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Who cares if Taylor Swift gets paid? Not many

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Taylor Swift is quickly becoming the lynchpin of the debate concerning streaming royalties. The issue of fair payment for artists and labels is a subject of much consternation in an industry that is increasingly shifting towards streaming models of consumption. The issue was brought to much wider public attention...

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How EU data protection law could interfere with targeted ads

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imageBusinesses say data protection sacrifices the cloud advantage for security.cloud by Maksim Kabakou/shutterstock.com

The successor to the 20-year-old European data protection directive has inched closer to becoming law, having been approved by the Council of Ministers, which represents each of the 28 EU member states. This has led to howls of...

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  3. Solar fuels: how planes and cars could be powered by the sun
  4. Does Inside Out accurately capture the mind of an 11-year-old girl? A child psychologist weighs in
  5. The ground exhales: reducing agriculture's greenhouse gas emissions
  6. Should female faculty get bonus points to correct for gender bias in student evaluations?
  7. I Stand With Peter Singer
  8. There are better ways to combat piracy than blocking websites
  9. Sculpture by the Sea is thriving – on the coast of Denmark
  10. How much does wind energy cost? Debunking the myths
  11. Is space tourism travelling faster than space law?
  12. Will head transplants create an entirely new person?
  13. Helping people with type 1 diabetes exercise safely – new findings
  14. First Hispanic poet laureate Juan Felipe Herrera signals a new direction for US literature
  15. Scrapping maintenance grants would be final nail in coffin of publicly funded higher education
  16. Trading away our rights? Spare a thought for the countries excluded from TTIP
  17. Even the pope gets it – carbon markets won't fix the climate
  18. In for a penny: how Poundland conquered British high streets
  19. NSW budget: new infrastructure but a missed chance to fix stamp duty
  20. Why parole for Oscar Pistorius is perfectly legitimate
  21. What Mozambique can do to achieve rapid economic and social progress
  22. The plan to make Johannesburg home to a digital revolution
  23. Being seen as well as heard can transform children's lives
  24. Failure to set up affordable cervical cancer tests costs South Africa
  25. The politics of paralysis: What the Fed and Iraq have in common
  26. The lies of happiness: living with affluenza but without fulfilment
  27. End-of-life care: no, we don't all want 'whatever it takes' to prolong life
  28. If you don't like looking at wind farms, why not build them at sea?
  29. Larrikin carnival: an Australian style of cultural subversion
  30. Amazon shows Google tax can work, despite arguments against it
  31. No gimmicks: technology in schools must serve a purpose
  32. Syria's refugees: time to get serious about preventing a lost generation of Arab Youth
  33. More opportunity with less help: down the benefits rabbit hole with David Cameron
  34. The unexpected creativity that thrives in refugee camps
  35. Jaw-bone discovery reveals more about secret sex lives of Neanderthals and early humans
  36. I wouldn't have moved against Gillard without Shorten's support: Rudd
  37. How Latin America dropped the ball at the Women's World Cup
  38. Tsipras’s choice: trigger a Grexit or break up Syriza
  39. Poor fitness – not obesity – is the greater threat to child health
  40. Greece woes show how the politics of debt failed Europe
  41. How weaponising the body's immune system can deliver a cure for cancer
  42. Maggi-gate: why India must face up to a bigger problem than instant noodles
  43. Uber drivers stuck in legal limbo as US labor laws fail to keep up
  44. Plasmonics: revolutionizing light-based technologies via electron oscillations in metals
  45. How should kids learn English: through Old MacDonald’s farm or Ali Baba’s farm?
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