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Moody's Microblog Daily Digest 140917 - http://moodysmdd.blogspot.nl/2014/09/140917.html yesterday's tweets as a single Web page #MMDD

CBS Loses Lawsuit Brought By Podcast Patent Troll, But It's Not Over Yet - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140917/13433828554/tv-networks-lose-lawsuit-brought-podcast-patent-troll.shtml really needs stamping out

#Poland's carbon emissions billions to be spent on coal, cutting budget deficit - http://www.euractiv.com/sections/energy/polands-carbon-emissions-billions-be-spent-coal-cutting-budget-deficit-308534 shameful; #tusk clearly a disaster

 Abkommen #TTIP: Widerstand in der SPD gegen Gabriels Freihandels-Kurs - http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/ttip-spd-streitet-ueber-freihandelsabkommen-a-992183.html Gabriel has clearly lost the plot

DGB vollzieht Kehrtwende bei Freihandelsvertrag - http://www.sueddeutsche.de/politik/ttip-dgb-sagt-ja-aber-zu-freihandelsvertrag-1.2134179 they clearly don't understand it, then #TTIP (v @erikwesselius)

ISO/IEC JTC1 Approves #ODF 1.2 PAS Ballot - http://www.robweir.com/blog/2014/09/isoiec-jtc1-approves-odf-1-2-pas-ballot.html ever onward and upward #openstandards

EU's Highest Court Allows Libraries To Digitize Books Without Rightholder's Permission - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140917/11543228553/eus-highest-court-allows-libraries-to-digitize-books-without-rightholders-permission.shtml outbreak of common sense

News Corp labels Google a 'platform 4 piracy' - http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2014/sep/18/google-news-corp-piracy-platform-european-commission?CMP=ema_546 @newscorp: look how you screwed up Delphi, MySpace; you don't get it

Horrific Terror Plot In #AU: Beheadings Of Random Members of Public Planned - http://mashable.com/2014/09/17/massive-raids-as-anti-terrorism-operation-underway-in-australia/  maybe; but convenient timing, no?

Canada’s secretive treaty with China further diminishes aboriginal rights - http://www.bilaterals.org/?canada-s-secretive-treaty-with #FIPA is just awful

MEPs still divided over EU-Canada trade deal - http://www.bilaterals.org/?meps-still-divided-over-eu-canada @XHNews providing better coverage than Western media... #CETA

Approval for #CETA no done deal for European Parliament - http://policyreview.info/articles/news/approval-trade-deal-canada-no-done-deal-european-parliament/324 excellent summary of EP's view on CETA (v @zielwasser)

Only Recording Of The Very First Superbowl Is Because A Fan Recorded It, But You Can't See It, Because #Copyright - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140917/06061528548/only-surviving-recording-very-first-superbowl-is-because-fan-recorded-it-you-cant-see-it-because-copyright.shtml

SimplySecure - Security’s got to be easy and intuitive, or it won’t work - https://simplysecure.org/ interesting, more info needed #opensource

The Really Good Friends of Transnational Corporations Agreement - http://www.world-psi.org/en/psi-special-report-really-good-friends-transnational-corporations-agreement the best intro to horrors of #TISA: do read, pl.

Why are we prosecuting students for sharing knowledge? - https://creativecommons.org/weblog/entry/43746 why indeed? #openaccess

Rigged Rules: A Rogue Corporation in the World Bank’s Rogue Tribunal - http://justinvestment.org/2014/09/rigged-rules-a-rogue-corporation-in-the-world-banks-rogue-tribunal/ more #ISDS injustice #elsalvador

#Turkey announces EU accession strategy - http://www.euractiv.com/sections/enlargement/turkey-announces-eu-accession-strategy-308560 that's a bit of a surprise (well, to me...)

Announcing a Leadership Update at Open Knowledge - http://blog.okfn.org/2014/09/18/announcing-a-leadership-update-at-open-knowledge/

Rupert Murdoch's News Corp: Still Failing To Understand The Internet After 20 Years Of Flops - https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20140918/09421728562/rupert-murdochs-news-corp-still-failing-to-understand-internet-after-20-years-failures.shtml #google #myspace

Why Juncker should backtrack and keep pharma policy in the health portfolio - http://www.euractiv.com/sections/health-consumers/why-juncker-should-backtrack-and-keep-pharma-policy-health-portfolio indeed, awful move #alltrials

 Freihandelsabkommen: Gabriel stemmt sich gegen TTIP-Schlappe - http://www.spiegel.de/politik/deutschland/ttip-gabriel-will-kritisch-ueber-freihandelsabkommen-verhandeln-a-992393.html disappointing #TTIP

#TTIP: „Das ist ein Angriff auf das Grundgesetz“ - http://www.handelsblatt.com/politik/deutschland/freihandelsabkommen-ttip-das-ist-ein-angriff-auf-das-grundgesetz/10719504.html (v @Liese_Mueller)#ISDS

“Scan-to-email” patent troll loses its lawsuit against FTC - http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2014/09/scan-to-email-patent-troll-loses-its-lawsuit-against-ftc/ yay

Larry Ellison steps down as #Oracle CEO, but stays with the company - http://thenextweb.com/insider/2014/09/18/larry-ellison-steps-oracle-ceo-stays-company/ long overdue

Report Brands Dotcom’s Mega a Piracy Haven - http://torrentfreak.com/report-brands-dotcoms-mega-a-piracy-haven-140918/ ridiculously "exact" figures despite poor methodology: "83.7%" riiight