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Copyright issues remain a source of concern all over the world. Yet, an analysis of the use of copyright-related terminology highlights the differences between countries. In a recent article, I used the free online Google Trends tool which allows tailored analysis of Google Search patterns, both chronologically and geographically. I have since switched to the more powerful and versatile...

A proposed new law that restricts access and freedom on Brazilian Internet has passed in the Senate without public scrutiny and is now close to being enforced by the House of Representatives. The law project, created by Senator Eduardo Azeredo, restricts devices like open wi-fi networks, obliges Internet service providers to record and keep user information for three years and allows...

The International Olympic Committee (IOC) organizes the Summer and Winter Olympic Games. That also entails promoting the Olympic ideals of international co-operation and the like. Lately, these competitions have become gigantic in scale and expense. While there were only 241 participants (14 countries) in the first Olympics in Athens (1896), the Beijing Summer Olympics had 10,500...

Modern copyright law developed in India gradually, in what we may identify roughly as three distinct phases spanning more than 150 years (1). This article attempts to briefly navigate through the major changes brought in by each successive wave of copyright amendment which have cumulatively resulted in the way Indian Copyright law stands today.(2) <br />
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Digitisation of books if not whole libraries is all the rage nowadays, especially in the U.S. and Europe. There are several initiatives under way but a lot of questions are being posed regarding copyright, the selection process, how to deal with different editions of books, potential over-dependence on online sources and more...<br />
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Even though the 1830 Brazilian Criminal Code – enforced eight years after the country became independent from Portugal – foresaw the crime of copyright infringement , the first Brazilian law specifically aimed at authorial protection was the 1898 Law no. 496, also referred as Medeiros e Albuquerque Law, in honor of its author.<br />
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In its September 4, 2008 issue, the scientific journal Nature published a special section entitled Big Data. It is freely available online (in an enhanced version) for the time-being — no guarantees for the future though. It addresses the many facets of the digital data bonanza taking place in the sciences. Let me briefly review some of these interesting articles.<br />
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The free Google Trends tool offers many possibilities. Let's compare the related concepts that concern us all at iCommons. What do we see when facing off "open source," "copyright," "Creative Commons," "open access" and "copyleft"?

Serbia’s Republic Agency for Telecommunications (RATEL) brought a new Internet and communications monitoring law on Internet traffic interception and redirection. There is strong disapproval from the Serbian Internet community.<br />
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