RIAA is searching ways to lower the rate they pay music publishers and songwriters for the use of the lyrics and melodies with which they create sound recordings. RIAA argued that the rate hasn't been adjusted since 1981, and that piracy has devastated the music industry and that sales have plummeted because of illegal downloading even though publishing revenue has soared from ringtones and other new digital revenue streams. Obviously industry guess that musicians are not gonna like the idea. RIAA is also looking whether to sue or not manufacturers of new players that allow to record music directly from satellite radio since they consider this as unlicensed downloading.

All Danish ISP are blocking the access to Allofmp3 as a result of "a recent court ruling to a civil lawsuit which the IFPI (International Federation of the Phonographic Industry) brought against the Danish ISP, Tele2, demanding the cessation of customer access to Allofmp3.com". The decision is suppossed to be carried out all over the European Union "even though the Danish Ministry of Culture has declared the Russian site legal for Danish citizens to use". So far Sweeden refuse to take the same way.

A solar park capable of supply 23.2 megawatts will be constructed in Extremadura, one of the poorest regions of Spain. The park will become the biggest, with as the actual one is in Leipzig (Germany) and can supply up to 5 MW of energy. It will have an extension of 65 hectares and have more than 120,000 solar modules. Extremadura became world-known by adopting open source software.

The first Creationism museum will open next summer near Ohio-Kentucky's border line. The first museum in the world whose contents are completely fake, and as many of we think (and know) it's beliefs. One of it's biggest problems is gonna be how to explain dinosaurs and hominids, but of course they'll find an answer for that, if not in the bible, somewhere else.

Good news everyone: Sun announced yesterday that Java SE, Java ME and Glassfish are released under the GPLv2. So that confirms the rumor that it was to be GPL instead of CDDL.

At the spanish office of patents and brands has been registered the word "BLOG" with number of expedient #M 2715026. Right now the word is popular in spain since we usually don't translate it. The word has been registered in two classes web pages and events which means a wide area such as all related with internet, communications and all kind of events.

To find the registered name, go to the search page and write "blog" in the first input field, then press the button "Localizar" and the brand is one of the lastest.

The group Sogecable is the owner of one of the most important newspapers in Spain, El País, a TV channel, also takes part on the digital television (Digital+) and has a radio station.

Source: ojobuscador (spanish).