April 9, 2008

EDRi joins European NGOs in asking ECJ to annul data retention directive

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) European Digital Rights (EDRi) has joined other 42 civil liberties NGOs and professional associations in signing the amicus curiae brief initiated by German NGO Working Group on Data Retention (Arbeitskreis Vorratsdatenspeicherung). The action is destined to the European Court of Justice (ECJ) in relation to the action […]

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April 26, 2006

European Data Protection Supervisor presents annual report

European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) 2005 annual report was presented on the 19 April . As stated by the report, following the first year of setting up the new independent authority on protecting personal data and privacy, 2005 was a year of consolidation confirming its main activities: supervision, consultation and cooperation. The authority increased its […]

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April 12, 2007

ENDitorial – About EFF Europe

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) As some of our readers already know, the biggest digital civil rights NGO from the United States has opened this year a new office in Brussels to work with EU policy issues. EFF’s new European Affairs Coordinator, Erik Josefsson, was previously the president of the Swedish chapter […]

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April 25, 2007

IPRED2 voted in first reading by the European Parliament

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The Intellectual Property Rights Enforcement Directive (IPRED2), with the changes made by a report produced by Nicola Zingaretti (PES), was voted by the European Parliament in its first reading today with a vote a 374 in favour, 278 against and 17 abstentions. Unfortunately, the suggestions from an […]

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November 18, 2009

EDPS Seminar: Responding to data breaches

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Seminar des Europäischen Datenschutzbeauftragten: Reaktion auf Datenverletzungen | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1590] On 23 October 2009 the European Data Protection Supervisor (EDPS) and the European Network and Information Security Agency (ENISA) organised a seminar on security breaches. The three sessions focussed on the prevention, the management and the reporting of data […]

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August 28, 2013 · Blogs

New Russian copyright law raises freedom of expression concerns

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ Russland: Neues Copyright-Gesetz lässt Bedenken bezüglich Redefreiheit aufkommen | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.16_Russland_Neues_Copyright-Gesetz_laesst_Bedenken_bezueglich_Redefreiheit_aufkommen?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130828 ] New legislation on online copyright, amending several legislative acts of the Russian Federation on the protection of intellectual property rights in information and telecommunication networks, came into force on 1 August 2013. For the time being, […]

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November 3, 2010 · Blogs

New EDRi members

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Neue EDRi-Mitglieder | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2322] At the EDRi General Assembly of 30 October 2010 in Barcelona, Spain, EDRi welcomed two new members. The Panoptykon Foundation is a Polish organisation focusing on human rights, in particular the right to privacy, in the clash with modern technology used for surveillance purposes. […]

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June 15, 2016 · Blogs

Mobilisation for digital rights

This article is also available in Dutch: https://www.bof.nl/2016/07/11/mobilisatie-voor-digitale-rechten/ In a digital society, digital rights are simply our rights. They are our right to express ourselves freely, our right to a private life, our right to our possessions. But what if digital society fails to realise that our traditional rights and freedoms cannot always be defended by […]

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May 10, 2006

Three Spanish courts uphold validity of music free licenses

Spanish courts have upheld three times already the validity of music free licenses. In the three cases, the Sociedad General de Autores (SGAE), Spanish music copyright collecting society, sued some open public premises on alleged rights to the music listened therein. In all the three cases, the defences demonstrated that the music played was downloaded […]

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November 3, 2010

Free Culture 2010 in Barcelona

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [‘Free Culture’ 2010 in Barcelona | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2327] Barcelona was the capital of free culture at the end of October 2010, with two events – Oxcars and then the Free Culture Forum (FCF) – organized by Exgae for awarding and promoting free culture concepts across Europe and beyond. The […]

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September 26, 2012

European Parliament steps back from promoting ISP liability

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Europäisches Parlament distanziert sich von der Providerhaftung | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.18_Europaeisches_Parlament_distanziert_sich_von_der_Providerhaftung?pk_campaign=twun&pk_kwd=20121008] On 11 September 2012, the European Parliament voted on an own-initiative report of Mr Jean-Marie Cavada (EPP, France) on the online distribution of audiovisual works. As we reported in the EDRi-gram after the vote in the leading Committee, the […]

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September 26, 2012

Ancillary copyright madness in Germany and France

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Leistungsschutzwahn in Deutschland und Frankreich | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.18_Leistungsschutzwahn_in_Deutschland_und_Frankreich?pk_campaign=twun&pk_kwd=20121008] On 29 August 2012, the German government decided to pass a draft legislative proposal for ancillary copyright (so-called “Leistungsschutzrecht”) aimed at “protecting” publishing houses’ online content from being quoted in news aggregation sites and on search engines. This draft law would […]

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