, gossip"; and, lapped in each other's looks,
Mirror for Mirror, drank a cup of tea.
Of cambric tea. But there is a reality
Under the good silk of the good sisters'
Good ball gowns. She knew... Hard-breasted, naked-eyed,
She pushed her silk feet into glass, and rose within
A gown of imaginary gauze. The shy prince drank
A toast to her in champagne from her slipper
And breathed, "Bewitching!" Breathed, "I am bewitched!"
--She said to her godmother, "Men!"
And, later, looking down to see her flesh
Look back up from under lace, the ashy gauze
And pulsing marble of a bridal veil,
She wished it all a widow's coal-black weeds.
A sullen wife and a reluctant mother,
She sat all day in silence by the fire.
Better, later, to stare past her sons' sons,
Her daughters' daughter, and tell stories to the fire.
But best, dead, damned, to rock forever
Beside Hell's fireside-- to see within the flames
The Heaven to whosee gold-gauzed door there comes
A little dark old woman, the God's Mother,
And cries, "Come in, come in! My son's out now,
Out now, will be back soon, may be back never,
Who knows, eh? We know what they are--men, men!
But come, come in till then! Come in till then!
The saris go by me from the embassies.
Cloth from the moon. Cloth from another planet.
They look back at the leopard like the leopard.
And I. . . .
this print of mine, that has kept its color
Alive through so many cleanings; this dull null
Navy I wear to work, and wear from work, and so
To my bed, so to my grave, with no
Complaints, no comment: neither from my chief,
The Deputy Chief Assistant, nor his chief--
Only I complain. . . . this serviceable
Body that no sunlight dyes, no hand suffuses
But, dome-shadowed, withering among columns,
Wavy beneath fountains--small, far-off, shining
In the eyes of animals, these beings trapped
As I am trapped but not, themselves, the trap,
Aging, but without knowledge of their age,
Kept safe here, knowing not of death, for death--
Oh, bars of my own body, open, open!
The world goes by my cage and never sees me.
And there come not to me, as come to these,
The wild beasts, sparrows pecking the llamas' grain,
Pigeons settling on the bears' bread, buzzards
Tearing the meat the flies have clouded. . . .
When you come for the white rat that the foxes left,
Take off the red helmet of your head, the black
Wings that have shadowed me, and step to me as man:
The wild brother at whose feet the white wolves fawn,
To whose hand of power the great lioness
Stalks, purring. . . .
You know what I was,
You see what I am: change me, change me!
The postman comes when I am still in bed.
"Postman, what do you have for me today?"
I say to him. (But really I'm in bed.)
Then he says - what shall I have him say?
"This letter says that you are president
Of - this word here; it's a republic."
Tell them I can't answer right away.
"It's your duty." No, I'd rather just be sick.
Then he tells me there are letters saying everything
That I can think of that I want for them to say.
I say, "Well, thank you very much. Good-bye."
He is ashamed, and turns and walks away.
If I can think of it, it isn't what I want.
I want . . . I want a ship from some near star
To land in the yard, and beings to come out
And think to me: "So this is where you are!
Come." Except that they won't do,
I thought of them. . . . And yet somewhere there must be
Something that's different from everything.
All that I've never thought of - think of me!
(Rainer Maria Rilke)
He went up under the gray leaves
All gray and lost in the olive lands
And laid his forehead, gray with dust,
Deep in the dustiness of his hot hands.
After everything this. And this was the end.
-- Now I must go, as I am going blind.
And why is it Thy will that I must say
Thou art, when I myself no more can find Thee.
I find Thee no more. Not in me, no.
Not in others. Not in this stone,
I find Thee no more. I am alone.
I am alone with all men's sorrow --
All that, through Thee, I thought to lighten,
Thou who art not, O nameless shame ...
Men said, later: an angel came.
Why an angel? Alas, there came the night,
And leafed through the trees, indifferently.
The disciples moved a little in their dreams.
Why an angel? Alas, there came the night.
The night that came was no uncommon night:
So hundreds of nights go by.
There dogs sleep; there stones lie,
Alas a sorrowful, alas any night
That waits till once more it is morning.
For then beseech: the angels do not come,
Never do nights grow great around them.
Who lose themselves, all things let go;
They are renounced by their own fathers
And shut from their own mothers' hearts.
It was not dying: everybody died.
It was not dying: we had died before
In the routine crashes-- and our fields
Called up the papers, wrote home to our folks,
And the rates rose, all because of us.
