Results for copyright

August 24, 2011

Copyright industry obtains court injunction against BT to block website

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Copyright-Industrie setzt Verfügung gegen BT zur Sperre von Websites durch | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.16_Copyright_Industrie_setzt_Verfuegung_gegen_BT_zur_Sperre _von_Websites_durch?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20110901] In a dangerous precedent, on 28 July 2011, an UK High Court judge ruled that British Telecom (BT), the UK largest ISP, had to prevent its customers from accessing Newzbin 2, a website searching Usenet […]

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April 25, 2007

Free file sharing in the copyright law supported by a Norwegian Party

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The Norwegian Liberal Party (Venstre) passed a resolution on 14 April 2007 to support changes in the copyright law including free file sharing, free sampling and the banning of DRM systems. The resolution proposed by the Young Liberals and supported by Trine Skei Grande, Vice Chairwoman of […]

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March 22, 2017 · Blogs

EU moves one step closer to the world’s worst internet filtering law

In September 2016, the European Commission proposed legislation that would require the constant monitoring and filtering of virtually everything that is uploaded to the internet in Europe. Under the extreme rules proposed by the Commission in the Copyright Directive, uploads to the internet would need to be scanned to assess if any photo, video or […]

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June 28, 2018 · Blogs | Information democracy | Freedom of expression online | Platform regulation

Re-Deconstructing upload filters proposal in the copyright Directive

This week we have published a new analysis of the proposal for upload filters in the Copyright Directive proposal. The paper is a new paragraph-by-paragraph analysis of relevant parts in the text adopted by the Legal Affairs Committee of the European Parliament (JURI Committee). The work complements our first analysis of the initial proposal by […]

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October 8, 2014 · Blogs

UK format shifting and parody copyright laws come into force

On 1 October 2014, new copyright regulations adding exceptions for personal copying, parody, and quotation came into force in the UK. The personal copying exception allows copying of purchased media for private use. This includes format shifting and backups. The exception doesn’t cover making copies for friends, family or making copies of media you do […]

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November 10, 2016 · Blogs

EU Copyright Directive – privatised censorship and filtering of free speech

The European Commission’s proposal on copyright attempts something very ambitious – two different measures that would restrict free speech, squeezed into a single article of a legislative proposal.

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September 11, 2019 · On the ground | Information democracy | Freedom of expression online

The Netherlands, aim for a more ambitious copyright implementation!

All EU Member States are obliged to implement the newly adopted EU Copyright Directive, including its controversial Article 17. But how to interpret it, is up to them. In the Netherlands, there is currently a draft bill, which is unfortunately very disappointing. The government really needs to try much harder to protect the interests of […]

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July 13, 2011

Perspectives of Internet blocking in UK following US model

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Schöne Aussichten für britische Netzsperren nach amerikanischem Vorbild | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.14_Schoene_Aussichten_fuer_britische_Netzperren_nach_amerikanischem_Vorbild?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20110721] During his speech at the Intellect Consumer Electronics conference on 5 July 2011, UK culture minister Ed Vaizey announced that a movement in the States for a voluntary filtering by ISPs would probably bring up changes in UK […]

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November 17, 2010

Macedonia: New copyright law

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Neues Urheberrechtsgesetz in Mazedonien | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2363] Prison sentences of up to five years for copyright infringement are projected in the new Law on Copyright and Related Rights adopted in September 2010 in Macedonia. With this law, which in addition to authors’ and artists’ rights also regulates the rights […]

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February 27, 2013 · Blogs

European copyright scholars: hyperlinking is not public communication

The Swedish Court of Appeal has referred to ECJ (European Court of Justice) a case involving the question of whether publishing a hyperlink to content can be considered a communication to the public and, implicitly, a breach of the creator’s copyright (in case the hyperlink is published without the author’s consent), under the European law. […]

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May 5, 2010

German court decides Google's image search does not infringe copyright

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Google Image Suche verletzt laut BGH keine Urheberrechte | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1907] On 29 April 2010, the German Federal Supreme Court ruled that Google’s image search did not infringe copyright. The ruling comes in a case filed by an artist because, at the introduction of her name, Google’s search engine […]

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March 4, 2019 · Campaigns | Open letters | Information democracy | Freedom of expression online

EDRi calls on MEPs to not rush the vote on the copyright Directive

Today, it came to our attention that the copyright Directive could be voted as soon as next week, during the first Plenary session of the European Parliament. Such a short time-frame can only be explained as an attempt to avoid further debate and the participation of concerned citizens ahead of the vote. We cannot accept […]

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