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EU allowing libraries to digitise books without permission | What’s New in Publishing
“The right of libraries to communicate, by dedicated terminals, the works they hold in their collections would risk being rendered largely meaningless, or indeed ineffective, if they did not have an ancillary right to digitise the works in question.” via EU allowing libraries to digitise books without permission | What’s New in Publishing.
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40 Maps That Explain The Middle East
“Here are 40 maps crucial for understanding the Middle East — its history, its present, and some of the most important stories in the region today.” via 40 Maps That Explain The Middle East.
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Meet the Italian Who Beat Google to Web Search — and Gave It Away – Bloomberg
“After the speech, Marchiori returned home in the hopes of realizing his ambitious design. “When I came back to Italy, I asked the university for 20,000 euros to develop a search engine, but instead, they financed a project about the history of copper metallurgy in Italy,” he says. Meanwhile, Page got his first $100,000 check […]
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Fare Dodging Is an Organized Rebellion in Stockholm, and It’s Winning – NYTimes.com
“For over a decade, Mr. Tengblad has belonged to a group known as Planka.nu rough translation: “free-ride.now”, an organization with only two prerequisites for admission: Members must pay a monthly fee of about $15 and, as part of a continuous demonstration against the fare, promise to evade payment every time they ride. If travelers keep […]
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Irish High Court Judgement on Pirate Bay Blocking « kNOw Future Inc.
” In June the Irish High court granted an application by four music companies to order six ISPs to block access to the Pirate Bay web site within thirty days. The decision was widely reported in the press at the time but the written judgement wasn’t published until July. It is notable that the country’s […]
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Will there be an Amazon of Europe? ??? Cloud Computing News
via gigaom.com “First, Amazon was an Internet-only company that was able to exploit its scale in a one market (e-commerce) to another (public cloud infrastructure). Second, the US has a large developer and early adopter market that flocked to Amaz…