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Server

=> ↺ Docker shocker: It’s got a commercial product, and is ready to SELL IT

• Customers already pay Docker to host private image repositories on Docker Hub. But the subscriptions are cheap and the initial plans lacked features that enterprise customers demand, like granular access controls and the ability to integrate with their existing authentication systems.

=> ↺ Docker and CoreOS unite to start the Open Container Project and standardize runtime, image format

• Docker and CoreOS today are jointly announcing that they’re working with several major tech companies on a new Linux Foundation initiative called the Open Container Project. The idea is for everyone — users and vendors — to agree on a standard container runtime and image format and prevent unnecessary fragmentation.

=> ↺ Open Container Project Signals End to Container Wars

• The wrap up of DockerCon on Tuesday also marked the ushering in of a new era for the convention’s namesake company and the containerization ecosystem in general. One visible, real-world sign of the shift came when Docker founder and CTO Solomon Hykes and CoreOS CEO Alex Polvi met on stage to shake hands and announce the launch of the Open Container Project.

=> ↺ How the Open Container Project Agreement Affects You

• If you only read the press release — or worse, if you only read the business press produced by people who only read the press release — you’d have gotten the impression that the likes of Microsoft, Google, HP, Cisco, Red Hat, and Goldman Sachs had all rallied together under a flag of truce to declare the existence of a new standard for virtualization that the whole world would agree upon forever.

Kernel Space

=> ↺ Linux Kernel 4.1 Released

• Version 4.1 of the Linux kernel was released this week, and it includes a number of new features in the following areas.

=> ↺ Attempting To Try Out BCache On The Linux 4.1 Kernel

• A few days ago I set out to try out BCache on the Linux 4.1 kernel now that this caching feature has matured in the mainline Linux kernel for a while. BCache serves as a cache to the Linux kernel’s block layer whereby a solid-state drive (or other faster drive) can serve as a cache to a larger-capacity, traditional rotating hard drive.

=> ↺ NCQ TRIM Gets Some Improvements With Linux 4.2

• The libata updates for the Linux 4.2 kernel may be of interest this time around for solid-state drive owners thanks to some NCQ TRIM improvements.

=> ↺ LM-Sensors 3.4 Brings Hardware Detection & Fan Control Improvements

• Lead developer and SUSE employee Jean Delvare announced the LM-Sensors 3.4.0 update a short time ago for this Linux sensor monitoring project. For the LM-Sensors library and sensors command is now support for temperature min and critical min hysteresis. The fan control program of LM-Sensors has been updated with reduced memory consumption and other fixes. Lastly, the sensors-detect utility has detection support of new devices and avoids probing graphics cards by default.

Graphics Stack

=> ↺ Intel Adds Basic Broxton Support To Mesa

=> ↺ Pointing devices KCM: status update

• For X11 the library consists of 3 layers:

• QObject wrapper for XInput (XInputDevice, XInputDeviceManager)

• Adapters that map XInput objects to the common interface (XInputDeviceAdapter, XInputDeviceManagerAdapter)

• Interface classes (InputDevice, InputDeviceManager)

Applications

=> ↺ GStreamer 1.6 Open Source Multimedia Backend to Arrive in the Next Weeks with Many Features

• The GStreamer development team had the great pleasure of announcing the immediate availability for download and testing of the second milestone towards the highly anticipated GStreamer 1.6 open-source and cross-platform multimedia backend.

=> ↺ Ardour 4.1 Brings HiDPI Support, Input Gain Control, Save As & More

Instructionals/Technical

=> ↺ Install MySecureShell SFTP Server In Linux

=> ↺ Instalar VirtualBox 4.3.x en Fedora 21 y 22

=> ↺ Solution: Build DataStream from Red Hat CVE stream to automate vulnerability scan with Satellite 6.1

=> ↺ 4 Useful Tips on mkdir, tar and kill Commands in Linux

=> ↺ Load balancing HTTP/HTTPS with Pound on Ubuntu 15.04 Server

=> ↺ How to repair your Grub 2 on Ubuntu

=> ↺ Git quick tip

Wine or Emulation

=> ↺ Wine 1.7.46 Released

• The Wine development release 1.7.46 is now available.

• What’s new in this release:

• Improvements in the BITS file transfer service. Still more progress on DirectWrite implementation. Support for shared user data on 64-bit. Various C++ runtime improvements. Some more support for the 64-bit ARM platform. Various bug fixes.

