Quad'news
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03/02/12
Sharing: Culture and the Economy in the Internet Age - By Philippe Aigrain
Paris, February 3rd, 2012 – Sharing: Culture and the Economy in the Internet Age is out! Philippe Aigrain, co-founder of La Quadrature du Net, in collaboration with Suzanne Aigrain, describes the creative contribution, a financial model designed to sustain an expanding creative economy in a context where sharing is recognized as a right.
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01/02/12
ACTA: Commissioner De Gucht Lies to the EU Parliament
Paris, February 1st 2012 – The EU Commission “Trade” Directorate-General is lobbying the EU Parliament, presenting a one-sided and plainly distorted view of ACTA to face the growing citizen opposition. The EU's executive branch, which negotiated ACTA behind citizens' backs, is now shamelessly relaying the copyright industries' lobbying pitch, in yet another sign of its collusion with business interests.
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30/01/12
Debunking the EU Commission's Lies About ACTA
Paris, January 30th, 2012 – The EU Commission is engaging in an all-out offensive to portray ACTA as normal trade agreement harmless to fundamental rights or access to knowledge. In several published documents, the Commission's attempts to impose ACTA onto the EU Parliament while silencing legitimate criticism. But these misrepresentations don't resist scrutiny.
- 26/01/12
ACTA Signed by the EU. Let's Defeat it Together!
- 24/01/12
ACTA: Letter to the EU Parliament Development Committee
- 23/01/12
After SOPA/PIPA in the US, ACTA Makes Its Way to the EU Parliament
- 20/01/12
More than Half of the EU with Restrictions to Net access. What will Neelie Kroes Do?
- 20/01/12
MegaUpload: Copyright Industry At War Against Monsters of its Own Making
Press review
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31/01/12
[TechDirt] Slovenian Ambassador Apologizes For Signing ACTA
[...] The Slovenian ambassador to Japan, Helena Drnovsek Zorko has apparently issued a public apology for signing ACTA last week.[...]
[...] now that she understands ACTA, she doesn't like it, and she appears to hope that people will protest ACTA and stop it from getting implemented.[...]
http://www.techdirt.com/articles/20120201/10170517623/slovenian-ambassad...
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31/01/12
[TheNews.pl] Poland 'may not ratify ACTA'
Poland's culture minister has repeated that though the government has signed the ACTA agreement it may not be approved by the Polish parliament. [...]
Speaking on Polish Radio on Tuesday, Minister Bogdan Zdrojewski said that “it's quite simply very difficult to predict which act and which regulation will spark emotions,” referring to the strong protest that the government's signing of the agreement last week in Tokyo has sparked in the country. [...]
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30/01/12
[ComputerActive] French advocacy group urges EU citizens to fight against ACTA
The French advocacy group La Quadrature du Net today accused the European Commission of "plainly lying" to the European Parliament about the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA).
- 30/01/12
[Wired] European Commission defends Acta, says it's nothing like Sopa
- 30/01/12
[TechDirt] The SOPA/PIPA Protests Were Not Pro-Piracy... They Were Anti-Crony Capitalism
- 29/01/12
[PressTv] ACTA = Global Internet Censorship - Now even foreign governments will be able to have your website shut down
- 29/01/12
[Elpais.Co] Asi es la disputa de dos poderosos bandos por una Sopa que indigesta a internet
- 28/01/12
[ArsTechnica] Opponents protest signing of ACTA without adequate debate
La Quadrature du Net defends
- Human Rights in the digital society
- Access to a free and open Internet
- Sharing of culture and Knowledge
La Quadrature du Net is an advocacy group defending the rights and freedoms of citizens on the Internet.
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Sharing: Culture and the Economy in the Internet Age
Philippe Aigrain, co-founder of La Quadrature du Net, in collaboration with Suzanne Aigrain, describes in his new book Sharing the creative contribution, a financial model designed to sustain an expanding creative economy in a context where sharing is recognized as a right.
Sharing is available
- as a paper book, available globally,
- as a commercial eBook in Epub format,
- in an open access electronic version,
- and a dedicated “live book“ website at http://www.sharing-thebook.com where you can comment on the book chapters, download source code and datasets, and interactively run models with parameters of your choice.