We died on the wrong page of the almanac,
Scattered on mountains fifty miles away;
Diving on haystacks, fighting with a friend,
We blazed up on the lines we never saw.
We died like aunts or pets or foreigners.
(When we left high school nothing else had died
For us to figure we had died like.)
In our new planes, with our new crews, we bombed
The ranges by the desert or the shore,
Fired at towed targets, waited for our scores--
And turned into replacements and worke up
One morning, over England, operational.
It wasn't different: but if we died
It was not an accident but a mistake
(But an easy one for anyone to make.)
We read our mail and counted up our missions--
In bombers named for girls, we burned
The cities we had learned about in school--
Till our lives wore out; our bodies lay among
The people we had killed and never seen.
When we lasted long enough they gave us medals;
When we died they said, "Our casualties were low."
The said, "Here are the maps"; we burned the cities.
It was not dying --no, not ever dying;
But the night I died I dreamed that I was dead,
And the cities said to me: "Why are you dying?
We are satisfied, if you are; but why did I die?"
If, in an odd angle of the hutment,
A puppy laps the water from a can
Of flowers, and the drunk sergeant shaving
Whistles O Paradiso!--shall I say that man
Is not as men have said: a wolf to man?
The other murderers troop in yawning;
Three of them play Pitch, one sleeps, and one
Lies counting missions, lies there sweating
Till even his heart beats: One; One; One.
O murderers! . . . Still, this is how it's done:
This is a war . . . But since these play, before they die,
Like puppies with their puppy; since, a man,
I did as these have done, but did not die--
I will content the people as I can
And give up these to them: Behold the man!
I have suffered, in a dream, because of him,
Many things; for this last saviour, man,
I have lied as I lie now. But what is lying?
Men wash their hands, in blood, as best they can:
I find no fault in this just man.
The spirit killeth, but the letter giveth life.
The week is dealt out like a hand
That children pick up card by card.
One keeps getting the same hand.
One keeps getting the same card.
But twice a day -- except on Saturday --
The wheel stops, there is a crack in Time:
With a hiss of soles, a rattle of tin,
My own gray Daemon pauses on the stair,
My own bald Fortune lifts me by the hair.
Woe's me! woe's me! In Folly's mailbox
Still laughs the postcard, Hope:
Your uncle in Australia
Has died and you are Pope,
For many a soul has entertained
A Mailman unawares --
And as you cry, Impossible,
A step is on the stairs.
One keeps getting the same dream
Delayed, marked "Payment Due,"
The bill that one has paid
Delayed, marked "Payment Due" --
Twice a day, in rotting mailbox,
The white grubs are new:
And Faith, once more, is mine
Faithfully, but Charity
Writes hopefully about a new
Asylum -- but Hope is as good as new.
Woe's me! woe's me! In Folly's mailbox
Still laughs the postcard, Hope:
Your uncle in Australia
Has died and you are Pope,
For many a soul has entertained
A mailman unawares --
And as you cry, Impossible,
A step is on the stairs.
From my mother's sleep I fell into the State,
And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze.
Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life,
I woke to black flak and the nightmare fighters.
When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.


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Handsome Jedi
boba fett is a human: WRONG, HE'S A MANDALORIAN
all people with boba fett armor are boba fett, other than Jango fett: AGAIN THEY ARE ALL MANDALORIANS, THE ARMOR IS TRADITIONAL.
boba fett was eaten by the sarlacc; WRONG HE SAT AT IT'S JAWS FOR DAYS AND BURNED IT TO DEATH WITH A FLAME THROWER. HE'S A MANDALORIAN, THE HONEY BADGER OF ALIENS
((*sigh* those uneducated general public. 1 Boba Fett is a clone of Jango Fett, who was human. Mandalorian is a way of life, not a species, though the original Mandalorians were Taung. 2 the armor you see now is not traditional, it is an adaptation of thousands of years of fighting and many different groups and styles. The color represents something to each Mandalorian. 3 he actually was swallowed by the sarlaac, but his armor protected him from being digested. The sarlaac is a beast that assimilates whatever it eats into its own consciousness, taking up to 1,000 years to digest 1 person. He was able to blast his way out, and was eventually rescued by Dengar.))
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An important part of UNO's and CPACS' mission is to actively engage with the community. CPACS does this through a wide array of community and outreach programs and partnerships. Some of them are listed below, along with links to their Web sites for more information.
