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EDRi is the biggest European network defending rights and freedoms online. We work to to challenge private and state actors who abuse their power to control or manipulate the public. We do so by advocating for robust and enforced laws, informing and mobilising people, promoting a healthy and accountable technology market, and building a movement of organisations and individuals committed to digital rights and freedoms in a connected world.
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France: Update on website blocking without a judicial decision
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Frankreich: Update zur Sperre von Webseiten ohne Gerichtsbeschluss | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.15_Frankreich_Update_zur_Sperre_von_Webseiten_ohne_Gerichtsbeschluss?pk_campaign=twun&pk_kwd=20120801] Fleur Pellerin, the French State Secretary for Digital Economy announced on 24 July 2012 the intention of the French Government to give up the Decree on the application of a very controversial Article of LOPPSI 2 law which […]
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Reporters Sans Frontières follows on the Wikileaks footsteps
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Reporter ohne Grenzen treten in die Fußstapfen von WikiLeaks | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.15_Reporter_ohne_Grenzen_treten_in_die_Fu%C3%9Fstapfen_von_WikiLeaks?pk_campaign=twun&pk_kwd=20120801] Reporters Sans Frontières (RSF) is looking to take the Wikileaks path and will start accepting the publication of censured documents in October 2012 on a new dedicated platform. Called “We Fight Censorship”, the RSF platform will distribute […]
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Is CETA introducing ACTA through the back door?
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Kommt ACTA mit CETA durch die Hintertür? | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.14_Kommt_ACTA_mit_CETA_durch_die_Hintertuer?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120718] The European Parliament rejected ACTA with a large majority on 4 July 2012, but just one week later the EU is accused of pushing back the rejected agreement through the back door, that is, through CETA, the EU–Canada trade […]
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Russian bill creates blacklist of websites
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Russland: Gesetz zur Einführung von Internet-Sperrlisten | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.14_Russland_Gesetz_zur_Einfuehrung_von_Internet-Sperrlisten?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120718] At the beginning of July 2012, Duma, the lower house of the Russian Parliament, approved in third reading a draft law titled “On the Protection of Children From Information Harmful to Their Health and Development”, allowing the Russian authorities to […]
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EP: Surprises in the online distribution of audiovisual works' report
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [EP: Bericht zum Online-Vertrieb audiovisueller Werke birgt Überraschungen | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.14_EP_Bericht_zum_Online-Vertrieb_audiovisueller_Werke_birgt_Ueberraschungen?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120718] On 10 July 2012, the Culture and Education (CULT) Committee in the European Parliament (EP) voted on the own initiative report of Jean-Marie Cavada (EPP, France) on the online distribution of audiovisual content. The own initiative report follows […]
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French Supreme Court: Important rulings for intermediary liability
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Frankreich: Wichtige Entscheidungen in Sachen Providerhaftung | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.14_Frankreich_Wichtige_Entscheidungen_in_Sachen_Providerhaftung?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120718] On 12 July 2012 the French Supreme Court (Cour de Cassation) issued four important and somewhat contradictory rulings regarding the role of online service providers in policing online copyright infringements. In the first case, SNEP vs. Google France, the Court’s […]
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German Federal Supreme Court rules in the RapidShare case
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Deutscher Bundesgerichtshof: Entscheidung im Fall RapidShare | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.14_Deutscher_Bundesgerichtshof_Entscheidung_im_Fall_RapidShare?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120718] A file-hosting site could be partially liable for the content uploaded by others in Germany. In a case brought to court by video games company Atari which accused file-sharing site RapidShare of unlawfully providing access to one of its games, […]
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EC suggests changes of the music rights management system
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Kommission will Verwaltung von Musikrechten ändern | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.14_Kommission_will_Verwaltung_von_Musikrechten_aendern?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120718] The European Commission (EC) published a draft EU Directive on 11 July 2012 showing the intention to introduce a system of collective rights management to be used for the distribution of music online in the single market. In the EC’s […]
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Ireland: E-voting machines go to scrap after proving unreliable
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Irland: Unzuverlässige E-Voting-Geräte werden verscherbelt | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.14_Irland_Unzuverlaessige_E-Voting-Geraete_werden_verscherbelt?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120718] The e-voting machines that were bought by the Irish Government in 2002 and which were supposed to be used for all elections are now being sold for almost nothing as scrap. The e-voting system was given up two years after the […]
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Banking blockade on Wikileaks broken by the Icelandic court
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Island: Gericht bringt Finanzblockade gegen WikiLeaks zu Fall | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.14_Island_Gericht_bringt_Finanzblockade_gegen_WikiLeaks_zu_Fall?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120718] An Icelandic court has made a step towards unblocking funds towards WikiLeaks by recently ruling that Valitor, the local agent for Visa, broke the contract when it stopped accepting donations for the website a year ago. The ban […]
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ENDitorial: EP and EDPS hit back against lawless “child protection” measures
This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ENDitorial: „Kinderschutz“-Maßnahmen ohne gesetzliche Grundlage – EP und EDSB schlagen zurück | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.14_ENDitorial?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120718] In the EDRi-gram 10.12, we reported on projects of the European Commission to coerce industry into the introduction of “voluntary” upload filters. Following the Scarlet/Sabam case in the European Court of Justice, such filtering would […]
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Article 27 of ACTA
What does “endeavour to promote cooperative efforts within the business community to effectively address” infringements really mean? Article 31 of the Vienna Convention on the Law of Treaties explains that: 1. A treaty shall be interpreted in good faith in accordance with the ordinary meaning to be given to the terms of the treaty in […]
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