<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>So much for international law and compliance by rich countries, even in the case of poor countries being precluded from protecting people living with HIV despite legal rights to do so....the us is even being obstreperous after Antigua won a case and decided to cross retaliate on intellectual property rights, international law and rules are poor protection against politics... <br><br>...,...</div><div><br>On 23 Mar 2013, at 12:26 PM, Jamie Love <<a href="mailto:james.love@keionline.org">james.love@keionline.org</a>> wrote:<br><br></div><blockquote type="cite"><div>This law is contrary the the following articles in the Berne Convention<div><br></div><div>------------------</div><div><span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Geneva,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">2. (8) The protection of this Convention shall not apply to news of the day or to miscellaneous facts having the character of mere items of press information.</span><br>
<br>3. 10. <span style="color:rgb(51,51,51);font-family:Arial,Geneva,Verdana,Helvetica,sans-serif;font-size:12px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255)">(1) It shall be permissible to make quotations from a work which has already been lawfully made available to the public, provided that their making is compatible with fair practice, and their extent does not exceed that justified by the purpose, including quotations from newspaper articles and periodicals in the form of press summaries.</span></div>
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</span></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 2:49 PM, Riaz K Tayob <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:riaz.tayob@gmail.com" target="_blank">riaz.tayob@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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If they were Chinese?<br>
<h2> German Parliament Votes To Protect News
Snippets From Republishing </h2>
<small>Published on 22 March 2013 @ 4:21 pm</small>
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<p>Intellectual Property Watch</p>
<p>By Monika Ermert for <em>Intellectual Property Watch</em></p>
<p>Munich – A controversial update to German copyright law providing
for an auxiliary protection for tiny extracts from press articles
has been finally passed by the German Upper House (“Bundesrat”). </p>
<p>What has been characterised and campaigned against as a “lex
Google” not only by Google, but also by Germany’s industry
associations, journalist associations and activists alike shall
prevent internet platforms from using publishers’ content without
licensing (and payment) except for “single words” or “minimal
extracts”. </p>
<p>The legislation originally targeting Google’s news services has
been heavily criticised by the opposition in German Parliament and
was passed against the votes of Social Democrats, Green Party and
the Left on 1 March. Yet the Social Democrats caved before the
vote today and accepted what they themselves had called a very bad
law. The Green Party, which had hoped the law could be delayed
until after the election, called it a “legislative botch”.</p>
<p>Statements in German follow: </p>
<p>Bundesrat statement is <a href="http://www.bundesrat.de/cln_320/nn_8538/DE/presse/pm/2013/080-2013.html?__nnn=true" target="_blank">here</a>. </p>
<p>Green Party press release is <a href="http://www.gruene-bundestag.de/presse/pressemitteilungen_ID_2000147/2013/maerz/leistungsschutzrecht-handwerklicher-pfusch-von-schwarz-gelb-passiert-ohne-not-den-bundesrat_ID_4387902_ID_4387902.html" target="_blank">here</a>. </p>
<p>Social Democrats’ press release is <a href="http://www.spd.de/presse/Pressemitteilungen/93838/20130321_peer_leistungsschutzrecht.html;jsessionid=0B0BF9FDBBD4E2E49A1927DA699CC3FC" target="_blank">here</a>. </p>
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