Aging with Passion & Purpose - a biennial conference on aging
Aviation Institute Special Events - including the Honors Convocation, Golf Classic, Information Fair and Durham Lecture
Center for Public Affairs Research (CPAR) - a research and community outreach unit of CPACS
Certificate in Fundraising Management (CFM) - a non-credit certificate program that provides in-depth training in vital areas of fundraising
Church Administration Institute - a six-week online series of courses designed to equip participants with an understanding of organizational concepts and practical techniques for managing effectively in the challenging church environment
Consortium for Organizational Research and Evaluation (CORE) - links faculty consultants from CPACS with governmental and nonprofit organizations
CPACS Technology Center - provides computer support for the faculty, staff and students of CPACS, including resources in the CPACS building such as classrooms, collaborating commons and conference rooms
Gandhi Award & Annual Symposium - awarded annually by the School of Work and given to honor individuals and organizations that exemplify Mahatma Gandhi's principles of nonviolence, selfless service and social action—which are consistent with social work values
Juvenile Justice Institute - works collaboratively with numerous city and county government agencies across the state to address issues surrounding juvenile delinquency and juvenile justice in Nebraska using best practices
London Program - a two-week study-abroad trip to England for students enrolled in an upper-division course
Midlands Superintendents Academy - a training program that provides current and aspiring school superintendents with the skills and knowledge that will help them successfully lead and manage school districts
Nebraska Center for Justice Resarch (NCJR) -created to develop and sustain research capacity internal to the State of Nebraska to assist the Legislature in research, evaluation, and policymaking to reduce recidivism, promote the use of evidence-based practices in corrections, and improve public safety.
Nebraska Certified Public Manager (CPM) Program - a comprehensive management development program specifically for managers in federal, state, and local government and in non-profit organizations, accredited by the National CPM Consortium
Nebraska Municipal Clerk Institute and Academy - an annual continuing education program provided for Nebraska municipal clerks, operated by the School of Public Administration, accredited by the International Institute of Municipal Clerks
NASA Nebraska Space Grant & EPSCoR - promotes aerospace-related research, education, and public service programs across Nebraska
Nebraska State Data Center (NSDC) - U.S. Census Bureau's initiative providing easy and efficient access to data and information
State Public Policy Initiative - includes reports completed for the Nebraska Legislative Planning Committee and other policy documents
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Starting from an overall understanding of the relevance of IP "from the idea to the market", the aim of this new fact sheet is to point out that in order to enforce IP rights it is vital that organisations be aware of the intangible assets they own and take steps to protect and properly manage them. In so doing, organisations having IP as an underlying business asset will be less susceptible to IP abuses.
Should an IP right infringement occur it is suggested that alternative mechanisms to resolve disputes are explored and that, only when this is not a viable solution, you enforce your rights through legal proceedings.
Every year, the European Commission publishes a report describing the customs detention of articles suspected of infringing intellectual property rights. Last month the European Commission published the report on the activities of 2013, concluding that there was a small decrease in the number of shipments suspected of violating intellectual property rights, but still almost 87,000 detention cases were registered.
Concerning the types of articles detained, clothing is at the top of the list.
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This summer issue of the European IPR Helpdesk Bulletin firstly presents an easy-to-use map of different free-of-charge initiatives available to assist SMEs with intellectual property related matters. Thinking on the growing relevance of designs in business, the Bulletin features an article on industrial design protection in the EU and the use of its grace period. An interview with a European agro/food biotech company underlines the relevance of IP in the biotechnology sector.
Regarding the research sector, this issue offers an interesting article on the DESCA 2020, a model consortium agreement tailored to be used in Horizon 2020. Two pieces featured by OHIM show the importance of IP enforcement via the outcomes of the first International IP Enforcement Summit and how the OHIM Academy plays a role in helping stakeholders throughout the EU.
The Innovaccess IP cost tool, a free-of-charge tool allowing the calculation of the costs related to different IP titles, the patent quiz and the Information Package on IP in Horizon 2020 complete this substantial fourteenth Bulletin issue.
Over 70 000 counterfeit goods were seized during a major Joint Customs Operation (JCO) code-named "ERMIS". JCO ERMIS was carried-out by the Greek Customs Administration and the European Anti-Fraud Office (OLAF), and also involved customs experts from the Commission, Member States, FYROM, Montenegro, Serbia and Turkey.
Algirdas Šemeta, Commissioner responsible for Customs and Anti-Fraud, said: "The ERMIS Operation shows, once again, the major added-value of working together to combat common risks. Counterfeit products put our consumers at risk and our businesses at a disadvantage. Strong cooperation, efficient information exchange and effective targeted actions, involving all enforcement authorities, is essential to tackle those who smuggle fakes. This Operation did just that, and the outcome shows the great results this yields."
