NYer: "Spain Versus the Internet"
December 13, 2014 *Spain Versus the Internet** * By Vauhini Vara In separate lawsuits launched in the mid-aughts, a group of newspapers in Belgium and the Agence France-Presse news agency in France sued Google for displaying snippets of text from their articles in Google News results. They argued that the snippets violated their copyright. In the years that followed, as Google News expanded its influence around the globe, both the A.F.P. and the Belgian newspapers reached agreements with Google to display the text, after all—in 2007 and 2012, respectively. The financial details of the deals weren’t disclosed, but all of the parties professed to be pleased at the outcome, and the fight faded from headlines, especially in the U.S. […] Continua qui: http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/spain-versus-internet
A proposito di Spagna e di libertà di espressione online merita altresì attenzione la proposta di legge appena approvata dalla camera bassa, che limita sia il diritto di manifestare che quello di riprendere e divulgare immagini relative alla manifestazioni di piazza. http://www.huffingtonpost.es/2014/12/11/ley-mordaza-multas_n_6308020.html http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/dec/11/spain-law-expel-north-african-m... AM -- Alessandro Mantelero Director of Privacy and Faculty Fellow, Nexa Center for Internet and Society http://staff.polito.it/alessandro.mantelero On Mon, 15 Dec 2014 08:37:12 +0100 "J.C. DE MARTIN" <demartin@polito.it> wrote:
December 13, 2014
*Spain Versus the Internet** * By Vauhini Vara
In separate lawsuits launched in the mid-aughts, a group of newspapers in Belgium and the Agence France-Presse news agency in France sued Google for displaying snippets of text from their articles in Google News results. They argued that the snippets violated their copyright. In the years that followed, as Google News expanded its influence around the globe, both the A.F.P. and the Belgian newspapers reached agreements with Google to display the text, after all—in 2007 and 2012, respectively. The financial details of the deals weren’t disclosed, but all of the parties professed to be pleased at the outcome, and the fight faded from headlines, especially in the U.S.
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Continua qui: http://www.newyorker.com/business/currency/spain-versus-internet
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