Showing posts with label norway. Show all posts
Showing posts with label norway. Show all posts
25 July 2014

Norway To Digitize All Norwegian Books, Allowing Domestic IP Addresses To Read All Of Them, Irrespective Of Copyright Status

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Here's a pretty amazing story from Norway :  On Techdirt .
26 October 2013

Two New Reports Confirm: Best Way To Reduce Piracy Dramatically Is To Offer Good Legal Alternatives

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At the beginning of last year we reported on a Swedish study that showed that streaming services had halved the number of people who wer...
10 February 2013

Another Reason to Use Open Source: Auditability

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The Norwegian Ministry of Finance seems to be taking a bit of stick at the moment. It wants all the existing cash registers in the count...
11 November 2012

Amazon Wipes Customer's Account, Locks All Ebooks, Says 'Find A New Retailer' When She Asks Why

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Techdirt has been warning people for several years that they don't really own the ebooks they have on their Amazon Kindles. The most...
29 July 2012

Norwegian Court Rules Blog Posts Are Not 'Made Public'

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It's something of a truism that the courts take time to catch up with technology, especially in the fast-moving world of the Internet,...
30 June 2012

Student Fined For Providing Free Film And TV Subtitles; Yet Another Business Opportunity Thrown Away By Copyright Industries

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Mike recently reminded us that for some people, bizarrely, stopping "piracy" is more important than making money. Here's an...
27 April 2012

Norwegian Security Service Wants Details Of Citizens' Web Comments Retained For Six Months

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Governments around the world are seeking to monitor more and more of their citizens' online activities -- and it's not just the mo...
25 January 2012

New Market Research: Music Streaming Services Halve Illegal Downloads

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For a long time, the copyright industries have taken the position that they won't launch new digital music services until piracy is ...
20 May 2009

Norwegian National Library Inches Forward

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Here's an interesting experiment that shows the way for all national libraries: Kopinor and the National Library of Norway signed a con...
02 October 2008

Norwegians Get the Blues

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A little while back I noted a provocative call from IBM for standards bodies to do better – a clear reference to the ISO's handling of O...
23 May 2008

ISO Appeal: South Africa Rises to the Challenge

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On Open Enterprise blog .
19 April 2008

Cold Facts About the Norwegian OOXML Scandal

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The meeting was a farce and the result was a scandal. But it’s not over yet, and one thing is clear: the “little one” is unfit to represent ...
09 April 2008

The Fat Norwegian Lady Sings

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Geir goes for it : We were robbed of victory in ISO by a mere 3 votes. Without the irregularities in Norway, that would have been just 2 vot...
20 December 2007

Norway's Beautiful Plumage...

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... openness : Regjeringa har vedteke at all informasjon på statlege nettsider skal vere tilgjengeleg i dei opne dokumentformata HTML, PDF e...