=> ↺ Wine 1.7.46 Arrives with Fixes for Windows Steam Client

=> ↺ Wine 1.7.46: Still Hacking On DirectWrite & 64-bit ARM

=> ↺ The Wine Development Release 1.7.46 Is Now Available

=> ↺ Hey gamers! DirectX 11 is coming to Linux thanks to CodeWeavers and Wine

• The chains are loosening. DirectX still binds many PC games to Windows. Now, CodeWeavers expects CrossOver to support DirectX 11 by the end of the year, with Wine gaining compatibility shortly afterwards.

Games

=> ↺ Her Story Is an Exciting Interactive Story Game with Linux Support

• Her Story is a new game developed by Sam Barlow, the creator of Silent Hill: Shattered Memories and Aisle. A Steam for Linux version is also available for purchase.

=> ↺ Unreal Engine 4.8.1 Arrives for Linux, Windows, and OS X with Over 30 Bugfixes

• After three weeks from the release of Unreal Engine 4.8, Epic Games announced recently the immediate availability for download of the first maintenance release, Unreal Engine 4.8.1, which fixes over 30 bugs that were present in the previous version.

=> ↺ Crytek’s CryEngine 3.8.2 to support Linux, Oculus Rift

• Crytek’s powerful game engine, CryEngine, just got more powerful than ever.

=> ↺ SteamOS Update 161 Finally Brings the Liberation Font

• Valve has just published a new stable version of SteamOS, which brings a number of security updates and a new font for the main interface. It’s not a big update, but the addition of the new font should make it interesting.

=> ↺ Unigine 2.0 Release Candidate Arrives

• The release candidate to the Unigine 2.0 Engine is now available.

=> ↺ Last Chance to Get Ticket to Ride Board Game on Steam for Linux with 80% Price Cut

• Ticket to Ride, an adaptation of the well-known Days of Wonder board game, is now available on Steam for Linux with a massive 80% discount that will only last for a few more hours.

=> ↺ Spring RTS Engine 99.0 Brings Improved Performance

• The Spring 99.0 release features improved performance, custom menu support, support for recursively drawing exploded pieces, a new rotateable default camera, Lua improvements, internal weapon refactoring, and many other changes.

Desktop Environments/WMs

=> ↺ Enlightenment Starts Working On XWayland Support

• For those closely following the work on Enlightenment, there’s now work finally materializing in supporting XWayland.

K Desktop Environment/KDE SC/Qt

=> ↺ Please Welcome to Matthias Klumpp (ximion), our newest Kubuntu Member

GNOME Desktop/GTK

=> ↺ GNOME Notes Apps to Get Many New Features Soon

• The GNOME software stack is home to a lot of applications and Notes is just one of them. The developers are looking to make some serious improvements to it in order to make it more appealing and more useful.

Distributions

=> ↺ Linux Distribution Upgrade or Fresh Installation?

• When the time comes around for your distribution of choice to release a new iteration of its platform, you are faced with a seemingly simple choice—to upgrade or do a fresh installation. On one hand, you wind up having to do less work. On the other, the end result is a clean, fresh start.

New Releases

=> ↺ Makulu 9 Aero Soars Above the Linux Distro Crowd

• The special release of Makulu 9 Aero edition might seem like one flexible Linux offering too many. However, anyone hankering for a Windows-like operating system and the best of what is easy about using Linux could not make a better choice.

=> ↺ SparkyLinux 4.0

• I am happy to announce SparkyLinux 4.0 code name “Tyche”. Sparky 4 is based on and fully compatible with Debian 9 testing “Stretch”.

• The new iso images feature a set of applications for daily usage, wireless drivers, multimedia codecs and plugins, and they are available in a few flavors, such as : – LXDE – LXQt – KDE – MATE – Xfce

=> ↺ SparkyLinux 4.0 Officially Released, Based on Linux Kernel 4.0.5 and Debian 9 “Stretch”

• The SparkyLinux developers were more than happy to inform us a few minutes ago about the immediate availability for download of the final release of their Debian-based SparkyLinux 4.0 distribution.

Ballnux/SUSE

=> ↺ openSUSE Next Release Is So Phenomenal They Call It “42″

• openSUSE developers are preparing a new major release, but they are going to call it 42 and not 13.3 or something else. The changes are so profound that a completely new release was needed.

