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The approval by the European Parliament of the much-discussed European Copyright Directive according to which major internet companies will have to pay to content providers for copyright and related rights, is the right decision. 

AFP - Facebook on Wednesday said it has suspended more than 400 of thousands of applications it has investigated to determine whether people's personal information was being improperly shared.

The Facebook data row surrounding British analytics company Cambridge Analytica has made waves in Romania, after a consultant revealed that the company scouted him to secretly work for Romania's ruling Social Democratic Party in its triumphant 2016 election campaign.

Back in 2014, the European Commission paid the Dutch consulting firm Ecorys 360,000 euros (about $428,000) to research the effect piracy had on sales of copyrighted content. The final report was finished in May 2015, but for some reason it was never published– according to Julia Reda’s blog, the only Pirate in the EU Parliament.

The Bulgarian National Radio is playing music other than pre-war recordings again after hammering out an agreement with the independent rights organization that distributes the bulk of Bulgarian and foreign songs.

The Bulgarian National Radio and copyright organization Musicautor remain at loggerheads over music fees, with officials being cautious in their reaction.

Since January 01, the public radio is barred from playing more than 14 000 000 musical pieces from around the world and plays mostly classical music, jazz and folklore music.

Turkey, this week, has made a radical change in the way it calculates its gross domestic product (GDP), creating a shock effect both regarding its revised results and methodology. 

If you’ve ever attempted to tune in to your on-demand film service while abroad somewhere in the European Union only to discover that your subscription doesn’t work because it’s been blocked, you’ll be happy to know that a new online copyright law currently being examined by the European Parliament could put an end to such troubles.

He is lecturing in Slovenia on November 11 on the occasion of Annual Presidents' Forum at IEDC-Bled School of Management. Joe Peppard is a Professor at ESMT, Germany, where he designs, directs and teaches on customized executive development and intervention programs for customers such as ThyssenKrupp, Bosch, E.ON, and Munich-Re.

Istanbul's Pera Museum has recently opened the new season with two exhibitions, "Katherine Behar: Data's Entry" on the third floor of the museum and "Encounters," which brings together artwork from students at Akdeniz University's Faculty of Fine Arts on the fourth and fifth floors.