Approved the partial reform of the Copyright Act ... - Barrapunto.com

On Friday 14 February, the Council of Ministers approved the partial reform of the Copyright Law. Basically the changes affect the management entities of intellectual property rights, improving ‘the protection of authors address the violations of their rights on the Internet’ and the adaptation of ‘appointment or limit the scope of review content aggregators or search engines on the Internet, recognizing the rights of publishers and authors to be compensated economically news by exploiting their content ‘, but no less important are the revision of the concept of private copying and changing affecting the use of excerpts from works in teaching and research. In different ‘web sites’ has tried to clarify the impact that this reform may have on the Spanish digital panorama (see among many others Meneame, Bandaancha, Engadget, and The Journal 20minutes). In regard to Slashdot, this ‘website’ may be affected by the so-called ‘rate google’ while news aggregator, or at least place where news and content of Spanish news media are linked. We will have to closely monitor developments.