Tag Archives: European Union
Free Culture topics in News from around the world. February.
Free Culture news around the world: United States: Restating the obvious with facts. The Coverity Scan: 2011 Open Source Integrity Report, which can be found here, highlights how Open Source code is of higher quality than Proprietary software. The average density of defects per one thousand lines of code for Open Source software is 0.64, …
Why students protest ACTA?
Because of everything, the way it was signed (first by not telling anybody interested about it, enforced by big companies, never consulted with anybody representing either internet providers or users or smaller companies, anything, just ‘the big rich ones’), the fact it was a lie from the beginning, that we weren’t the last to sign, then …
ACTA’s EU chief Kader Arif resigns in protest
You may have heard a lot about SOPA and PIPA, legislation proposed by the U.S. congress and senate respectively, to regulate the internet. Fortunately, amid widespread campaigns from the internet community, these proposals have been put on the shelf (for now). Unfortunately, ACTA, an international agreement on intellectual property which would have similarly disastrous effects …
An open internet as an economic and cultural driving force
Last week the longest Italian government fell under the inadequacies of the prime minister and the current economic crisis. Without commenting the actual decadence of the last media emperor in Italy, a new government has been formed to carry out the measures to bring Italy back on a secure track, avoiding it falling out of …
SFC Europe’s response to the EU’s latest Digital Agenda plan
The European Union is an organization that acts for the good of its citizens. Currently they are drafting the next 7 years plan and the digital agenda is one of the most important guidelines to be taken into account while producing this plan. The plan is here. All things considered, the most important points from …
Territorial Licensing
I have developed an amazing product, one which I am sure that everyone in the world would like to have. It’s an internet broadcast video which I will distribute under territorial licensing. Depending on where you live the video may cost you more or less to watch: UK – $3,000, Spain – $500, France – …
Bringing Free Culture to Europe
This site is dedicated to the Students for Free Culture movement in Europe. The aim of the European movement is to organize a conference in Bruxelles February 2012. The goal of the conference will be to raise awareness on Open Source and the Free Market. The conference will also have the aim to produce some …
