Tag: digitisation

  • Silicon Republic; an article regarding Radical Copyright Law Reform in Ireland.

    Silicon Republic article regarding ‘Radical Copyright Law Reform’  in Ireland. This morning (09/05/2011) Silicon Republic reported on a radical overhaul  of Ireland’s Copyright Law, this is interesting given that most discussions in this area have been limited in recent times to the three strikes and  you’re out nexus of anti-innovation. I am adding here the current…

  • The Electronic Frontier Foundation: ‘Digitial Books and Your Rights’.

    The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) have been lobbying and releasing for quite a period on the Google Book Settlement (GBS). I have carried their links on a number of sites regarding the oft-neglected issue of Consumer data privacy in relation to the GBS.Today, so, I am carrying a link to their latest information and to their site,…

  • The Google Book Settlement and the European Commission.

    I refer in short to the Google Book Settlement as the GBS throughout this series of posts, the links for which I will include at the base of this short piece. Yesterday there was a meeting of the European Commission (07/09/09) re the GBS which yielded what Irish Media refer to as concessions to European authors and publishing…