=> ↺ “OpenSUSE 42″ Enters Development

=> ↺ Work begins on totally new openSUSE release

• Deep thought and some additional core SUSE Linux Enterprise source code have given The openSUSE Project a path forward for future releases.

Red Hat Family

=> ↺ Technology doesn’t matter says Red Hat VP

• Does technology really matter? Craig Muzilla, Red Hat, Inc. senior vice president, Applications Platforms Business, kicked off his keynotes at Red Hat Summit 2015 asking attendees that very question.

=> ↺ Red Hat, Samsung Team Up; TXLF Names Keynoter, and More

• While there has been a lot of oooh-ing and ahhh-ing over what’s been coming out of the Red Hat Summit in Boston this week, probably the most intriguing news to come out of the proceedings is that Red Hat and Samsung Electronics America “announced a strategic alliance to deliver the next generation of mobile solutions for the enterprise,” according to Red Hat’s PR department.

=> ↺ Red Hat promises lustre for Gluster, and heft for Ceph

• Red Hat has ratcheted up its software defined storage portfolio, taking the wraps off Ceph Storage 1.3 and Gluster Storage 3.1 at its marquee customer event in Boston this week.

• The vendor played up the ability of both products to help customers manage storage at “petabyte scale”. Which one matters most to you depends, of course, on exactly what you’re looking to do with your infrastructure in general, and storage in particular.

=> ↺ With OpenShift 3, Red Hat puts container power in developers’ hands

• If Red Hat wasn’t a “container company” before, it’s one now — and in ways that matter to more than just admins dealing with Red Hat products.

• Among the announcements the company put out this week at its annual Red Hat Summit, the two biggest were about Red Hat as a container (and, by that token, application) platform. Both expand on existing work Red Hat has done with containers, and both are aimed at app developers, rather than just those tasked with keeping installations of Red Hat products fed and happy.

=> ↺ Red Hat Enterpise Linux for ARM reaches Closed Beta

• RED HAT is continuing its slew of announcements from its Boston Summit with the reveal of a preview edition of Red Hat Enterprise Linux for ARM processors (RHELA).

=> ↺ Red Hat Summit Highlights Docker, RHEL 7.2 Roadmap and More

=> ↺ OpenShift set to revolutionize PaaS platforms

=> ↺ Red Hat delivers OpenShift Enterprise 3 platform

=> ↺ Red Hat Summit – Can you say OpenStack and Containers?

=> ↺ Red Hat Goes All in with Container Initiatives, and a New Platform

=> ↺ Red Hat Amplifies its Partner Ecosystem with New Alliances for Red Hat Storage Portfolio

=> ↺ Pluribus Networks Partners With Super Micro Computer and Red Hat for Converged Infrastructure

=> ↺ Red Hat Customer Portal Recognized as One of the “Ten Best Web Support Sites”

=> ↺ Red Hat Announces Dates for Red Hat Summit 2016 in San Francisco

=> ↺ Dell, IBM Open (Source) Up at Red Hat Summit

Fedora

=> ↺ Fedora 23 Astronomy Spin Proposed for Amateur and Professional Astronomers

• After proposing Frappe Web framework, two-week Fedora Atomic Host releases, system firmware updates for UEFI, default local DNS resolver, and SELinux policy store migration, Jan Kurik comes today, June 26, with the proposal of a Fedora Astronomy Spin.

=> ↺ Atomic Host Red Hat Summit Lab

=> ↺ hitch-1.0.0-beta3 for Fedora and EPEL

• Varnish is a high-performance HTTP accelerator, widely used over the Internet. To use varnish with https, it is often fronted by other general http/proxy servers like nginx or apache, though a more specific proxy-only high-performance tool would be preferable. So they looked at stud.

• hitch is a fork of stud. The fork is maintained by the Varnish development team. stud seems abandoned by its creators, after the project was taken over by Google, with no new commits after 2012. The varnish developers have tried to contact the old stud upstream without success, so they forked and took up development again.

=> ↺ Rpm packages test building easy shortcuts

• This is a post oriented to Fedora, Centos and RedHat distributions, although, most of the info is valid for any RPM distribution, with some minor differences

=> ↺ Release Tools and Infrastructure FAD

• The Release Tools and Infrastructure Fedora Activity Day happened recently at the Red Hat office in Westford, Massachusetts. The goal was to bring our release tooling and processes up to speed with the current and future demands of the Fedora Project. Since there are a ton of moving parts of the Fedora Release Engineering community that need work, many of us split out into groups to tackle various components.

