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February 20, 2019 · Blogs | Campaigns | Information democracy | Freedom of expression online

Upload filters: history and next steps

The proposal for a new copyright Directive was originally aimed at modernising the copyright framework. However, it has fallen short of the initial expectations. Instead, the current proposal for the Directive text forces the implementation of upload filters and brings only minor improvements in other areas. In effect, the proposal could lead to unlawful restrictions […]

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March 7, 2019 · Blogs | Campaigns | Information democracy | Freedom of expression online

Join us in the European Parliament to #SaveYourInternet!

After more than 3 years of debates, the decisive moment to ensure that upload filters are not imposed in the European Union (EU) has arrived. In the following weeks (date to be confirmed), the European Parliament (EP) will be voting on the copyright Directive. In its current form, article 13 of the copyright Directive would […]

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March 28, 2007

General ideas behind a computer game are not copyrighted

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The UK Court of Appeal has ruled that general ideas in a computer game can be copied, in the appeal Nova Productions, producer of Pocket Money computer game, made against two rival companies, Mazooma Games and Bell Fruit Games. Nova Productions had lost its case in first […]

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October 20, 2010

ENDitorial: Irish court rejects music industry demands for three strikes

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ENDitorial: Irisches Gericht lehnt Antrag der Musikindustrie auf Three-Strikes-Regime ab | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2283] On 11 October 2010, Mr. Justice Peter Charleton of the Irish High Court gave judgment in EMI and Others v. UPC , rejecting music industry claims that broadband provider UPC was responsible under Irish law for […]

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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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October 5, 2011

German politician caught in its own two-strike model trap

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Deutscher Politiker tappt in eigene 2-Strikes-Falle | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.19_Deutscher_Politiker_tappt_in_eigene_2-Strikes-Falle?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20111011] Siegfried Kauder, Chairman of the Legal Committee of the German Parliament, who has recently announced a plan to introduce a two strike model for persistent allegedly illegal downloaders, was found himself to infringe copyright. The system proposed by Kauder includes […]

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December 1, 2010

The Pirate Bay founders lost their appeal in the Swedish Appeals Court

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [The Pirate Bay Gründer verlieren im Berufungsverfahren | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2394] Peter Sunde, Carl Lundström and Fredrik Neij, who, in April 2009, were found guilty of copyright infringement through their file-sharing website, The Pirate Bay (TPB), have recently lost their appeal in Svea Court of Appeal. Although the court has […]

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June 7, 2006

Private copy system under scrutiny

The issue of the private copy remuneration system is becoming a subject of debate for interest groups from all over the world. L’AEPO-ARTIS grouping 27 associations of artists of Europe, the International Federation of Musicians and the International Federation of Actors took a stand in the support of the present private copy levy system. According […]

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August 2, 2006

The French copyright law changed by the Constitutional Council

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) The French Constitutional Council ruled on the most controversial copyright and related rights law, known as DADVSI law, concluding that some provisions of the law “violated the constitutional protections of property”. The Council has considered as unconstitutional several provisions adopted by the French Parliament that were meant […]

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September 13, 2006

Russian copyright law gets tougher

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) New changes in the Russian copyright law entered into force on 1 September 2006, giving the same legal regime to the electronic documents as to the traditional ones. The new provisions were adopted by the Russian Duma in 2004, but their application was delayed in order to […]

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December 21, 2017 · Blogs

Holiday must reads – our best of 2017

The year 2017 has been a busy one. We’ve been fighting the censorship machine, supporting the adoption of a strong ePrivacy Regulation, working towards a balanced approach to law enforcement online and defending data protection in the context of trade negotiations. We also published 221 articles on our website – to sum up the most […]

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February 29, 2012

More ISP blocking in different EU countries

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Neue Netzsperren in immer mehr EU-Ländern | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_10.4_Neue_Netzsperren_in_immer_mehr_EU-Laendern?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20120229] More and more cases were won in court by rightsholders against file-sharing platforms in the past weeks, but the blocking habits of the ISPs are starting to show their limits. The UK High Court ruled on 20 February 2012 that […]

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