Results for copyright

June 21, 2006

Court rules Dutch mp3 search engine unlawful

The Dutch Court of Appeals in Amsterdam has ruled that search engine zoekmp3.nl is unlawful. This search engine provided links to mp3-files on the World Wide Web. The court chose not to answer the question whether linking itself to unauthorised mp3-files is an infringement of copyright law. The lower court had found that this was […]

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November 16, 2011

ENDitorial: Copyright combinatronics

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [ENDitorial: Urheberrechts-Kombinatorik | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.22_ENDitorial_Urheberrechts_Kombinatorik?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20111116] Although the creation of the single market has been the primary focus of the European Union for decades, it often seems that for every step forward it takes two back. In that respect it’s often rather interesting to look at the mathematics as they […]

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July 5, 2006

Google's victory in court against German publisher

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) Google has just obtained a significant victory against the German publisher Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft (WBG), having asked an injunction in a German court to stop the giant from scanning books in its Books Library project. WBG dropped their case on 28 June after the judge told them they […]

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January 12, 2011

RapidShare wins another alleged copyright infringement case

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [RapidShare gewinnt einen weiteren Fall angeblicher Urheberrechtsverletzung | http://www.unwatched.org/node/2497] RapidShare, the Swiss based file-hosting service, won the appeal against the computer game distributor Atari Europe. In March 2010, Düsseldorf Regional Court ruled that the company had not taken sufficient measures to hinder the distribution of the computer game […]

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December 14, 2011 · Blogs

A fair Internet for all?

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Ein gerechtes Internet für alle? | https://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.24_Ein_gerechtes_Internet_fuer_alle?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20111218] On 1 December 2011, the European Parliament’s European People’s Party (EPP) group presented their strategy paper “A fair Internet for all – Strengthening Our Citizens’ Rights and Securing a Fair Business Environment in the Internet”. In this webstreamed hearing, the MEPs […]

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March 10, 2010

UK Government to decide on the Internet disconnections and web blocking

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [GB-Regierung entscheidet über Internetsperren und Webblockaden | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1757] Discussions continue in the House of Lords over the controversial Digital Economy Bill especially over Internet disconnections (or account suspension, as the UK Government is calling it now) and web blocking. The draft law would give the power to the […]

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March 25, 2009

Irish ISP Association rejects the copyright industry threats

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Irische ISP-Vereinigung weist die Drohungen der Copyrightindustrie ab | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1349] This article is also available in: Macedonian: [Ирската асоцијација на интернет провајдери ги одбива заканите на индустријата за авторски права | http://www.metamorphosis.org.mk/content/view/1418/4/lang,mk/] After several weeks of silence in the the Eircom deal with IRMA (Irish Recorded Music Association), […]

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February 2, 2013

Copyright

The European Union has been repeatedly having discussions for the past twelve years on how to cherish, develop and protect creation in the digital environment. So far, discussions have focussed on enforcement of pre-existing legal norms and the extent to which internet providers should police and even punish their customers. Despite all of these efforts, […]

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October 5, 2005

FIPR campaign against new copyright directive

EDRI-member FIPR (the Foundation for Information Policy Research) has published a strong analysis of the proposed new EU intellectual property enforcement directive. According to FIPR, the proposed new directive is pushed by the UK Presidency, but will undermine basic freedoms. It will force all EU member states to criminalise incitement to infringe patents or copyrights. […]

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November 8, 2006

Danish ISP forced to block Allofmp3.com

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) A Danish court ruled against the Danish ISP Tele2 and ordered to block all access to the site Allofmp3.com. According to the ruling, the ISP is willingly infringing copyright if its customers use AllofMP3 to download music. IFPI Denmark sued the ISP, Tele2, in July 2006. It […]

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November 8, 2006

Fileshares get different treatment in Europe's courts

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) A few interesting decisions regarding the copyright infringement by fileshares have been taken in the last weeks by courts from different states in Europe. Usage of p2p programms has been considered totally different in decisions in Finland, Sweden and Spain. At the end of October 2006, a […]

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April 20, 2011

Dutch government announces measures against downloading

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Niederlande: Regierung kündigt Maßnahmen gegen illegale Downloads an | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.8_Niederlande_Regierung_Ma%C3%9Fnahmen_gegen_illegale_Downloads] On 11 April 2011, the Dutch government published its copyright policy plans for the coming years. The plans include restricting the currently existing private copying exception and the possibility to block access to websites facilitating copyright infringement. EDRi-member […]

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