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The EU says people have come to see copyright as a tool of punishment; How to teach computers to recognise over a million sounds; Researchers develop a wearable computer to help you lose weight

The EU says people have come to see copyright as a tool of punishment. Europe's technology chief has criticized the current copyright system. The Digital Agenda Commissioner, Neelie Kroes, believes that the creative industries should embrace rather than resist new technological ways of distributing artistic works. Her spokesperson, Ryan Heath, joins Click to discuss how things might improve.

How do you teach computers to recognise and classify over a million different sounds, often unrecognised and unlabelled before? Click talks to Jay LeBoeuf about sonic search engines. Instead of typing a search term in and seeing a load of returns in text, you could instead play in a sound or tune and it would find you sounds that either match it or resemble it. Jay LeBoeuf discusses how his technology might come to the aid of musicians and filmmakers especially.

Researchers in Pittsburgh believe they have come up with a device to help obese people lose weight. The eButton is a wearable computer with camera and sensors that you pin to your clothes. It then photographs your activities minute by minute, day by day to build up a profile of your lifestyle to help doctors evaluate the best way of helping control your weight. The device also contains an accelerometer and GPS. Click talks to the man leading the eButton team, Mingui Sun, Professor of Neurosurgery and Electrical and Computer Engineering at the Swanson School of Engineering.