been reading through a number of the published responses to the a recent EU study on a community initiative on the cross-border collective management copyright for the on-line distribution of musical works. this is part of a collaborative effort by a number people associated with Creative Commons who are looking into the compatibility between CC […]
on saturdays there is a small and – due to the lack of clientele – pathetic food market on the street right in front of our place in berlin. when it started about a year ago it still had many more stalls then nowadays and one of them was offering a ‘juppy menu’ (referring i […]
the MPA (Music Publishers Association) and the IFPI (International Federation of Phonogram and Videogram Producers) have released a software called digital file check that can be used by usres to remove file sharing apps from computers. it also contains a function to check ‘what files are in your “shared folders” – these files are likly […]
i was back in bruxelles yesterday after a way to lo long time. this city is definitely my favorite city in europe as it manages to surprise me every time i am there, even if it is only for one rainy evening spent in an restaurant waiting for the night train to berlin (of course […]
good news coming from the mysterious world of online banking. according to my bank (rabobank in the netherlands) it is again safe enough to transfer money to Afghanistan. dont really know what they were worrying about before? me giving osama a little bit of pocket money? or them war lords hijacking my transactions? in any […]
been following the coverage about the aftermath of hurricane katrina for the last couple of days and the whole thing has brought a lot of issues to the surface. (boing boing has been an incredibly valuable source of information, jamie has written a nice summary mid last week and i also have rediscovered tomdispatch (they […]
there are federal elections on the 18th in germany. one of the parties contesting (and having a good chance of actually entering parliament) is the newly founded ‘Die Linke.PDS‘. this party is a merger of the PDS (which is the sucessor party to the former east German ruling party SED and the WASG which is […]