Results for copyright

May 7, 2014 · Blogs

Copyright meets broadcasting in Geneva

The 27th session of the World Intellectual Property Organization´s Standing Committee on Copyright and Related Rights (SCCR) took place from 28 April to 2 May in Geneva. The Committee assessed the proposal for a Broadcasting Treaty. This initiative for a new binding global copyright treaty has been discussed at WIPO for over 10 years at […]

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November 20, 2018 · Open letters | Information democracy | Equal access to the internet | Freedom of expression online | Platform regulation

Letter to the EU Council: Stand for citizen’s rights and the European digital economy in the copyright negotiations!

On 19 November 2018, EDRi, together with 53 other NGOs, sent a letter to the Council of the European Union. The letter draws attention to the ongoing concerns regarding the proposal on copyright in the Digital Single Market, ahead of a crucial meeting on 23 November.

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October 22, 2014 · Blogs

Balancing rights (unless we are talking about copyright)

Recently Google was asked (spiced up with a threat of a 100 million dollar lawsuit) by an attorney representing “over a dozen” celebrities to take down pictures of his clients which had been hacked from their respective iCloud accounts and published in different websites. Google quickly reacted removing those pictures from its blogging and social […]

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February 25, 2015 · Blogs

European Parliament failing to support copyright reform

Everyone is talking about EU copyright reform. However, in the European Parliament, everyone is having the same discussions on enforcement that they were having ten years ago – and talking about stopping any reform. The Draft Report “Towards a renewed consensus on the enforcement of Intellectual Property Rights: An EU Action Plan” (2014/2151(INI)) presented by […]

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September 10, 2003

New report finds problems with EU copyright law

European citizens could find many common activities banned as the EU Copyright Directive becomes law, a new report reveals. Transferring songs from a copy-protected CD to a Walkman or computer could be illegal, as could watching a DVD on a computer running Linux. ‘Implementing the EU Copyright Directive’, published 8 September 2003, reports on legal […]

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October 6, 2010

YouTube won a case against copyright infringement accusations in Spain

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [YouTube in Spanien vom Vorwurf der Urheberrechtsverletzung freigesprochen | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2249] Google has won a battle against Spanish broadcaster Telecinco which brought the company to court in June 2008 claiming that the company’s service YouTube was liable for the copyrighted material posted by its users. Spanish Commercial Court no.7 […]

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July 23, 2018 · Blogs | Information democracy | Freedom of expression online

EP Plenary on the Copyright Directive – Who voted what?

Many of you have been wondering who voted for and who voted against JURI's mandate to enter into negotiations with the EU Council on the Copyright Directive on 5 July.

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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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June 16, 2015 · Blogs

Press Release: European Parliament shows little ambition on copyright reform

The European Parliament’s Legal Affairs Committee approved on 16 June, with 23 votes in favour and 2 against, a non-legislative “Report on the implementation of Directive 2001/29/EC on the harmonisation of certain aspects of copyright and related rights in the information society(2014/2256(INI)), the so-called InfoSoc Directive. This Report covers how the InfoSoc Directive, one of […]

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July 18, 2007

New draft Copyright Act voted by the German deputies

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The second draft of the Copyright Act for the Information Society, including amendments proposed by the legal committee of the Parliament, was voted on 5 July by the majority of the German Bundestag and sent to Bundersrat for review. Although Brigitte Zypries (SPD), the Minister of Justice, […]

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January 21, 2019 · Blogs | Information democracy | Freedom of expression online

Copyright negotiations begin to derail

The negotiations on the EU’s highly controversial Copyright Directive proposal continue. The last trilogue meeting between Commission, Council and Parliament was originally scheduled for today, 21 January 2019. The event was, however, called off on late Friday evening 18 January by the Romanian Presidency of the EU Council. It has become increasingly clear that the manifest problems […]

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April 21, 2010

Dutch copyright working group strikes deep packet inspection

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Niederländische ARGE Urheberrecht lässt Deep Packet Inspection fallen | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1868] Last year, a Dutch parliamentary working group on copyright published a heavily contested report on the future of copyright. It advised rendering the downloading of copyrighted content without the permission of the copyright holder illegal. The working group […]

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