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Deutsch: Urheberrechtsbeschwerde: Musikbibliothek offline

International Music Score Library Project (IMSLP), the largest public domain music library on the Internet, has been recently taken offline following a complaint from the UK's Music Publishers Association which convinced registrar GoDaddy to takedown their website.

The action was brought over a single 90 year-old classical piece by Rachmaninoff.

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Deutsch: Mangel an Netzneutralität und Open Standards gefährdet das Netz

"The Web is critical not merely to the digital revolution but to our continued prosperity-and even our liberty.

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Deutsch: Belgischer Gerichtshof bestätigt Creative Commons Lizenz

A local court in Nivelles, Belgium upheld in a case decided 26 October 2010 on the validity of the Creative Commons licence in a copyright infringement case when a music group published its music under CC BY-NC-SA.

In this case reported by Professor Séverine Dussollier of the University of Namur, a theatre adapted the music published by the band to make an advertisement for their theatrical season. The ad was broadcast on the national radio several times (with no attribution).

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Deutsch: 'Free Culture' 2010 in Barcelona

Barcelona was the capital of free culture at the end of October 2010, with two events - Oxcars and then the Free Culture Forum (FCF) - organized by Exgae for awarding and promoting free culture concepts across Europe and beyond.

The third edition of the Oxcars ceremony took place on 28 October 2010, with 1000 people joining the event on the spot and many more watching it live on the Internet.

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Deutsch: Britische Regierung will Open Data Lizenz einführen

A perpetual, royalty-free licence called Open Government Licence (OGL) allowing the re-use of Governmental and public information will be introduced by the UK Government.

"The Government grants a worldwide, royalty-free, perpetual and non-exclusive licence under the conditions laid out in the OGL.

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Deutsch: FSFE fordert weiterhin die Verbreitung freier PDF Reader

The Free Software Foundation Europe (FSFE) calls on all Europeans to seek out advertisements for proprietary PDF readers on their government's websites, and report them. In addition, FSFE has prepared a petition demanding an end to such advertising practices, and encourages the public to sign it.

"Every time that state websites link to non-free applications and encourage visitors to use them, they needlessly encourage citizens to throw away their freedom", says Karsten Gerloff, FSFE's President.

As websites such as pdfreaders.org demonstrate, Free Software PDF readers exist for all major operating systems.

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Deutsch: ENDitorial: Entwurf zum neuen CR-Urheberrechtsgesetz durchgesickert

A leaked draft of the new Czech Copyright Act was obtained by Pirate News at the beginning of August 2010, after the Ministry of Culture has initially declined the request of Czech Pirate Party to have access to the document three days after the draft was sent out for feedback to organizations affected by the proposal.

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