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Comment Re:Will Canadian Pols Roll Over (Score 1) 224

by JebuZ on Tuesday August 11, 2009 @04:56PM (#29029755) Attached to: CRIA, MPAA Demand Expanded DMCA For Canada

The CBC has run several stories. For example, "Copyright rules must protect innovation, groups say" including several others linked therein.
They also ran an excellent summary of the wishes of major interested parties

Xbox Live Disallows Linux, Unix As Keywords 281

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday September 04, 2007 @07:26PM from the way-beyond-childish dept.

shafty023 writes "The Xbox Live online service disallows screen names like LINUXRULES, L I N U X, and other variations of these kinds. Other bloggers are reporting that variants of 'Unix' also result in the message: 'Your motto contains inappropriate language. Please try again.'" If this is an extension of Microsoft's anti-Linux campaign, perhaps it's time they gave it up.

Submission + - Copyright advocacy group violates copyright (scienceblogs.com)

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word munger

on Monday August 27, 2007 @02:46PM

word munger writes: "Commercial scholarly publishers are beginning to get afraid of the open access movement. They've hired a high-priced consultant to help them sway public opinion in favor of copyright restrictions on taxpayer-funded research. Funny thing is, their own website contains several copyright violations. It seems they pulled their images directly from the Getty Images website — watermark and all — without paying for their use! Clearly their agenda is simply to make using copyrighted materials inconvenient and expensive for everyone but THEMSELVES."

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