Results for copyright

August 25, 2004

Call for participation: data retention and copyright

The deadline is nearing for two important consultation rounds from the European Commission, on mandatory data retention and on copyright. European Digital Rights is working hard on a thorough answer on the EU plans for mandatory retention of all internet and telephony traffic data. The document will be made publicly available on the EDRI website, […]

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May 7, 2014 · Blogs

ISDS threatens privacy and reform of copyright and patent law

On 3 December 2013, the Dutch Parliament requested the government to investigate the potential social and environmental risks and the consequences of investor-to-state dispute settlement (ISDS) and the consequences of ISDS for the Netherlands as well as the financial risks for the Dutch government. On 17 April 2014 companies and civil society organisations met at […]

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March 23, 2016 · Blogs

Lots to like in Advocate General’s opinion on free WiFi & copyright

Last week, Advocate General Szpunar published his opinion in the McFadden-case before the Court of Justice of the European Union (CJEU). The facts of the case In 2010, Berlin businessman Tobias McFadden was offering free, non-password protected WiFi to his customers. Sony Music claimed that the network was being used to infringe their copyrighted material, […]

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July 5, 2006

New French copyright law gives Apple satisfaction

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The most controversial DADVSI Law, now colloquially known also as “iTunes Law”, was finally adopted in the French Parliament with a compromise allowing Apple to continue operating as before. The law was adopted by the Parliament under emergency regime, which ended with a mixed commission, normally made […]

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July 16, 2008

Copiepresse attacks EC for copyright infringement, but gets dismissed

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The Belgium newspaper Association Copiepresse has initiated a legal complaint against the European Commission (EC) arguing that it infringes its copyright through the NewsBrief and NewsExplorer aggregation services. Copiepresse became famous for its copyright suit against Google and other search engines claiming copyright infringement over the aggregation […]

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October 8, 2008

RapidShare needs to check every file for copyright infringement

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) A Hamburg court in Germany has ruled that the free file-hosting service RapidShare.de is not doing enough to combat piracy, so they should check content for copyright infringement before it is made available on the Internet . The decision was given in the legal conflict between RapidShare […]

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July 29, 2009

Russian copyright law will apply to news reports

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Russisches Urheberrechtsgesetz wird für Nachrichtenberichte gelten | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1486] A new modification in the Russian copyright legislation was drafted by the Government in order to extend the protection to news reports. The new draft was pushed by the biggest Russian news agencies which were claiming that other regional and […]

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June 30, 2010

ACTA – new criminal sanctions for non-commercial copyright uses?

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ACTA – Neue Sanktionen für die nicht-gewerbliche Nutzung von Urheberrechten? | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2033] A new round of negotiations on the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA) is in progress until 1 July 2010 at Luzern, Switzerland between 11 parties including the EU. A document leaked from the EU Presidency dated 7 […]

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June 20, 2012

Spanish Supreme Court says Google is not breaching copyright

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Spanien: Google verstößt nicht gegen Urheberrecht | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.12_Spanien_Google_verstoesst_nicht_gegen_Urheberrecht?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120620] The Spanish Supreme Court ruled on 3 April 2012 that Google was not in breach of copyright with its browser and cache services. The ruling was given in a case filed in 2006 by the owner of a web page […]

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February 13, 2013 · Blogs

Ancillary copyright law under discussion in Germany

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Deutschland: Debatte um Leistungsschutzrecht | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.3_Deutschland_Debatte_um_Leistungsschutzrecht?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130224] The Judiciary Committee of the German Bundestag held on 30 January 2013 an expert hearing on the proposed “Leistungsschutzrecht” (LRS, known also as “ancillary copyright”) law for news publishers which will require search engines and others to ask permission from news publishers […]

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August 28, 2013 · Blogs

"Right to Remix": Initiative for a European Copyright Reform

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [“Right to Remix”: Initiative für eine Reform des Urheberrechts in Europa | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_11.16_Right_to_Remix_Initiative_fuer_eine_Reform_des_Urheberrechts_in_Europa?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20130828] On its website right2remix.org, the German civil rights organisation EDRi member Digitale Gesellschaft e. V. calls on European policy-makers to adopt remix rights in the European copyright legislation and invites everyone to submit a link […]

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February 21, 2018 · Blogs | Information democracy | Freedom of expression online

Copyright reform: The Bulgarian Presidency strikes back

Article 13 is a key issue in the discussions on the “Proposal for a Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market” that have been going on since 2016. It proposes requiring services that store content on the internet for users to “take measures, such as content recognition technologies, aimed at preventing the upload of […]

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