Monday, June 11, 2012

MS and privacy: data on people’s online behaviour are worth both paying for and arguing over

The Economist, here

Libraries 2020: Imagining the library of the (not too distant) future

K. Purcell, here (slide 52 ff.). 

Google: Writing a new chapter for French books

Googlepolicyeurope.blogspot.com, here

A Conundrum of Permissions: Installing Applications on an Android Smartphone

P. Gage Kelley, S.  Consolvo, L. Faith Cranor, J. Jung, N. Sadeh, D. Wetherall, here

Pharmaceutical prices under regulation: Tiered copayments and reference pricing in Germany

A. Herr, M. Suppliet, here

Curing the Problem of Software Patents

M. Risch, here

Anti-Piracy Patent Stops Students From Sharing Textbooks

TorrentFreak, here

OFT’s Proposed Reforms Fall Short of Ensuring Independence in Antitrust Decision Making

B. Lyons, here

Piratenpartei CH zur Modernisierung des Urheberrechts

Positionspapier, hier

Argentina takes steps towards open access law

Scidev.net, here

Wasserpreise: Flucht ins Trockene

Faz.net, hier

Antitrust enforcement: Challenges old and new

J. Almunia, here