Google Open Sources Its Data Interchange Format

A number of readers have noted Google's open sourcing of their internal data interchange format, called Protocol Buffers (here's the code and the doc). Google elevator statement for Protocol Buffers is "a language-neutral, platform-neutral, extensible way of serializing structured data for use in communications protocols, data storage, and more." It's the way data is formatted to move around inside of Google. Betanews spotlights some of Protocol Buffers' contrasts with XML and IDL, with which it is most comparable. Google's blogger claims, "And, yes, it is very fast — at least an order of magnitude faster than XML."

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Copyright infringement (or copyright violation) is the unauthorized use of material that is covered by copyright law, in a manner that violates one of the copyright owner's exclusive rights, such as the right to reproduce or perform the copyrighted work, or to make derivative works.
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* 1 The term "piracy"
* 2 Examples of copyright infringement
* 3 Sample Troll
* 4 Worldwide collaboration to fight copyright infringement
* 5 Legality
o 5.1 The infringement suit in American law
+ 5.1.1 First element: establishing ownership of a valid copyright
+ 5.1.2 Second element: establishing actual copying
+ 5.1.3 Third element: establishing misappropriation
+ 5.1.4 Defenses to infringement
+ 5.1.5 Amendments to the 1976 Copyright Act
o 5.2 British law
+ 5.2.1 Criminal offences
* 6 See also
* 7 References
* 8 External links

[edit] The term "piracy"

The practice of labeling the act of infringement as "piracy" actually predates copyright itself. Even prior to the 1709 enactment of the Statute of Anne, generally recognized as the first copyright law, the Stationers' Company of London in 1557 received a Royal Charter giving the company a monopoly on publication and tasking it with enforcing the charter. Those who violated the charter were labeled pirates as early as 1603.[2]

For electronic and audio-visual media, unauthorized reproduction and distribution is occasionally referred to as piracy or theft (an early reference was made by Alfred Tennyson in the preface to his poem "The Lover's Tale" in 1879 where he mentions that sections of this work "have of late been mercilessly pirated").