EDRi-gram 12.20, 22 October 2014
From edri.org
- Google pushes forward with its voluntary pro-copyright policing
- EU Parliament promises a better document register
- Macedonian investigative magazine fined in defamation case
- France to follow Turkey's lead on lawless Internet censorship
- Web-blocking in Austria – law with the law taken out
- Balancing rights (unless we are talking about copyright)
- ENDitorial: Malmström – Always there to protect US
Recommended reading
- Ep. 3: Early Copyright History
- Munich Court Asks CJEU About Injunctions Against Operators of Open WiFis (13.10.2014)
- Italian consumers shouldn’t have to pay for software they don’t want – Letter to Regulators
- Common Sense For Copyright - proposing amendments (only in Finnish, 22.10.2014)
Recommended action
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Donate bitcoins to EDRi!
EDRi needs your support to keep our network and the Brussels office running. We now accept donations also via bitcoin!https://edri.org/donate/ -
Nominate your Freedom of Expression Awards 2015 candidate!
The Freedom of Expression Awards honour the word’s most remarkable fighters for free expression: Who will it be in 2015?http://www.indexoncensorship.org/index-freedom-expression-awards-2015/ -
Fight surveillance!
Tell by tweeting how you fight mass surveillance!https://www.ifightsurveillance.org/en
Agenda
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24.10.2014 Open Scraper Challenge 2014
Žilina, Slovakia -
25.10.2014 Keine Macht Spionen – Big Brother Awards 2014
Vienna, Austria -
29.10.2014 DEMOSEC: Democracy and Security
Brussels, Belgium -
04.11.2014 Democracia en Red y Tecnopolítica
Barcelona, Spain -
05.11.2014 FCF Forum Lab
Barcelona, Spain -
06.11.2014 The International CopyCamp Conference 2014
Warsaw, Poland