For more information, please click here.
The European Commission has adopted two communications – an Action Plan to address infringements of intellectual property rights in the EU and a Strategy for the protection and enforcement of intellectual property rights (IPR) in third countries.
Infringements of IPR are a matter of high relevance to the EU, given the fact that they harm business and the market. According to OECD data, the annual loss from IPR infringements to the world economy is around €200 billion. In 2012 alone, EU border control agencies registered 90,000 cases of goods suspected of infringing intellectual property rights (compared to fewer than 27,000 in 2005).
The Action Plan sets out a number of actions to focus the EU's IPR enforcement policy on commercial scale infringements (the so-called 'follow the money' approach). According to the Commission, it foresees in particular:
For further information, please click here, here and here. To read the Action Plan, click here.
With the Directive 2004/48/EC on the enforcement of intellectual property rights and the Commission proposal for a Directive on trade secrets the European Union has set the framework for civil redress against the infringement and misappropriation of intellectual property (IP) within the EU. However, the dynamic evolution of the markets in which ideas, technologies and innovations associated with IP are developed and traded requires careful monitoring.
While the European Commission has procedures and tools for the monitoring of existing EU law and the in-depth analysis of potential problems, it seeks to establish closer links with experts and researchers in the field in order to proactively screen developments in the area of IP and their likely economic impacts.
To this end, the European Commission is establishing a list of economists, researchers and experts specialised in the economics of IP. On the basis of this list, the Commission will invite experts in the respective area to thematic workshops to discuss issues which are considered relevant for the economic context of IP.
Should you be interested and qualified, please indicate your interest using this link.
The Commission intends to hold the first economic workshop on 19 September to discuss the concepts of "commercial scale" and "commercial purpose" in the context of IP infringements.
For further information, please click here.
The Council of the European Union, in its composition of EU ministers responsible for competitiveness, adopted a general approach on the draft directive protecting against the theft of confidential business information.
The general approach adopted by the Council establishes a minimum level of harmonisation of civil laws across the EU, while giving member states the scope to apply stricter measures if necessary. It sets the limitation period for an action by the plaintiff at six years and guarantees the confidentiality of legal proceedings. It also aligns principles and legal definitions with existing international agreements.
The general approach paves the way to start negotiations with the European Parliament with a view to reaching an agreement at first reading. The European Parliament has not delivered its opinion yet.
This eLearning course has been developed under the Customs 2013 Programme to fill the knowledge gap appearing with the new EU Regulation (No 608/2013, see page 15) on customs enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR), applicable from 1st January, 2014.
There have been several important changes in the legislation that affect the way customs work on IPR enforcement. This short eLearning course contains all the key information you will need.
The course consists of approximately one hour of interactive material divided into five lessons as follows:
The EU Observatory on Infringements of Intellectual Property Rights has launched a survey among EU businesses and EU IP professionals who have an interest in the protection and enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights (IPR) in non-EU countries. The Observatory is carrying out the survey on behalf of the EU Commission (DG Trade), which has carried out similar surveys in the past.
The purpose of the survey is to gather information from those involved with and interested in IP rights in non-EU countries, in order to build up a picture of the reality of IPR protection and enforcement in countries outside the EU.
The Observatory will collate the responses and send them to DG Trade, which will then use them, along with information from other sources, to put together analyses of the situation in non-EU countries.
DG Trade will also use this information to compile its own reports on the general IPR enforcement scene in non-EU countries, as well as the situation in individual countries. The survey will be one of the tools used to help improve the IPR enforcement scene in non-EU countries, so the views of EU businesses and EU IP professionals with experience or interest in this area would be particularly welcomed.
To participate in this survey, please click here.
For further assistance on the survey, please email the EU Observatory on Infringements of Intellectual Property Rights at: email@example.com.
Rules to make it easier for national authorities to freeze and confiscate crooks' assets across the EU were approved by Parliament on Tuesday, February 25.
The draft law requires member states to enable the confiscation of criminal assets following a final conviction. It will also enable the authorities to confiscate assets even if the suspect or accused person is ill or has flown, e.g. through in absentia proceedings.
The agreement should be formally approved by the Council in the coming weeks. Member states will have 30 months to transpose the directive into their national laws. Ireland will take part in these arrangements, while the UK and Denmark will not.