EUROPEAN COURT OF JUSTICE ADVOCATE GENERAL OPINION: COMPUTER PROGRAM FUNCTIONALITY AND PROGRAMMING LANGUAGES CANNOT BE PROTECTED BY COPYRIGHT Seminar on 1 December at 16 00 at the Solvay Library in Brussels to discuss the case Court of Justice Advocate General…
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UN Special Rapporteur calls for binding Treaty for Blind
United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Freedom of Opinion and Expression November, 2011 WIPO SCCR 23: Declaration from the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression, Frank La…
Will the EU and USA join the rest of the world and finally agree a binding book treaty for blind people this November?
16.11.2011 Visitors to this site will know that the World Blind Union has campaigned for some years now at the World Intellectual Property Organisation, WIPO, for the removal of copyright barriers which prevent blind, partially sighted, dyslexic and other “reading…
Better read than dead
Broad access to our cultural legacy or “better dead than read”: A new EU Directive that is now being discussed in the European Parliament will decide whether to rescue millions of forgotten “orphan works” It´s hard to imagine…
Horizon 2020: investing in the common good
“Horizon 2020: Investing in the common good” Treating knowledge as a public good in EU research and innovation About: Horizon 2020 is the EU´s framework programme for research and innovation. This conference will explore how EU funding can promote economically…
WHAT MAKES ACTA SO CONTROVERSIAL (and why MEPs should care)
What Makes ACTA So Controversial (and why MEPs should care) What Makes ACTA So Controversial (and why MEPs should care) What is ACTA? The Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is a multilateral agreement which proposes international standards for en- forcement of…
European Court rules against territorial exclusivity of TV broadcasting
Court of Justice of the European Union PRESS RELEASE No 102/11 Luxembourg, 4 October 2011 Judgment in Cases C-403/08 and C-429/08 Football Association Premier League and Others v QC Leisure and Others Karen Murphy v Media Protection Services Ltd A…
Official European Parliament press release on Treaty for Visually Impaired
Press Release – 03.10.2011 Ensuring blind people’s access to information Visually impaired people should have full access to books and other printed products, said the Petitions Committee on Monday. Following a complaint by the World Blind Union, the…
Blind persons petition European Parliament in support of Treaty
EUROPEAN BLIND UNION and TACD invite you to attend (or to follow on web stream) The European Blind Union in the Petition Committee of The European Parliament to DEFEND BLIND PEOPLE’S RIGHT TO READ Time: Monday 3rd of October 15-18.30…
Public risk taking in innovation (from “The entrepreneurial state” by Mariana Mazzucato)
I have found these piece quite relevant whle we consider the future of the EU´s research and innovation framework programme “Horizon 2020”. When thinking about the role of public research in innovation economist Mariana Mazzacuco explains the “socialized generation and…