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• Major ACTA Leak: Internet and Civil Enforcement Chapters With Country Positions
  Some very serious stuff in here, including insight into the degree to which European Commission bureaucrats are selling out European citizens rights. It’s a big document and I expect the analysis over the next week to reveal some matters of the greatest concern.
  (tags: ACTA Leak Rights Freedom ThreeStrikes copyright internet law politics europe)
• UK Gov nationalises orphans and bans non-consensual photography in public
  More analysis of the UK’s Digital Economy Bill reveals even more badness. The Bill will effectively eliminate photographers copyrights to photographs without formal registration, and give anyone the right to block photography in public places in the UK. The fact this bill is characterised by the government as “no problem” is outrageous. Both measures can be made to sound citizen-friendly but actually open out enormous loopholes that will reduce citizen rights dramatically.
  (tags: DigitalEconomyBill UK Legislation Photography Rights Freedom Copyright)
• Is H.264 a legal minefield for video pros?
  Answer: yes, it is. That software you are using – like Final Cut Pro – does NOT include a license to distribute your end product and you need to separately pay fees to MPEG LA for anything you make with it. Very bad, very greedy.
  (tags: H.264 Patents Video Codec Licensing Greed MPEG MPEG-LA)

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