Copyrighted material offered illegally to students
Designed to help students prepare for exams, the StuDocu platform offers course notes, exam questions and material created by teaching personnel. In addition to the fact that the content may be protected by the Copyright Act, Universit茅 Laval is concerned about the quality of the documents shared.
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Google and news publishers negotiating
After being criticized widely by the media, Internet giant Google is finally negotiating licensing agreements to compensate news publishers for displaying links to their websites via Google News. However, Google is still refusing to pay for the article headlines and snippets appearing in search results.
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Thousands of jobs lost to book piracy in Italy
About 8,800 jobs, including 3,600 in publishing houses alone, have been lost in Italy because of illegal downloading and unreported content reproduction, representing losses of nearly 鈧528 million. A fitting reminder about the important economic role played by the arts and culture sector.
Read the article from Publishing Perspectives.