On 5th July 2007, the German Bundestag passed the Second Act Governing Copyright in the Information Society ("Second Basket" of copyright law reform). Four years after the first reform, a new balance has been struck between the interests of authors, exploiters, equipment producers and end-users, none of whom are, however, especially happy with the compromise solution....
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Polish author Andrzej Stasiuk's book "Dojczland" is a sophisticated portrait of German-Polish relations with flights of sarcasm and a fine sense of grotesque. Doused heavily in bourbon, it's a controversial bestseller in Poland. By Thomas Urban
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"Quite possibly, as time goes by, we tend to perceive the
'prison of nations', as the Austro-Hungarian Empire was called in those
days, as something like a prototype, albeit an imperfect one, for a
united Europe." Polish author Andrzej Stasiuk wanders through the landscapes of World War One in Eastern Europe.
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