The Washington Post argues in an editorial that president Obama should not pardon NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden.
This is rather odd.
The newspaper is turning against one of its own sources, as the WP was more than happy to be one of the media partners publishing Snowden’s material. This even landed them a Pulitzer prize.
Washington Post: No pardon for Edward Snowden »
The Intercept: WashPost Makes History: First Paper to Call for Prosecution of Its Own Source (After Accepting Pulitzer) »
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On EU copyright “reform”, free city WiFi and Mozilla’s web developer conference in Berlin. Now in English.
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It’s hard to understand why the European Commission thinks that an EU-wide snippet tax will work when it has failed spectacularly not once, but twice.
Glyn Moody in Ars Technica: EU copyright plans a big win for old media, but public concerns ignored »
Members from left to right in the European Parliament fighting the European Commissions proposal to tax and to extend copyright rules on Internet linking.
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Worst of all, the draft directive contains a broad neighbouring/ancillary right for publishers of news (Art. 11). It shall be granted for the online use of “news publications” and have a duration of 20(!) years. What exactly is protected, who the rightsholders shall be or – most importantly – the addressed users is not defined. All the safeguards that were tried in Germany and Spain to keep the danger of such a right for the Internet at bay are neglected: The right is not restricted to the making available right but includes also the reproduction right. It is not restricted to certain users like aggregators or search engines, there is no snippet exception like in Germany and it is a full exclusive right not only a levy like in Spain.
IGEL: It could not be worse: Draft proposal for the copyright directive leaked »