Debian Family

Derivatives

Canonical/Ubuntu

=> ↺ Ubuntu Touch Family Gets Another Device, Meizu MX4, Codename “Arale”

• The Ubuntu Touch family has just received a new member, and the developers will need to take into account the fact that a new platform is out there, in the hands of regular users. It also means that a new code name is needed, and in this case it’s “arale.”

=> ↺ The Reason Why It’s Hard to Buy a Meizu MX4 Ubuntu Edition

• Canonical and Meizu have set up a rather complicated way of getting the new Meizu MX4 Ubuntu Edition, but it’s all done on purpose. Unfortunately, not everyone sees this and this has led to some strange conclusions and comments from the community.

=> ↺ Ubuntu Touch to Receive a LibreOffice Viewer Core App, Calendar Sync Improvements

• On June 26, Canonical’s David Planella sent in his regular report to inform Ubuntu developers and users alike about the work done by Ubuntu Community Team in the week that passed.

=> ↺ Linux updates: Steam OS 2.0, OpenSUSE 42, Ubuntu 15.10 Alpha 1

=> ↺ Ubuntu Linux 15.10 ‘Wily Werewolf’ Alpha 1 now available

• Ubuntu is one of the most popular Linux distributions — arguably the most popular — which is very much deserved. Canonical has taken the complicated and intimidating world of Linux and transformed it into an inviting operating system for the masses. While not as user-friendly as Windows or OS X, Ubuntu is certainly easier to use than Fedora or the dreaded Arch.

Flavours and Variants

=> ↺ Ultimate Edition 4.7 Distro Will be Based on Ubuntu 15.04, Moves to KDE Plasma 5

• TheeMahn, the creator of the Ultimate Edition (formerly Ubuntu Ultimate) GNU/Linux operating system, announced a few days ago that testers are need to test the Beta release of the upcoming Ultimate Edition 4.7 release.

=> ↺ Kubuntu 15.10 Could Be Last Release as Official Ubuntu Flavor

• The first Alpha for Kubuntu 15.10 was made available yesterday, but the announcement itself was overshadowed by a worrying statement from the developers. It looks like the future of Kubuntu, in the greater Ubuntu family, is uncertain.

=> ↺ Kubuntu 15.10 Could Be The End Of The Road

Devices/Embedded

=> ↺ $25 JavaScript-savvy HDMI stick runs Linux

• Marvell unveiled two new Kinoma IoT prototyping mini-PCs, including a “Kinoma HD” stick running Linux and the open source JavaScript 6 KinomaJS framework.

• Marvell successfully launched its Linux-based $99 Kinoma Create JavaScript prototyping device on Indiegogo in March 2014, and sold it retail at $150. In March of this year, the company open sourced the KinomaJS JavaScript framework that runs on the Create, and now it has announced two new IoT-focused Kinoma devices — the FreeRTOS-based Kinoma Element and Linux-based Kinoma HD — with tempting pre-order price tags of $20 and $25, respectively. The devices ship in the fourth quarter.

=> ↺ 96boards goes enterprise?

• 96boards is an idea from Linaro to produce some 32 and 64-bit ARM boards. So far there were two boards released in “consumer” format and few more announced of rumoured. The specification also lists “extended” version which has space for some more components.

=> ↺ AMD Is Working On A Low-Cost, ARM 64-bit Opteron Development Board

=> ↺ ARM Posts Pictures Of AMD’s New Development Board

Phones

Android

=> ↺ The 50 Essential Android Apps

• The Google Play Store has come a long way since its humble beginnings. It’s no longer known solely for apps with viruses in them and illegal emulators—some of the best apps in the world live on the Google Play Store. We’ve put together a list of the apps that we think pretty much everyone needs to have on their Android devices.

=> ↺ FLIR’s thermal camera is out for iOS, Android to follow

• That second-gen FLIR One thermal camera we saw earlier this year is now available for iPhones and iPads, with the Android version shipping in July. If the last time you’ve heard about it was back in 2014, this might come as a surprise, as the first-gen camera was embedded in an iPhone 5/5s case. This one is is a standalone accessory with a built-in battery that attaches to iOS devices via a Lightning connector and to Android phones and tablets via microUSB. It also has an updated thermal camera with four times the resolution of the one inside the first-gen cases.

