Regulation on ‘cross-border portability’ of online content services: Roaming for Netflix or the end of copyright territoriality? CEPS Commentary, 15 February 2016

In a communication to the Parliament and the Council entitled “Towards a modern, more European copyright framework” and dated 9 December 2015,1 the European Commission confirmed its intention to progressively remove the main obstacles to the functioning of the Digital Single Market for copyrighted works. The first step of this long-term plan, which was first announced in Juncker’s Political Guidelines2 and the Communication on “A Digital Single Market strategy for Europe”,3 is a proposal for a regulation aimed at ensuring the so-called ‘cross-border portability’ of online services giving access to content such as music, games, films and sporting events.4 In a nutshell, the proposed regulation seeks to enable consumers with legal access to such online content services in their country of residence to use the same services also when they are in another member state for a limited period of time. On the one hand, this legislative proposal has the full potential to resolve the (limited) issue of portability, which stems from the national dimension of copyright and the persisting territorial licensing and distribution of copyright content.5 On the other hand, as this commentary shows, the ambiguity of certain important provisions in the proposed regulation might affect its scope and effectiveness and contribute to the erosion of the principle of copyright territoriality.

Maastricht 2.0 - Proposed reform of EU sovereign debt rules. Policy Brief #2012/05

The European Union’s regulations governing sovereign debt are based on the principle of equal treatment of all member states. The recommendations we make here concerning changes in European Union sovereign-debt reduction rules take account of national particularities, but are by no means arbitrary in nature. According to the calculations we present here, such reformed regulations would do far more to promote economic growth than would be the case under the Fiscal Compact’s European debt brake. By 2030, real gains in growth will amount to more than 450 billion euros more than the outcome that would presumably be obtained under the European debt brake.

One Approach to the Problem Solution of Specialized Software Development for Subject Search

In the article relevance of system development for subject search using computational linguistics is considered. The basic principles of system functioning are defined. The principle of grammar development for information retrieval from the partially structured text in a natural language is considered. The ranging principle of results of information search is defined.

The ethics of Confucius : the sayings of the master and his disciples upon the conduct of the superior man, /

Appendix: The great principle of Confucius [by Chen Huan Chang]: p. 299-305.

Shades of CORDS in the Kush : the false hope of "unity of effort" in American counterinsurgency /

"Counterinsurgency (COIN) requires an integrated military, political, and economic program best developed by teams that field both civilians and soldiers. These units should operate with some independence but under a coherent command. In Vietnam, after several false starts, the United States developed an effective unified organization, Civil Operations and Revolutionary Development Support (CORDS), to guide the counterinsurgency. CORDS had three components absent from our efforts in Afghanistan today: sufficient personnel (particularly civilian), numerous teams, and a single chain of command that united the separate COIN programs of the disparate American departments at the district, provincial, regional, and national levels. This paper focuses on the third issue and describes the benefits that unity of command at every level would bring to the American war in Afghanistan. The work begins with a brief introduction to counterinsurgency theory, using a population-centric model, and examines how this warfare challenges the United States. It traces the evolution of the Provincial Reconstruction Teams (PRTs) and the country team, describing problems at both levels. Similar efforts in Vietnam are compared, where persistent executive attention finally integrated the government's counterinsurgency campaign under the unified command of the CORDS program. The next section attributes the American tendency towards a segregated response to cultural differences between the primary departments, executive neglect, and societal concepts of war. The paper argues that, in its approach to COIN, the United States has forsaken the military concept of unity of command in favor of 'unity of effort' expressed in multiagency literature. The final sections describe how unified authority would improve our efforts in Afghanistan and propose a model for the future."--P. iii.

Public cooperation in prohibition law enforcement.

Cover title: Public cooperation in law enforcement : business, civic and industrial groups aid in promoting better observance and enforcement of law : a factual outline.

The value and destiny of the individual : the Gifford lectures for 1912 delivered in Edinburgh university /

"The present course of lectures is a continuation ... of the ... previous course, which was published under the title 'The principle of individuality and value.'"--Pref.

Body and soul; or, The method of economy.

"The first volume of ... The principle of wealth creation."

Lectures on the literary history of the Bible /

Lectures originally delivered before the Goodrich Association in Hartford.

Observations on the nature and cure of calculus, sea scurvy, consumption, catarrh, and fever: together with conjectures upon several other subjects of physiology and pathology.

Includes two memoirs (p. 171-252) on the laws and on the principle of irritability, translated by Mr. Woodhouse from the French of Dr. Girtanner. The memoirs appeared originally in Observations sur la physique, sur l'histoire naturelle et sur les arts, 1790, vol. xxxvi, p. 422-440; vol. xxxvii, p. 139-154.

Disquisitions on population : in which the principles of the essay on population by the Rev. T.R. Malthus, are examined and refuted /

Mode of access: Internet.

Why men fight : a method of abolishing the international duel /

"Lectures ... written in 1915, and delivered in the beginning of 1916."--Pref. to London edition.

Kant's principles of politics, including his essay on Perpetual peace. A contribution to political science.

Translator's introduction.- Idea of a universal history from a cosmopolitical point of view.- Principles of political right.- The principle of progress.- Perpetual peace.

Principles of western civilisation,

The close of an era. -- The shifting of the centre of significance in the evolutionary hypothesis. -- The principle of projected efficiency. -- The position in modern thought. -- The phenomenon of western liberalism. -- The problem. -- The ascendency of the present. -- The passing of the present under the control of the future. -- The development of the great antinomy in western history. -- The modern world-conflict. -- Towards the future.

The revision of the state constitution.

--pt. II. City and county government: Home rule for cities, by H. L. McBain. A proposal for a revision of the municipal article, by L. A. Tanzer. Local government and the state constitution, by M. H. Glynn. The city and the state constitution, by J. P. Mitchel. The organization of county government, by G. S. Buck. Regulation of economic and social conditions: Constitutional limitations on governmental powers, by S. McC. Lindsay. The future of the workmen's compensation amendment, by T. I. Parkinson. Labor legislation, by A. I. Elkus. State policy of forest and water-power conservation, by J. G. Agar. Public service commissions and the state constitution, by J. N. Carlisle. Charitable and correctional institutions and public health, by H. Folks. The Constitution and public franchises, by D. F. Wilcox. Report of the meeting.