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Is Copyright Enforcement Censorship?

Harvard Business Review

To stop all the downloading , Wayne's record label must issue takedowns to newalbumreleases and/or RapidShare, which are protected from liability by the DMCA (as long as they are following the safe harbor provisions), and only I and the million downloaders are liable. It's about protecting intellectual property.

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The Great Firewall of America

Harvard Business Review

It contains provisions that will chill innovation. In the midst of protests emerging all around the US complaining about the power that corporations have inside our political system, big content is quite literally trying to foist its own version of the Great Firewall of China on to the American public. So what's in the bill?

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Brexit Could Deepen Europe’s Digital Recession

Harvard Business Review

Brexit, as the British referendum to exit the EU is widely called, has caused turmoil in politics and stocks and head-shaking among the UK’s partners. Also out of reach: a €500 million network of digital innovation hubs and the Digital Agenda for Europe initiative (a €2.8 Innovation Hubs Will Fragment.

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Clinton’s Proposals on Stock Buybacks Don’t Go Far Enough

Harvard Business Review

Yet Icahn has never invested in Apple’s value-creating capabilities that increase innovation and productivity. That said, the safe harbor provision of Rule 10b-18 that currently enables a company to repurchase on any one day up to 25% of its stock’s average daily trading volume over the previous four weeks should be eliminated.