Intellectual Property Law

global minilinks for 2009-02-20

By danny

• Italian Government to Research Skype Interception
  Growing attempt by governments seeking to understand and perhaps undermine encrypted VOIP.
• Rightsholders Scold Canada, China & Sweden for Internet Piracy
  Latest report by media industries to US government highlighting their top targets for new copyright legislation.
• Technical Aspects of the Censoring of Archive.org
  How the filtering practices of the UK Internet Watch Foundation interacted with Archive.org's caching system to block British access to innocent pages.
• Former MI5 Chief, Attacks Britain and US Over Surveillance
  Stella Rimmington, the real-life "M", says: "Since I have retired I feel more at liberty to be against certain decisions of the government, especially the attempt to pass laws which interfere with people's privacy."
• US ISP Censors Zimbabwean bloggers
  Bluehost removed a prominent Zimbabwean NGO's website, in the belief that they were breaking sanctions against the Zimbabwean government by taking money from Zimbabweans.
• The Decentralized Censorship of User-Generated Content
  How China outsources its censorship to hosting companies.
• UK Thinks EU Copyright Term Extension Goes Too Far
  UK disagrees with 95 year copyright extension, which means the fight will continue in the EU's Council of Ministers.
• UK Anti-Piracy Group Says Music Industry Going Wrong Way
  UK anti-piracy group Federation on Software Theft splits with music industry on government's Digital Britain strategy.
• Three Strikes not Coming to Germany, says Minister
  German minister feels that "Olivennes" model would not work in his country.

Full post as published by Electronic Freedom Foundation - Deep Links on February 20, 2009 (boomark / email).