[ga] Burning bridges? - German Publishers Want Monopoly On Sentences

["Jeffrey A. Williams" <jwkckid1@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

All,

  Seems that the IP lobbies in some jurisdictions want
to have fare more control over speech.  If such, < see
below > happens/comes into German law, perhaps .DE domain
name holders will be reviewing their content, especially
news services/journalistic web sites.  

See:
You think copyright can't get any more draconian?
Think again. In Germany, 
http://www.ipjur.com/blog2/index.php?/archives/163-Intellectual-Property-Political-Excesses-Or-Let-Schumpeters-Creative-Destruction-Do-Its-Work.html
newspaper publishers are lobbying for 'a new exclusive right 
conferring the power to monopolize speech e.g. by 
http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2010/06/german-publishers-want-more-monopoly.html
assigning a right to re-use a particular wording in the headline of a
news article anywhere else without the permission of the rights holder.
According to the drafts circulating on the Internet, permission shall be
obtainable exclusively by closing an agreement with a new collecting
society which will be founded after the drafts have matured into law.
Depending on the particulars, new levies might come up for each and every
user of a PC, at least if the computer is used in a company for
commercial purposes.' Think that will never work because someone will
always break the news cartel? Don't worry, they've got that covered too.
They want to 'amend cartel law in order to enable a global "pooling" of
all exclusive rights of all newspaper publishers in Germany in order to
block any attempt to defect from the paywall cartel by a single
competitor.' And rest assured, if anything like this passes in Germany,
publishers everywhere will be using the 
http://opendotdotdot.blogspot.com/2009/11/copyright-ratchet-racket-explained.html
copyright ratchet to obtain 'parity.

Regards,

Jeffrey A. Williams
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