[governance] IP Watch / German Parliament Votes To Protect News Snippets From Republishing

[riaz.tayob at gmail.com]

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... 

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On 23 Mar 2013, at 12:26 PM, Jamie Love <james.love at keionline.org> wrote:

> This law is contrary the the following articles in the Berne Convention
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> 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.
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> 3.  10. (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.
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> Someone might have a GATT case against Germany, since a law that is too restrictive to trade can be challenged.  
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> On Fri, Mar 22, 2013 at 2:49 PM, Riaz K Tayob <riaz.tayob at gmail.com> wrote:
>> If they were Chinese?
>> German Parliament Votes To Protect News Snippets From Republishing
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>> Published on 22 March 2013 @ 4:21 pm
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>> Intellectual Property Watch
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>> By Monika Ermert for Intellectual Property Watch
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>> 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”).
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>> 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”.
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>> 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”.
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>> Statements in German follow:
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>> Bundesrat statement is here.
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>> Green Party press release is here.
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>> Social Democrats’ press release is here.
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