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Peter Troxler — Wed, 03 Sep 2008 09:51:54 +0000

Copyright Experts Reject Term Extension

Dr. Peter Troxler — Sun, 31 Aug 2008 10:17:31 +0000

The recent 'forward-looking' Intellectual Property Package of the EU has at its core the term extension of copyright. Earlier, the respective policy unit commissioned a study into this very question, which deals with the topic of term extension in detail and, on the basis of a thorough
legal and economic analysis, rejects the main arguments made in favour of an extension (1). However, the EU has chosen not to mention this study in the Explanatory Memorandum. Quite rightly, the copyright experts who carried out the study, remind the EU in an Open Letter, that 'the Commission's obscuration of the IViR studies and its failure to confront the critical arguments made therein seem to reveal an intention to mislead the Council and the Parliament, as well as the citizens of the European Union.'

(1) Study carried out by the Institute for Information Law for the European Commission (DG Internal Market). Chapters 1 and 2 describe and examine the existing 'acquis communautaire' in the field of copyright and related (neighbouring) rights, with special focus on inconsistencies and unclarities. Chapters 3-6 deal with distinct issues that were identified a priori by the European Commission as meriting special attention: possible extension of the term of protection of phonograms (Chapter 3), possible alignment of the term of protection of co-written musical works (Chapter 4), the problems connected to multiple copyright ownership, including the issue of 'orphan works' (Chapter 5), and copyright awareness among consumers (Chapter 6). Chapter 7 provides an overall assessment of the benefits and drawbacks of the fifteen years of harmonisation of copyright and related rights in the EU and dwells on regulatory alternatives: The Recasting of Copyright & Related Rights for the Knowledge Economy

Texts don’t grow on trees — but you might still want to give away these apples for free

Dr. Peter Troxler — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:55:58 +0000

How on earth could one possibly give content away for free and still earn money?

Frances Pinter is a publisher who worked in Africa making educational material available under alternative licenses. Together with David Percy, a professional film maker, he produced a documentary on the use of Creative Commons licenses to actually earn money.

The movie is available here to view online — for free of course and under a CC license:

Texts don’t grow on trees — but you might still want to give away these apples for free

Dr. Peter Troxler — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:55:58 +0000

How on earth could one possibly give content away for free and still earn money?

The movie is available here to view online — for free of course and under a CC license:

Pay the Writer

Dr. Peter Troxler — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:48:18 +0000

Pay the Writer

Dr. Peter Troxler — Wed, 30 Jul 2008 10:48:18 +0000

NS und … die zweite

Peter Troxler — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 19:20:07 +0000

Der freundliche Kundendienst von NS (nein, nicht DAP…) sagt mir heute (auf Nachfrage wegen Geografie), sie wüssten es halt auch nicht, ich soll mich doch an NS Highspeed wenden, die seien fürs Ausland zuständig …

NS und Geografie

Peter Troxler — Sat, 19 Jul 2008 20:05:22 +0000

Emmerich ist ein mittlerweile unbedeutender Grenzort an der Bahnlinie von Rotterdam nach Köln. Versuchen wir also mal, dahin zu fahren, zum Beispiel mit der NS (nein, nicht DAP: Nederlandse Spoorwegen, die holländische Bahn). http://www.ns.nl/ ist die Adresse, Abfahrtsort ist Rotterdam Centraal, Ankunftsort Emmerich, gewünschte Abfahrtszeit: 7:45 h.

Und das ist die Reise, die NS anbietet:

Ich habe Fragen

trox (Rotterdam) — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:38:00 +0000

Niederländischer Humor

trox (Rotterdam) — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:59:00 +0000

Niederländischer Humor

trox (Rotterdam) — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 22:59:00 +0000

you know a nerd …

Peter Troxler — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 20:04:48 +0000

… when you see one — omdat hij een externe beeldscherm gebruikt voor zijn mobiele telefoon, bijvoorbeeld

en de foto vervolgens nog op de blog plaatst

Microsoft Live Book Search closed

Dr. Peter Troxler — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 08:39:06 +0000

Hidden away in the official Live Search blog Microsoft announced last week that they are going to shut down Live Book Search as of today. The reasons are simple: there is no money to be made for Microsoft by digitizing content. It is now up to the partners in the project — publishers and libraries — to continue the work.

The post attracts of course the usual Microsoft bashing comments. More importantly, many of the mostly academic users of Microsoft's service are disappointed and will have to look elsewhere to get acces to the millions of journal articles that MS scanned and hosted.

This is the end to a project that was hailed by some as the good digitizing project, just because MS did choose an opt-in model rather than the opt-out model its competitor Google is using. From MS's post its not clear what role this part of the project played in closing it down. However, MS is convinced that it should be the publishers and libraries who should make content available. Adding (and paying) an extra intermediary obviously adds no extra value.

Commenting closed for non-registered users

Dr. Peter Troxler — Fri, 23 May 2008 07:17:35 +0000

Due to a heavy influx of comment spam site management took the decision to close commenting to any non-registered users. Apologies for any inconveniences this might cause.

Gestern gingen die gemittelten Niederländer…

trox (Rotterdam) — Wed, 26 Mar 2008 00:02:00 +0000