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on Saturday July 22 2017, @11:46PM
from the affects-open-access-journals,-too dept.
from the affects-open-access-journals,-too dept.
A new Copyright Directive is being drafted for Europe. Within that process the Committee on Culture and Education (CULT) has agreed to an amendment that would greatly reduce citizens' rights in regards to online material and even digital material in general. The "snippet tax" aka "link tax" would require licenses for even the tiniest quotations of published material as well as mandating upload filters. Either of these would effectively ban sites like SoylentNews from Europe, but scholarly publishing would suffer as badly.
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EU Parliament Committee: No, You Can't Enjoy the Music You Paid For
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Everything you know is wrong!
(Score: 3, Interesting) by bzipitidoo on Sunday July 23 2017, @05:29AM
Cheating often does work-- in the short term. Not so much in the long term. For instance, did the auto manufacturers really think they could cheat emissions tests for the decades it could take for diesel engines to be rendered obsolete? That's a long time to run a con that could be spotted the moment anyone anywhere takes a hard look.
More like, the managers involved didn't care, had shorter terms to think about than their employer. As long as they could retire and grab their golden parachutes before the cheating was uncovered, they were, well, golden.