EU sets Google book hearing
The European Commission is to hold a hearing on 7 September for interested parties to comment on Google's deal with publishers to make millions of books available online and its impact on EU writers' rights, reports Reuters.
"Participants were invited to it three weeks ago," Commission spokesman Oliver Drewes said of the 7 September hearing.
The European Union executive had said in May it would study Google's book deal after Germany complained the company had scanned books from US libraries to create its Google Books database without prior consent of rights holders.
MS releases code under GPL
Microsoft will release more than 20 000 lines of code under the General Public Licence (GPL), states Computing.co.uk.
The code includes three Linux device drivers and is designed to help Linux users running virtualised operating systems on Windows Server 2008 Hyper-V or Windows Server 2008 R2 Hyper-V.
"Many people are surprised when they hear how much open source community and development work is happening across Microsoft," said Sam Ramji, senior director of platform strategy at Microsoft.
Univision wins Internet rights ruling
A federal judge in Los Angeles has ruled in favour of Univision in a lawsuit with Televisa over US rights to stream Televisa television program on the Internet, says RBR.com.
That issue had been separated from the settlement months ago of a lawsuit over TV broadcast rights, which retained Univision's rights to Televisa programming through 2017.
The parties had agreed to have the case decided by a judge acting without a jury.
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