Belgian newspapers win copyright case against Google
(see following link for full article)
http://www.dw-world.de/dw/article/0,2144,2347645,00.html
Court ruled in favor of Belgian Newspapers, regarding violation of copyright laws.
Google published links to these newspapers without their permission or payment. The court ordered the Google company to pay daily fines for these links, until they were removed. The Belgian Court said that Google has broken the Belgian Copyright law.
The Internet group, and specifically Google News, was advised to request permission to show the articles or extracts, which included pictures and graphics from the Copiepresse (Belgium’s French language newspapers group).
What do you think of this? Please post your comments for discussion
Wednesday, February 21, 2007
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Hello Fellow Blouggers
I hope it’s just summer holidays followed by pressure of work, but really!!! Only three comments received on the first item posted can hardly be called a resounding success, especially as one of those comments was my response to Mary Bruce. Do you even KNOW that the Bloug has been launched?????? Well, anyway, thanks to Mary, and also to Anonymous, who obviously had a great time at OUGSA 2005!
We’re supposed to be the leaders in this field so PULEESE send through your comments, suggestions – in fact ANYTHING at this stage would be welcome.
Here’s my two cents worth – again. Mary Dee Ojala sent through to us for comment an article that one of her contributors was writing for the January 2007 30th Anniversary Issue of Online. It’s by Suzanne Bjorner and it’s called “Where have all the OLUGs gone?”
You can read it for yourself if you subscribe, but the gist of it is that Online User Groups, first mentioned in Online in April 1977 used to meet regularly to work on common goals and to try to solve shared problems. By July 1981, although most of the listed groups were in the USA, Canada and Europe, SAOUG featured amongst the international groups. For those of you who perhaps weren’t born or toddling around in nappies then, SAOUG began 27 years ago in 1980.
Problems are different in nature, but few of the groups which thrived in the 1980’s have survived. As Bjorner notes, “The world that spawned OLUGs is gone. Online evangelism is no longer necessary – we succeeded in marketing online information retrieval to the masses. Our workplaces and professional organizations have integrated online into basic operations. Communication and training, through e-mail, blogs, online tutorials and all the other social networking devices of Web 2.0 are faster and easier than ‘picking up the telephone’ was in 1977. As the ‘online industry’ has dispersed in multitudinous vertical markets, consumer activism has lost its target and activism.”
However, she also writes that “Some groups outside the United States are faring better. The Southern African Online User Group remains active with a well-developed Web site. It holds three or four meetings a year, and although it discontinued its newsletter, it provides space for an electronic discussion list.” My comment was that it was perhaps that we still had fun together, a thought that was heartily endorsed by Marydee Ojala based on her visit in 2003.
Well, if the dismal response to the first Bloug is anything to go by, then we’re doomed to follow our colleagues in the USA and Europe. This Bloug is meant to become an interactive newsletter, so we can keep up with each other’s comings and goings nationally and virtually – we did indeed have fun, but it’s getting so that it’s become passive fun for you, and I really don’t want to be the only one up there singing “Let me entertain you” …
Chair – Glenda Myers
I hope it’s just summer holidays followed by pressure of work, but really!!! Only three comments received on the first item posted can hardly be called a resounding success, especially as one of those comments was my response to Mary Bruce. Do you even KNOW that the Bloug has been launched?????? Well, anyway, thanks to Mary, and also to Anonymous, who obviously had a great time at OUGSA 2005!
We’re supposed to be the leaders in this field so PULEESE send through your comments, suggestions – in fact ANYTHING at this stage would be welcome.
Here’s my two cents worth – again. Mary Dee Ojala sent through to us for comment an article that one of her contributors was writing for the January 2007 30th Anniversary Issue of Online. It’s by Suzanne Bjorner and it’s called “Where have all the OLUGs gone?”
You can read it for yourself if you subscribe, but the gist of it is that Online User Groups, first mentioned in Online in April 1977 used to meet regularly to work on common goals and to try to solve shared problems. By July 1981, although most of the listed groups were in the USA, Canada and Europe, SAOUG featured amongst the international groups. For those of you who perhaps weren’t born or toddling around in nappies then, SAOUG began 27 years ago in 1980.
Problems are different in nature, but few of the groups which thrived in the 1980’s have survived. As Bjorner notes, “The world that spawned OLUGs is gone. Online evangelism is no longer necessary – we succeeded in marketing online information retrieval to the masses. Our workplaces and professional organizations have integrated online into basic operations. Communication and training, through e-mail, blogs, online tutorials and all the other social networking devices of Web 2.0 are faster and easier than ‘picking up the telephone’ was in 1977. As the ‘online industry’ has dispersed in multitudinous vertical markets, consumer activism has lost its target and activism.”
However, she also writes that “Some groups outside the United States are faring better. The Southern African Online User Group remains active with a well-developed Web site. It holds three or four meetings a year, and although it discontinued its newsletter, it provides space for an electronic discussion list.” My comment was that it was perhaps that we still had fun together, a thought that was heartily endorsed by Marydee Ojala based on her visit in 2003.
Well, if the dismal response to the first Bloug is anything to go by, then we’re doomed to follow our colleagues in the USA and Europe. This Bloug is meant to become an interactive newsletter, so we can keep up with each other’s comings and goings nationally and virtually – we did indeed have fun, but it’s getting so that it’s become passive fun for you, and I really don’t want to be the only one up there singing “Let me entertain you” …
Chair – Glenda Myers
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