=> ↺ iPhone 6 On iOS 9 VS Nexus 6 On Android M In Speed Test

=> ↺ Free App Friday: 5 Cool Tools For Your Android Wear Watch

• If you own a smartwatch, put it to work! After all, there’s a fine line between wrist-worn gimmick and ever-accessible information machine. The difference is in the software. Here are some handy-dandy Android Wear apps to get you started.

=> ↺ Google plans to support its Android Studio IDE instead of Eclipse

• To streamline Android development efforts, Google will focus on building tools for Android Studio. The company will also stop supporting other Integrated Development Environments (IDE) at the end of this year, like Eclipse.

=> ↺ DROID Turbo Android 5.1 Lollipop Update: What You Need to Know

• The Verizon Motorola DROID Turbo is still running Android 4.4 KitKat nearly 8 months after it was announced, and the update to Android 5.1 Lollipop has been rumored for months. However, the past few weeks have been promising, and now it looks like Verizon and Motorola are finally ready to deliver the highly anticipated Android 5.1 update for the DROID Turbo.

=> ↺ The 5 best Android and iOS apps of summer 2015

=> ↺ Moto X Pure Edition Finally Receives Android 5.1 Lollipop Update In U.S.

=> ↺ Android 5.1.1 For Galaxy S6 Firmware For Download; Find Out How To install It

=> ↺ Android M For LG G4 May Result In Skipping Android 5.1 Lollipop

=> ↺ Jide Remix Mini Kickstarter campaign coming for $30 Android PC

• The company is now readying a Kickstarter campaign for the Remix Mini, a small box much like a Chromebox that runs the Remix OS. It is aimed at those wanting a cheap system in a tiny form that becomes a desktop system with a monitor, keyboard, and mouse.

Free Software/Open Source

=> ↺ Coreboot Adds Intel Braswell SoC Support

=> ↺ OSI Welcomes Summer Interns

• Recognizing successful open source projects need a variety of “developers” to create everything from code to community, the OSI Internship Program seeks participants from across academic disciplines–Business, Communications, Sociology, Informatics, and of course Computer Science to name a few–the program seeks to provide real life experiences common across open source projects and the communities that support them, giving students first hand experiences as well as opportunities to work with some of the most influential projects and people in open source software and the technology sector.

Events

=> ↺ Jewel – Ceph Developer Summit

• The next (virtual) Ceph Developer Summit is coming.

Web Browsers

Chrome

=> ↺ Google IS listening: Binary blob banished from Chromium build

• New Chromium builds will no longer download/install the Hotword Shared Module and will automatically remove the module on startup if it was previously installed.

SaaS/Big Data

=> ↺ BlueData Massages Data for Hadoop and Spark to Leverage

• BlueData Software Inc., an infrastructure startup focused on Big Data, is working on solutions to the problem. The company recently announced that it is adding support for Docker containers on its BlueData EPIC platform. BlueData was founded by VMware veterans, and is focused on making Hadoop and Spark easy to deploy in a lightweight container environment.

BSD

=> ↺ Open Source History: Why Didn’t BSD Beat Out GNU and Linux?

• If you use a free and open source operating system, it’s almost certainly based on the Linux kernel and GNU software. But these were not the first freely redistributable platforms, nor were they the most professional or widely commercialized. The Berkeley Software Distribution, or BSD, beat GNU/Linux on all of these counts. So why has BSD been consigned to the margins of the open source ecosystem, while GNU/Linux distributions rose to fantastic prominence? Read on for some historical perspective.

=> ↺ out with the old, in with the less

• Notes and thoughts on various OpenBSD replacements and reductions. Existing functionality and programs are frequently rewritten and replaced for the sake of simplicity or security or whatever it is that OpenBSD is all about. This process has been going on for some time, of course, but some recent activity is worth highlighting.

Project Releases

=> ↺ Oz 0.14.0 Release

• Oz is a program for doing automated installation of guest operating systems with limited input from the user.

Public Services/Government

=> ↺ Why the government needs to renew its public commitment to open source software

• The government has played an important role as champion of open source in the public sector and this has been essential to the great progress that has been made to date. As the new government lays out its strategy, it should publicly reaffirm its commitment to open source software. This will add impetus to those in the public sector considering open source if the government acknowledges its value in relation to its agile vision.

