Pirated books on LinkedIn
You read that right: entire e-books are available on the SlideShare hosting service operated by LinkedIn. However, LinkedIn says that each copyright infringement case that they are notified about is handled quickly.
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Yale report finally released
The Time to Act report on Canada鈥檚 communications future, which was prepared for the federal government by a committee of experts, was released on January 29. It contains 97 recommendations, including a proposal that broadcasting and telecommunications regulations should be applied to all companies, even those based outside Canada.
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U.K. won鈥檛 be adopting European Copyright Directive
Member countries of the European Union have until 2021 to apply the new regulations under the directive issued in the spring of 2019. But because the United Kingdom left the EU on January 31 of this year, its government is not required to apply it and does not intend to do so.
Read the article from Les Echos.
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