Results for copyright

March 9, 2022 · Blogs | On the ground | Open internet and inclusive technology | Equal access to the internet | Inclusive technologies

Music industry against Uberspace: Video downloads are not copyright infringements!

EDRi's member Gesellschaft für Freiheitsrechte fights against the music industry's attempts to put a digital lock on open source software, that enable media, human rights defenders, archivists and many others to access essential content.

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April 26, 2016 · Blogs | Information democracy | Transparency

#ReadAnneDiary (if you can)

The chaotic and outdated copyright framework in the European Union (EU) negatively impacts citizens by placing absurd restrictions on use of cultural goods. These restrictions benefit neither authors nor  society in general. The European Commission (EC), in its quest to achieve a Digital Single Market, is aiming at reforming the situation and is trying to […]

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October 5, 2016 · Blogs

ENDitorial: It is possible that Netflix is legal in Ireland – or not

Perhaps it should come as a surprise that copyrighted data are protected in law more rigorously than personal data in Europe. In data protection law, there is a “legitimate interest” exception: if you are processing personal data because you have a “legitimate interest” in doing so, and if this does not undermine the rights of […]

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July 12, 2016 · Blogs

UEFA: 1, Right to remix: 0 – Viral video gets blocked

The idea was so simple and yet so genius. After the dramatic Euro 2016 quarter finals between Italy and Germany, the web-artist Kurt Prödel had a wonderful idea: he created a 14-second video, which showed all penalties by the German team simultaneously. In the video, all players are running simultaneously towards the Italian goalkeeper who, […]

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March 6, 2018 · Campaigns | Freedom of expression online | Inclusive technologies | Platform regulation

European policy makers want faulty filters to rule the internet: Your action is needed!

Policy makers are working on the largest internet filter we’ve ever seen. A filter will decide which of your uploads will be seen by the rest of the world and which won’t. But these filters often fail. Member of the European Parliament (MEP) Julia Reda published some examples of where filters got it wrong. Here […]

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April 4, 2018 · Blogs | Information democracy | Open internet and inclusive technology | Freedom of expression online | Platform regulation

Modern Poland Foundation: protecting access to culture and knowledge

In this blogpost published on the occasion of the 15th anniversary of EDRi we present our member Modern Poland Foundation.

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June 30, 2016 · Blogs

Copyfail #6: The “Google tax”- not a tax and Google doesn’t pay

This article is the sixth in the series presenting Copyfails. The EU is reforming its copyright rules. We want to introduce you to the main failures of the current copyright system, with suggestions on how to fix them. You can find all the Copyfails here. How has it failed? Germany and Spain introduced in their […]

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October 17, 2017 · Blogs | Information democracy | Data protection standards | Freedom of expression online

EU Council legal services unclear about censorship filters

On 16 October 2017, Politico leaked the response from the Legal Services of the Council of the European Union (CLS) to the questions raised by six member states about the legality of the upload filter proposal in the Article 13 of the Copyright Directive proposal. As the censorship filter is about restricting fundamental rights, it […]

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October 31, 2017 · Blogs | Information democracy | Platform regulation | Privacy and confidentiality

Portugal bans use of DRM that limits access to public domain works

With the tendency of becoming too accustomed to bad news on copyright, it is refreshing to hear that Portugal has recently passed a law that helps to strike a fairer balance between users and copyright holders on digital rights management (DRM). The law does not abolish legal protection for DRM altogether – unfortunately, that would […]

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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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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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October 10, 2018 · Blogs | Information democracy | Alternatives to dominant digital services | Freedom of expression online

What’s next for Europe’s internet censorship plan?

Existing copyright filters (like YouTube's ContentID system) are set up to block people who attract too many copyright complaints, but what about people who make false copyright claims? The platforms must be allowed to terminate access to the copyright filter system for those who repeatedly make false or inaccurate claims about which copyright works are theirs.

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