(a) optimal protection decreases as the cost of production falls (and vice-versa); and (b) the level optimal protection, in general, declines over time.

... optimal level of copyright. Thus, in the final section we provide an estimate of optimal term – probably the most important aspect of the level of copyright. Our estimate of optimal term (14 years) is far below the length copyright in almost all jurisdictions. | rufus pollack

two countries to watch in regard to new digital legislations. the french introduced in their copyright law (dadvsi¹) a fee also for possessing a tool to circumvent drm technology.

april launched an action against it | french-law

canadian also have fun with their conservative government, which just introduced a so called clean internet act.

The Clean Internet Act goes further than the current legislation on Internet usage by requiring Internet service providers to co-operate in minimizing the use of the Internet for the purposes of violence and racial hatred toward women and child pornography | slyck news

drm is on their agenda, too and they are looking to france ...

¹according to industry drm and tpm is not the same. | ibm whitepaper. its said that drm protects the media while tpm protects the drm | openmalaysia.

reminds me of some gema/litera mechana/cisac jokes from the 90s.

... The irony is that these search engines exist, largely, because of the traditional news and content aggregators and profit at their expense, said Gavin O’Reilly, the WAN President, ...(world association of newspapers

via theRegister, but i have no idea why they file it under "/newspaper go for google" as it has nothing to do with the afp trial. pavlovscher reflex? 'com on, you had enough fun today with other g_news.