Results for copyright

February 7, 2018 · Blogs | Information democracy | Privacy and data protection | Freedom of expression online | Surveillance and data retention | Transparency

Smashing the law without breaking it: A Commission guide

How to create a general monitoring obligation without creating a general monitoring obligation? That is the question that the Commission has been trying to answer with the Article 13 of its “Proposal for a Directive on Copyright in the Digital Single Market”. It aims at solving the issue of a so-called “value gap”, that is […]

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September 9, 2009 · Blogs

Consultation on how to operate EU's digital library

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Beratungen darüber, wie die digitale Bibliothek der EU geführt werden soll | http://www.unwatched.org/node/1514] The European Commission launched a consultation on 28 August 2009 on EU’s digital library project Europeana, set up in November 2008, in order to find the best way to make the project work. Differently from […]

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May 30, 2018 · Blogs | Campaigns | Information democracy | Freedom of expression online | Online tracking industry / AdTech

Join the coordinated calls against EU’s Censorship Machine

Several organisations in different European countries have picked up their phones and mobilised against article 13 of the copyright Directive.

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July 11, 2018 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Surveillance and data retention

Danish High Court ruling on data retention use and file sharing cases

On 7 May 2018, the Eastern High Court in Denmark delivered a ruling that internet service providers (ISPs) are not required to disclose subscriber information in file sharing cases.

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September 21, 2011

New rules on term of protection of music recordings

This article is also available in: Deutsch: [Neue Schutzfristen für Tonaufnahmen | http://www.unwatched.org/EDRigram_9.18_Neue_Schutzfristen_fuer_Tonaufnahmen?pk_campaign=edri&pk_kwd=20111004] On 12 September 2011, the Council adopted, by a qualified majority, a Directive that extends the term of protection of the rights of performers and phonogram producers on music recordings from 50 to 70 years. According to the Council press release, the […]

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June 6, 2007

CSS protection used in DVDs is "ineffective"

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) In an unanimous decision on 25 May 2007, the Helsinki District Court ruled that Content Scrambling System (CSS) used in DVD movies is “ineffective”. The decision is the first in Europe to interpret new copyright law amendments, based on EU Copyright Directive of 2001, that bans the […]

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June 4, 2008

BitTorrent tracker sites threatened by draft ACTA agreement

(Dieser Artikel ist auch in deutscher Sprache verfügbar) A new international trade agreement, the Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement (ACTA), which is now under discussion might strengthen criminal sanctions against BitTorrent tracker sites for exploiting copyright material online. The tracker sites state they do not profit from Internet users sharing music, movies and software, saying that the […]

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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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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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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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January 10, 2018 · Blogs | Privacy and data protection | Data protection standards

Commission claims that general monitoring is not general monitoring

Will everything we do on the internet be monitored and checked against by a non-transparent mechanism that decides what can be published? It is a real threat, and currently it is coming from an area that patently does not require such draconian measures: EU copyright law. This threat is a peculiar one, because there are […]

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