Karl Jonsson’s Weblog

Finnish Demonstration Against New Copyright Law

Next Tuesday at 13:00 there will be a major demonstration outside the Parliament house against the new copyright law. The demonstation is supported by all party youth chapters and EFFI. - CopyFraud

More Rights for Broadcasters?

James Boyle writes about proposed expansions of the intellectual property rights in broadcasts.

In the funhouse world that is intellectual property policy, WIPO is considering a proposal to expand the length of the [broadcast] right by 30 years and a US-backed initiative to apply it to webcasts as well.

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LimeWire to Integrate CC Licensing?

It seems like the Grokster decision and recent demands from the RIAA will make the LimeWire Gnutella client check for Creative Commons licenses before allowing a file to be shared.

• Slyck News: LimeWire Works to Block Unlicensed Material
• Säkerhet&Sekretess: Limewire blockerar piratkopior? (in Swedish)

New Look

I have finally replaced the default theme that came with Wordpress 1.5. I found another one I like even better than this one but it requires more tweaking before I am happy with it. I may switch again later. Then again I might just not bother to . . .

Samtalslistor ska lämnas till Skatteverket

Regeringsrätten har fastslagit (mål nr 1233-04, dom 2005-09-19) att Vodafone måste lämna ut samtalslistor från de anställdas tjänstemobiltelefoner till Skatteverket.

Länsrätten hade tidigare gått på Vodafones linje och undantagit handlingarna från revisionen på grund av skyddsintresset för de anställda. Kammarrätten och Regeringsrätten ansåg dock att detta inte innebar något beaktansvärt integritetsingrepp och ändrade domen.

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Are “Non-Commercial” Licenses Harmful?

Creative Commons -NC Licenses Considered Harmful || kuro5hin.org

One particular licensing option, however, is a growing problem for the free content community. It is the allow non-commercial use only (-NC) option. The “non-commercial use only” variants of the Creative Commons licenses are non-free, and in some ways worse than traditional copyright law — because it can be harder to move away from them once people have made the choice.

I do not have time to read this right now but it seems interesting. I have always been a bit wary of the non-commercial restriction myself.

Gnuheter läggs ner

Gnuheter går i graven.