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13.
06.
2018
Julia Reda, Pirate Party MEP for Germany, drew our attention to the upcoming European Parliament Legal Affairs Committee vote on June 20th on Article 13 of the EU’s Copyright Directive. If passed, it will impose a link tax and setup a copyright censorship system. By adopting such a system, the EU wi... Read more
21.
05.
2018
Congress is considering S.2823 and H.3301, which would extend some cherry-picked parts of federal copyright to cover sound recordings made between 1923 and 1972. It would force streaming services to get licenses for those recordings, even though all that does is create a new subsidy for rightsholder... Read more →
20.
03.
2018
Recently, the US House approved the Fight Online Sex Trafficking Act. The Senate's cloture vote passed overwhelmingly Monday with only Wyden and Paul voting against it.
Like SESTA, FOSTA would censor any site that allows user supported content without actually hindering sex trafficking.
The Se... Read more →
12.
10.
2017
With computers in more and more of the things we buy, it is vital that we have a digital right of repair so we truly control the things we own. Corporations must not be able to lock down their products so that we have to pay them exorbitant amounts to fix them or prevent people from determining thei... Read more →
26.
09.
2017
With computers in more and more of the things we buy, it is vital that have a digital right of repair so we truly control the things we own. Corporations must not be able to lock down their products so that we have to pay them exorbitant amounts to fix them or prevent people from determining their s... Read more →
Further articles
Older articles
- Digital Right of Repair Hearing on Sept. 26th 18.09.2017
- Challenge NAFTA in RI on Friday 13.07.2017
- Thanks to Everyone who came out to the Day Against DRM 13.07.2017
- July 8th, Day Against DRM 29.06.2017
- Tonight: Stop DRM in HTML, Cambridge 20.03.2016
- Full video of The Remote-Controlled Society available 29.10.2015
- The Remote-Controlled Society Video Available 19.10.2015
- Tonight, Cory Doctorow Roundtable on the Corporate Lockdown of Computers 13.10.2015
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