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A Nazi Romance Movie Versus Memes: When Copyright Shuts Down Criticism We’re taking part in Copyright Week , a series of actions and discussions supporting key principles that should guide copyright policy. Every day this week, various groups are taking on different elements of copyright law and policy, and addressing what’s at stake, and what we need to do to make sure that copyright promotes creativity and innovation. In theory, here is how copyright and speech are supposed to interact: copyright grants certain exclusive rights—including the right to make and sell copies of a work—for a limited period of time. The idea is that this will incentivize creativity and innovation by providing people a way to make money selling their creations. However, exclusive ability to make use of words, images, etc. naturally runs against free speech rights. So, in order to mediate this conflict, we have the right to make use of copyrighted material without permission and payment under certain ...

It’s Copyright Week 2019: Join Us in the Fight for Better Copyright Law and Policy We’re taking part in Copyright Week , a series of actions and discussions supporting key principles that should guide copyright policy. Every day this week, various groups are taking on different elements of copyright law and policy, and addressing what’s at stake, and what we need to do to make sure that copyright promotes creativity and innovation. Copyright affects so much about our daily lives, often in ways people don’t even realize. It obviously impacts the movies we watch, the books we read, and the music we listen to. But it also impacts everything from who can fix a tractor to what information is available to us to when we communicate online. That means that copyright law and policy should be made to serve everyone. Unfortunately, that’s not the way it tends to work. Instead, copyright law is often treated as the exclusive domain of major media and entertainment industries. They’ve been...

The Internet is Facing a Catastrophe For Free Expression and Competition: Sweden, Germany, Poland and Luxembourg Could Tip The Balance Sweden: Take Action Here. Germany: Take Action Here. Luxembourg: Take Action Here. Poland: Take Action Here. The new EU Copyright Directive is progressing at an alarming rate. This week, the EU is asking its member-states to approve new negotiating positions for the final language. Once they get it, they’re planning to hold a final vote before pushing this drastic, radical new law into 28 countries and 500,000,000 people. While the majority of the rules in the new Directive are inoffensive updates to European copyright law, two parts of the Directive represent pose a dire threat to the global Internet: Article 11: A proposal to make platforms pay for linking to news sites by creating a non-waivable right to license any links from for-profit services (where those links include more than a word or two from the story or its headline). Article 11...

The Schneider Electric meter is well-known for its predominant usage and dependability over decades. It is gaining applause for its super-efficiency and is becoming the customers’ first choice. Duke Energy®, serving 25 million people and businesses (2016), knows first-hand the customer success story of microgrids and Schneider Electric power meters and software. Microgrids  are trending nowadays and don’t you want to know what helps make this new celebrity of the electric industry work? Intelligent power and energy meters, interconnected with the microgrid control network, play a key role in microgrid functionality. Schneider Electric  PowerLogic ION8650  series meters provide the monitoring data that’s crucial for operating microgrids. Just how does Duke Energy know for certain the flexibility and backup security of these meters? And why is Fire Station 34 in Charlotte, NC, grateful? When the South’s Queen City, as Charlotte is known, endures the grid-threatenin...

Today’s business model for electric utilities  are shifting from the traditional role to a more advanced one. Electricity suppliers are being challenged with stagnating or declining electricity sales in some regions. Increasingly popular distributed energy resources (DER), including on-site solar photovoltaic (PV) panels and energy-storage devices also are having a revenue impact. European utility executives polled by the market-research firm  IDC Energy Insights think new business and services supporting their commodity-electricity business will account for about 40% of utilities’ revenues by 2020. To meet changes, many distribution system operators (DSOs) are exploring new and innovative ADMS (Advanced Distribution Management Systems). They wish for creating stronger customer relationships and modernize the power distribution system operations to open new revenue streams for growing their businesses beyond energy sales. With the help of efficient DMS (Distribution Manage...