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  European Pirate Platform[->] 2008-07-04 15:28 Wildclaw

Submitted by Wildclaw on Friday July 04, @03:28PM
Wildclaw writes "This weekend representatives from several European pirate parties met in Uppsala to discuss a unified platform for the 2009 EU parliament election. The platform includes solid suggestions to copyright reform, including making copyright only regulate commercial activity, limiting the length of copyright to within one generation, forbidding DRM and making it easier to create derivative works. Patents and civil rights are also very important parts of the pirate party platform, and especially the strong stance on privacy will likely draw voters."
http://www.piratpartiet.se/nyheter/european_pirate_platform_2009
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 [+] submission, politics, announcement

  False DMCA Claims by Creationists Stifle Critics 2007-09-13 05:06 Bueller_007

Submitted by Bueller_007 on Thursday September 13 2007, @05:06AM
Bueller_007 writes "Creation Science Evangelism, an creationist organization owned by convicted felon Kent Hovind has been filing false DMCA claims to stifle their rivals on YouTube. Although CSE's videos are not copyrighted (according to their official website and the videos themselves), within the past 72 hours, they have had approximately 20 videos removed at their request, and at least two popular users have had their accounts disabled.

All of the videos that have been removed were critical remixes of Hovind's original videos, interspersed with rebuttals and likely to have fallen under fair use. Exact duplicates of Hovind's videos — seen as supportive — were not removed. Further, CSE has also filed false DMCA claims to have others' completely original content removed, as well as public-domain phone calls Hovind made from prison."
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 [+] submission, censorship, interesting, slownewsday

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