=> ↺ NRO jumps on open source bandwagon

• Given the growing need for advanced databases with multiple levels of security to store geospatial intelligence, NRO contractor Lockheed Martin along with partners like Red Hat and Crunchy Data Solutions rolled out an open source relational database at a geospatial intelligence symposium in Washington this week that is billed as supporting multilevel security.

Openness/Sharing

Open Hardware

=> ↺ Introducing Felfil: An Italian Open Source 3D Printing Filament Extruder

• It’s an open source project designed for home use, and Felfil is an extruder for plastic 3D printing filament, designed by a team of young makers from the Politecnico of Turin.

• They say the device was built in answer to a desire by users of 3D printers to produce their own plastic filament. It’s all about reducing the cost of printing, saving on materials, and being able to experience the potential of 3D printing.

Programming

=> ↺ Google creates cloud code cache

• With an uncharacteristic lack of fanfare, Google has decided to hang around the kitchen at the code repository party.

=> ↺ 6 time-consuming tasks you can automate with code

• Literacy used to be the domain of scribes and priests. Then the world became more complicated and demanded that everyone read and write. Computing is also a form of literacy, but having it only understood by a priesthood of programmers is not going to be enough for our complex, online world. “Learn to code” has become a mantra for education at all ages. But after clearing away the hype, why do people need to learn to code? What does it get us exactly?

• Not everyone needs to become a software engineer, but almost every office worker uses a laptop as a daily tool. Computers are such a huge productivity booster because they support a large market of programs and apps designed for these workers. But commercial and open source software have a “last mile” problem: that they don’t automate every conceivable task. There are still computing chores that require a lot of repetitive (and fairly mindless) typing and clicking. Even if you have an intern to push these tasks on, they’re tasks that require a human because there’s no software to automate it. These tasks are too small-scale or specific to your organization’s workflow for it to be economical for a software company to create a custom solution.

=> ↺ libnice is now mirrored on GitHub

• libnice, everyone’s favourite ICE networking library, is now mirrored on GitHub (and GitLab), to make contributing to it easier — just submit a pull request. The canonical git repository is still on freedesktop.org.

Leftovers

Security

=> ↺ Friday’s security updates

Defence/Police/Secrecy/Aggression

=> ↺ Terror Attacks in France, Kuwait and Tunisia

• Friday’s attacks in France, Tunisia and Kuwait came at roughly the same time, and days after the Islamic State terror group called for such operations during the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. But there was no immediate indication that they had been coordinated.

Privacy

=> ↺ Hated Care.data scheme now ‘unachievable’, howls UK.gov watchdog

• The hated Care.data programme is one of four government IT projects progressing so poorly its delivery has been deemed “unachievable”, according to a government watchdog report.

• The scheme has been flagged with the highest “red” risk rating by the Major Projects Authority, along with the NHS choices website, the Health and Social Care Network, and the Ministry of Justice’s National Offender Management Services ICT programme.

• The scheme has encountered serious delays, following an outcry from the public who largely objected to the idea of their personal information being shared with world+dog without their consent.

• So far, 700,000 individuals have requested to opt out of having their data shared with third parties. However, concerns have been raised that the Health and Social Care Information Centre has been unable to implement those objections.

=> ↺ Yet Another Leaker — with the NSA’s French Intercepts

• Wikileaks has published some NSA SIGINT documents describing intercepted French government communications. This seems not be from the Snowden documents. It could be one of the other NSA leakers, or it could be someone else entirely.

• As leaks go, this isn’t much. As I’ve said before, spying on foreign leaders is the kind of thing we want the NSA to do. I’m sure French Intelligence does the same to us.

Internet/Net Neutrality

=> ↺ Europe: The Next Front in the Battle for Net Neutrality

• Americans won big on net neutrality in February, when the FCC voted to adopt new rules that would allow it to rein in the abusive and discriminatory practices of big telecommunications operators, such as blocking or throttling of Internet data, and charging content providers for access to an Internet “fast lane.”

Intellectual Monopolies

Copyrights

=> ↺ Freedom of panorama: what is going on at the EU level?

• It is the so called freedom of panorama, which of course has its roots in a beloved piece of EU legislation, the InfoSoc Directive, more specifically its Article 5(3(h). This provision allows Member States to introduce into their own national copyright laws an exception to the rights of reproduction, communication/making available to the public and distribution to allow “use of works, such as works of architecture or sculpture, made to be located permanently in public places”.

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